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[chirp]

I am going to have to smoke out the little beasts as I cannot stand to cohabitate with them.

Does anyone have any tips or advice about using smoke bombs? Or which sprays are most effective? Specifically with regards to the smoke, do I need to remove all my clothing and bedding from my apartment while it is smoking?

All advice would be appreciated! Thanks

[canuck]

1. Keep your place clean.
2. Move.

[nawlinsgurl]

True. I am about to move because they seem to love our apt. We keep in spotless and spray religiously short of almost killing our dog. I have a few of those big cochroach houses which has helped, combined with U.S. strength pest indoor pest spray. The Japanese bug killer in the white and blue can with a rooster on it, is great for killing almost anything..oh and if you put "Hosan" from the drugstore in wall cracks it helps. (Hosan is just the Japanese chemical name for Boric Acid.) Hope it helps...or do as I plan to....move to a new place!

[illbeback]

SOME OF THESE ROACHES ARE REAL BLOWHARDS. INVEST IN A MIGHTY MALLETT

[Jon Taylor]

[angel1985]

I recommend removing bedding if you're going to roach bomb. Otherwise, be prepared to wash everything afterwards because a) you don't want to be breathing in that nasty dusty stuff afterwards and b) if you have sensitive skin, it can play havoc.

Are large roach populations common to houses in Japan?

[Ai]

[chirp]

Thanks for the advice so far!

Yes, my place is very clean and I live in a new building. I can't speak for my neighbours though. I may just be getting gokiburi visiting from other apartments.

I was going to put all my bedding in plastic - same for my clothes? Should I remove all the food from my kitchen that isn't behind doors that close fairly tightly? And yes, all my food is securely sealed.

I have never used smoke bombs before, so I have no idea how much smoke there is, or what kind of a mess it will leave behind. Could it damage my computer? Sorry if these questions sound silly; I have zero experience with the stuff.

[fluffyhamster]

I recommend keeping a large pile of garbage bags (not in the room you sleep in, though) - that way, the little darlins will have somewhere nice and cosy to hide (=to stay hidden from you, out of your line of sight). I would also recommend keeping something big and heavy (bigger than a mallet!) to drop on any that do make the fatal mistake of scuttling across any open stretches of floorspace (I've found a box of books I'd had takyubined to me, and that are awaiting unpacking, to be ideal for this purpose - not sure that I'll want to reuse the box though LOL).

Oh, and I keep my trusty "roundhouse" kick nice and limber, too - got one once when it was sitting about four feet up on the wall as I was opening the door after returning from work one evening. That, and an aerosol can and a match, and...

Or you could maybe try calling in an exorcist? Oops, I meant pestocist (=exterminator).

[Lyrajean]

Having not lived in Japan -yet, I don't know about gokiburi, but one of the few substances New York City roaches find toxic is Windex glass cleaner. My roomate used to wake up in the middle of the night and spray as many of the little buggers as he could before they scurried for safety. I would find the evidence all over our kitchen counter in the AM.

Having never lived with roaches before I just named the one who hid in my nightstand "Herbie" and let him be the exterminator....

While Windex works well as a murder weapon in individual cases of roach homicide. I don't know how well it works if we're talking roach genocide in your aparto.

[angel1985]

[Sweetsee]

Those little black, plastic, bait traps work real well. Place them behind the fridge and around, should be seeing dead ones about soon after.

[ripslyme]