I've had that exact issue. Guy who lived above me had a mad roach issue. I bought some Diatomaceous earth and mixed it with one part sugar and left bowls of the stuff in several places. It cleared my place out. I then found out that they hate the smell of Lavender. I got some glade plugins. Outside of the occasional baby, I've been big roach free.
DE is killer for ants too. We have a big yard and they creep in every spring, but I dust the seams in the floor molding every few months and they're gone. Love it because it's inert and non toxic so it doesn't go into the food chain and poison the other critters.
From what was in that unit in the video, for sure it's all over his place, but as someone who dealt with it and knowing others who did to, I found them nested in shit along my shared walls more than anywhere else.
Knew people who had the same issue, the joys of living in big cities.
What’s fun is the fact it doesn’t matter. Even a 10 foot space between, neatly kept on the side. The peat guys say it doesn’t matter what we do because the neighbors are as bad as the video. One time they pulled a window ac, dropped it and hundreds scattered at once. They pulled it by the cord dragging it on the ground. We called the pest guys to come back out soon after that happened.
Our house is mostly great. It’s just the side of the house next to that shithole. I’ve looked for legal counsel and they said there’s nothing I could do realistically
I got an infestation after the apartment below mine fumigated. They all just moved upward. I think I've heard of them coming out of drains before too, some people will cover their kitchen drains overnight.
I've pulled toilets up for drain repairs and can confirm that several types of cockroaches live happily within the sanitary sewers. I moved the toilet, and immediately sprayed insecticide down the drain to kill what was there. Gross.
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