Comments on: Difficulty: Harder than getting rid of your mother-in-law

By: Bramble

Bramble — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:28:44 +0000

I think I’d rather have the roaches than the inlaws…
(And we get the dang fruit flies too, in fact I thought I was having a stroke one day to realize that the little black spots before my eyes were just fruit flies…)

By: Margolis

Margolis — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:39:35 +0000

Great advice, Ivy. Cleaning plus boric acid worked well for us – and boric acid is sooooo cheap.
Amber, I too can never *really* get rid of fruit flies. I refuse to put all my produce in the fridge. When it gets really bad, I make a trap by putting a paper cone in a jar with some cider vinegar at bottom (you could also punch tiny holes in the lid instead of the paper cone). This works OK. My suspicion is that, like those Japanese beetle bags, it actually draws the pests.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:48:15 +0000

I want to know how to get rid of fruit flies… do you know all? If you can give me an idea that works (I’ve tried most everything) then I’ll be indebted to you forever.

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:25:39 +0000

Great information. Thanks.

Now – what can we do to get rid of those pesty fire ants????

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:17:27 +0000

I swear my roaches use boric acid as a recreational substance. I recommend Bayer Advance Home Pest Control.

The big blue bottle was about 20.00 at Lowe’s. The effects last up to 9 months according to the label, but I spray every 6 just to be sure. I like it because I can spray anywhere inside and out and once it dries it’s non-toxic. Gets roaches, crickets, termites, etc.

Depending on where you live, you might need to pull the mulch away from your foundation and spray outside as well.

By: JRae

JRae — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:06:23 +0000

My building has a guy who comes once a month or so and applies this poison gel to any crevices we’ve seen the roaches frequenting (around the kitchen sink and bathroom, usually). They eat the gel, take it back to nests, and die. It seems to work pretty well because it greatly reduced the number of “sightings” we were having- now we only see them once in a blue moon.