Carpets collect crumbs that are usually too small for you or i to notice and furniture can hide lots of specks of food that are perfectly accessible for cockroaches.
Dead roaches in attic.
Storing paper in your attic or closet.
Poison comes in the form of bait dusts and sprays.
These are sweet and have strong scents that will help attract the roaches.
Dusts such as drione and sprays such as raid can cover large areas and do not need to be ingested to take effect.
Floors and counter tops offer roaches more food sources along with more opportunities to attract them.
When the treated roach gets back to its nest and grooms itself it ingests the material and dies.
It can attract and feed hungry roaches.
Boric acid used on insulation is deadly for roaches and other self grooming insects.
The treatment gets on the roach as it crawls around the insulation.
The traps can also give you more proof of how severe the roach infestation is.
Once a cockroach comes in contact with the dust or spray such as crawling over it the cockroaches begin a slow death.
The residual is pretty fair and no worries about the next guy in breathing unwanted pesticides.
Again mix with the fork working the mixture well.
The more the roaches killed by the traps the more severe the infestation is likely to be.
Of course the downfall is it won t get spiders scorpions or other insect eating pests but hey.
Poison the cockroaches in your attic.
These are a good option in case the infestation was in its initial stages.
Liquid or glue traps.