Best bait: Combat Max 12-Month Roach-Killing Bait - See at Amazon Best overall. A preventive spray, Ortho Home Defense Insect Killer is effective for about three months at keeping roaches and ...

When you want to get rid of roaches for good, you need an aggressive approach, but you could be making a mistake. Learn a ...

The Terro T500 Multi-Surface Roach Baits are little cartridges filled with an insect bait—a mixture of food and a slow-acting poison. The delayed action of the poison increases its overall ...

Best contact spray: Raid Ant & Roach Killer Insecticide Spray - See at Amazon. Best gel: Advion Cockroach Gel Bait - See at Amazon. Best trap: Black Flag Roach Motel Insect Trap - See at Amazon.

So, the poison would still kill them, but they weren’t interested in the oatmeal-cookie bait in the center of the Combat trap. So, roach numbers are slowly going up again.

This is the ideal time to place roach bait stations in dark corners where you’ve seen signs of cockroaches. Hungry roaches aren’t picky about what they eat, even if they’re eating poison.

Place Roach Bait Stations. Spraying for roaches helps to kill the insects where they are, but feeding roaches a steady stream of bait is helpful too. They don’t die immediately, ...

Human attempts to kill cockroaches with sugary poison have had an unintended consequence: It has cramped the bugs' sex lives. But now, some roaches appear to have tweaked the recipe for the sweet ...

And perhaps at first it was, as cockroaches were forced to navigate a “tug-of-war” between poison-survival and sex, says Jessica Ware, an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History.

Traditionally, roach pest management has tried to improve the taste of bitter-tasting poisonous bait by wrapping sweetening-agents around the roach poison. Turns out, roaches have been on to our ...