Cockroaches

Well you will get extreme bumps that can be really big. It will also take very long to cure.

You should do your best to eliminate the roaches before you move. A gecko lizard is the best way to eliminate roaches.

Cockroaches lay eggs, so you may be bringing them with you in boxes, furniture and so on. We had an infestation when I was growing up, and my mother made us check everything and scrape the eggs off and that pretty much ended the problem. Make sure you use new boxes, clean everything that is inside when you move.

I have been in the Pest Control business for 18 years. I know a little about cockroaches. The most common roach is the German Roach or Blatella Germanicus. It generally does not lay eggs. Other roaches do but are rarely the ones you find in your home. Instead it carries the egg case or Ootheca through hatching. It will very rarely deposit the egg case in a high humidity environment near a food source but this is rarely the case.

The female supplies the egg case with moisture. If she dies more than a few hours before the egg case is ready to hatch out, the young dry up and die.

The young are far too small to be eliminated by going through things.

The best bet, though rarely practical, is freezing or cooking. By cooking I mean subjecting items that may hold roaches to temperatures in excess of 120 degrees for a period of 20 minutes. This will kill any and all insects in all states of development.

Foggers and sprays will work, but are ancient technologies and require years of experience to make them work. I know. At one time that and a few primitive baits were all we had. Gel baits properly used will get the job done.

When entomologists want to raise roaches to study they use cardboard, food and water. The cardboard gives the young a place to hide from the adults as they tend to make snack food out of them until they are a little larger than snack size. They can also survive on the glue that holds the cardboard together and water. Same for most organic glues used to put paper bags together and the glue that used to be used on stamps and is still used to seal envelopes.

Cardboard is your enemy when it comes to roaches. New boxes for sure, ditch the old ones as they may harbor young roaches.

Placement of baits in cabinets, closets, dressers, the kitchen and pretty much all cracks and crevices throughout the home before moving in will go a long way towards preventing/eliminating an infestation. Roaches are drawn to corners. Baits should be placed, according to the label, in corners.

They must have water, so provide them with bait near water sources. (The condensate tray in the bottom of the refrigerator is a common source of water.)

If you limit their food sources severely they will be more likely to eat the bait and die. The bait is "shared" through cannibalism. One eats the bait and dies. All those that feed on the one die. They are fed on and kill those that eat them. Up to 44 can die from one roach ingesting the bait.

And for what it's worth...I have NEVER heard of a roach infestation being eliminated by using a living critter of any kind and certainly not a Gecko. If you want it as a pet...fine. Just don't count on it to eliminate an infestation of roaches. Ain' happenin'.

Nor have I EVER heard of a Gecko being able to eliminate a roach infestation.

I do know that if you are moving and want to rid your possessions of any cockroaches you must shrink wrap everything before the move.Such as books and magazines with-in which they can lay eggs. As they also need air to breathe, shrink wrapping your items that may have roaches or roach eggs in it will kill them as they can not breathe and will suffocate.

It is difficult to get rid of all cockroaches, so be very careful when packing as they like to hide and lay eggs in small corners (and in toilet paper and I suggest you throw away all toilet paper and buy new ones) and as said previously in cardboard boxes, and when seen they move very fast.

Good Luck and I hope this was useful.

It depends on the species, though on average, I'd estimate around a few millimeters. A typical American cockroach nymph is born at around 3 mm (I don't have a roach nor a ruler handy :P) whereas a hissing cockroach nymph may be born at around 10 mm, or the size of a watermelon seed.

It dies ANSWER Gross! You would kill it!

Roaches have a pair of compound eyes, each made up of more than 2,000 individual hexagonal-shaped facets and each facet has its own optic nerve.

Do Boll Weevils Bite Humans! I will begin by telling the story. Recently I few days ago I returned from a hunt in Amarillo Texas to my home in Tennessee. Leaving my equipment bag on a chair in my bedroom for a few days. For about the past three nights I have been waking in the mornings with new bites each night. Thinking it to be a flea since our Labrador sleeps with us, I inspected her very closely. No fleas! This afternoon while inspecting the bed for the evening, "guess what I found"! Yes a small Boll Weevil in the center of the bed under the covers that had been injured probably by the dog jumping on the bed. I identified it via the Internet as confirming it was a boll weevil. Assuming that he had to be the culprit! It would seem that due to a lack of possible moisture or food he chose me as a host and left some nasty bites looking like the worst mosquito bite or flea bite you have ever had, not to mention the itch unmercifully. Even after using after-bite and other remedies. Can't advise about the poisonous section of this question, guess I will find out! However the itch is tremendous! LT.

I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else,

Decaying plant matter, mainly. They help the ecosystem by recycling the rotting material at the bottom of the forest floor.

3-8 months.

Yes

Ladybugs and cockroaches are in the same family (insects) but not the same Genus due to their obvious differences.

I've been having dreams with roaches lately. so i look this stuff up. And the meaning seems to fit..it means that you need self-cleansing of your spiritual self. You need to confront certain fears or things that you have not gotten over. If in the dream you step on the roach and kill it..thats a good thing. you're making progress. this of course, is if you're scared of them..in the dream. if you see them and seem not to care, there are problems around you but they don't seem to mess with your life.

Cockroaches and other some other insects don't have bones inside them holding them together like we do. They have a outer skeleton which is tough enough to protect the insect and keep it from drying out.

cedar, eucalyptus oil and rosemary. Place essential oils of these scents on cotton balls and place where roaches have been seen. Re-apply oils to cotton every few days to keep scents strong and fresh.

Cockroaches can survive under water for up to 15 minutes.

http://ct.water.usgs.gov/education/riverfacts.htm Mythbusters showed 5 of 5 cockroaches survived after being under water for 30 minutes http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-drowning-cockroaches.html

I would look for other solutions to your problem.

Bringing seagulls into you home would make a bigger mess than the cockroaches do.

I would start by cleaning your house, then calling an exterminator.

Organophosphates (OP) mimic acetylcholine (ACh, a neurotransmitter) and reacts irreversibly with the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE). AChE is needed to breakdown ACh after it has been used to send messages across the synapse of a nerve. Without breakdown of ACh, the muscles will be constantly stimulated resulting in paralysis and death

At about 1:50 in the video they talk about cockroach stool

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-deal-with-cockroaches At about 1:50 in the video they talk about cockroach stool

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-deal-with-cockroaches

The American female cockroach reproduces up to 50 egg cases containing 16 eggs each that yield 300 or more nymphs.

They see like a fly since their eyes are compound but very weak as they rely mostly on antennae and they can see colors but not all-light in the red spectrum for example which is why roach baits are usually red, so you can check them with a light and they won't scatter.

Yes, cockroaches can live in houseplants. Roaches are attracted to organic things like soils from houseplants. Keeping the houseplants watered can help in eliminating the cockroaches.

60 Billion!

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Some species include eurycotis floridana, periplaneta americana, p. australasiae, etc

A tick can live a week or more without its' head.

Maybe. There is no reason that they would avoid you if you blocked their path or if you had food on you.