What nadiatims said.

Also they come in different shapes as well (big ones that are relative easy to repel and the pesky little ones that are hard to get rid of once they find a place to settle down).

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I agree that keeping your place clean is useful.  Clean under the stove and oven, and all the nooks and crannies you can reach, especially in the kitchen.  You might be able to seal some openings here and there, as well.

Make sure you get the kind that they eat and then take back to the other roaches and poison too.

Ampharos64 wrote:

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That disgusted me in so many ways...

Right. So.
1. Go through each apartment building and say that you'd want to have a building level extermination, and ask them if they're willing to cooperate (I'm sure most people will). preferably try to call an extermination agency before this in order to tell them how much it will cost . The extermination agency is for the building hallway, elevator and basement, btw. They'd have to take care of their apartments themselves (depends on the agency, tho). Or you could just go the the building administrator or whatever for it.
2. Make sure there's no food or things that would normally get into your mouth that is out and exposed (if it's in a sealed bag it's ok. if not, put everything in the fridge). 3. 3. Clean up your house real nice. Make sure nothing's on the floor.
4. Buy the most potent bug extermination juice you can find (different countries so I can't exactly recommend anything. The stronger ones are vials of liquid rather than sprays in my experience). Fill the house with it(especially kitchen and bath areas, general corners, etc) and get the hell out, leaving the windows closed. Do this on the day of the extermination.
5. Sleep at a friend's place.
6. come back home and open the windows.
7. Sleep at a friend's place.

And voila. The bugs are gone . If you don't handle the rest of the building the problem won't be solved as they will keep coming back... However the other people will be more willing to cooperate once you've made it clear that the building-wide extermination will be happening. Why? Because if only 95% of the apartments are doing it, then all the roaches will gather in the other 5% and stay there .

Btw, if they can fly, they might be coming in through the windows, in which case you'd need to install a net. Do you have any trees right in front of your window or something?

Whenever someone mentions a bug bomb I always see those gloomy pictures.

poor little cockroaches

i would pick them up and put them outside when i find them. They are a bit ugly and gross, but it's not like they can help it...

Thank you guys so much for the answers
I freaked out today when I sprayed the sink with ゴキブリがいなくなるスプレー (Yeah, that's actually the name of the spray!) when around 10-15 small cockroaches appeared under the sink in order to get air. It was too late for them though and all of them died.
I then talked to my landlord about it and he gave me a room on the second floor (the one I had was on the first floor, right next to the bathroom/kitchen).
Now I've sprayed my new room with different sprays, have 24 of the ブラックキャップ traps lying around and a ゴキジェットプロ spray right next to me at all times.
I'll see how things go this week. If this continues I'll definitely move out of here...

Last edited by Zorlee (2012 October 03, 7:40 am)

IceCream wrote:

poor little cockroaches

i would pick them up and put them outside when i find them. They are a bit ugly and gross, but it's not like they can help it...

I don't think we're talking about the same monster here. I once stayed in a cockroach infested apartment in Arizona for three months, and it was nothing to me. But Japanese black cockroaches are different.

You see the enemy in your house, and the entire family is in scramble mode. Only the bravest of your family can fight back. It's too fast to "pick up." You spray it, and the monster is tough enough. Your man corners the cockroach, and it flies. Children scream. Ladies pass out. Grandma already died of a heart attack 30 minutes ago. God sent them to punish the Japanese, or they're Satan's creation.

It's the only exception to Rule thir...,

Ampharos64 wrote:

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...never mind. The internet is really vast and infinite.

On a more serious note, I think cockroaches are hated mostly because they're the sign of filthy environment and harder to get rid of. Another reason is that the typical kind of large cockroach in Japan runs incredibly fast (Wikipedia says 5 feet per second), and they fly. They even come at you with their incredible speed and flying ability if you attack them. If you're easily scared of large bugs, you will literally panic. If they were less aggressive and moved at half the speed, cockroach sprays and traps wouldn't sell that well.

delta wrote:

IceCream wrote:

poor little cockroaches

i would pick them up and put them outside when i find them. They are a bit ugly and gross, but it's not like they can help it...

Certainly. It must be so cruel to be a cockroach.

All the better reason to put the little buggers out of their misery, and pray for a more auspicious rebirth.

Zorlee wrote:

I then talked to my landlord about it and he gave me a room on the second floor (the one I had was on the first floor, right next to the bathroom/kitchen).

Very good!

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