My cat recently found another one in the kitchen (shiver). My mother (my source for all things) advises stuffing steel wool in any cracks around pipes in your house. She said that they won’t cross this barrier for some reason. This is the route we’ve gone–it’s not been long, but fingers crossed! We have three kitties, so we don’t want to use chemicals if we can avoid it.

Borax powder can be applied to baseboards and in cracks between shelves, under your fridge and oven, etc. The powder is a lot more nature friendly than the pesticide alternative.

That said, if you want to “shock and awe” and go the pesticide route, I highly recommend Bengal Gold roach spray. This stuff will make your bathroom or kitchen look like a roach war zone.

Best of luck!

Pour liquid dishsoap on bright white throw away plate(s) and place them under plug in nightlights in the most heavily affected area(s) right before you call it a night.

It sounds so stupid that I never thought it would work but being desperate, I was willing to try anything. It took about a week, but with routine house cleaning and plates set out each night, our house was once again flea free without the need for any caustic chemicals that could hurt my kidlet or pets.

Hope this helps :)

Hey Seraph,

We haven’t heard anything about camel or cave crickets although I do know someone who uses sticky traps (meant for mice) to trap crickets in their home. Hope it helps! And anyone else with advice on the subject, feel free to chime in!

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Alot of them do crawl out dead when you have the exterminator over tho. It takes a long time for them to come back once you exterminate.

You might want to bug bomb your basement/crawlspace as well.

Good Luck

This will also kill spiders, silverfish, and other nasty pests and if applied properly, will only be in areas where pets and children won’t get into it. It was the only foolproof thing we tried that got rid of roaches and silverfish.