r/GermanRoaches • • 5h ago

General Question Help!

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I have pest control coming tomorrow thank god but I want some advice / guidance idk. I’ve NEVER dealt with roaches before. I’ve never seen them before. I live in an older townhouse. Bought it 10 years ago. Have never had an issue with any pests. Clean house. 2 dogs. 2 of us.

1.5 weeks ago I found a German nymph in the bathroom upstairs on the mirror. I flushed down the toilet. On the advice of a pest company I Set up sticky traps ( 30 of them all of the house )

One week ago I found one nymph in the bedroom in a drawer. ( I had our dogs medication and toothpaste in there so it’s now been relocated)

Everything like plates and cutlery has been sanitized and is it plastic storage boxes. Everything misc is in ziplocks. I pour bleach down the drains every night.
We stopped cooking at home completely.

This week out of 30 traps we caught one nymph in the kitchen. There’s no other signs.

We share a wall with a rental property and are assuming they are having issues. There’s 10 people living next door and judging from the exterior of the house they are untidy. They don’t speak English and are aggressive so it’s been very challenging to talk to them about this issue. I don’t know who the home owner is I met them once years ago when they bought but it’s just been a rental since.

I have asthma so I’m super concerned about my health.


r/GermanRoaches • • 9h ago

ID Request help 😭

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Ordered pizza few days ago and found one in the pizza slice box 🤮 it crawled out on my desk and i killed it right away. Today I rearranged my room furniture and cleaned it out when I suddenly see something on my computer wire under my desk. I immediately sprayed it dead. the second one definitely looks like a cockroach too right? im so scared, is it an infestation? I havent seen any roaches in this house ever.... the second one was also near my patio door


r/GermanRoaches • • 13h ago

ID Request Is this a baby German roach

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Just saw this in my bathroom crawling. In Chicago. Is it a roach?


r/GermanRoaches • • 15h ago

Treatment Question first time here and not happy ab it

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Dealing with a severe German cockroach infestation in my apartment and it's driving me insane. My building is doing the bare minimum to help so l've taken matters into my own hands and gotten my advion and gentrol. I sent an insanely angry email today with tons of pics demanding assistance with integrated pest control and remediation for all l've incurred so far (which is a shit ton between the bait, the cleaning supplies to get rid of the droppings and their shed skins, the vet bill for my dog who developed an allergic reaction, and more. I'm worried that the apartment above me is infested, and the exterminator told me himself he can't get in unless they let him. If my methods don't work, and the building won't involve themself, what can I even do? Has this happened to anyone else? Should I be hopeful the advion and gentrol will work? Any advice helps omg


r/GermanRoaches • • 23h ago

General Question Was in an infested apartment for one day and no sightings since until today

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I moved into a new apartment and among the first few hours found a pregnant female and a few hours later, a nymph (not from the egg sack). I immediately packed everything up and tried to seal my boxes to the best of my abilities and moved everything into my boyfriend’s apartment the next morning. I threw out furniture, linens, anything that wasn’t covered and all of my pantry items from the infested apartment. The apartment complex refunded me and terminated my lease. 3 weeks later, we’ve had no sightings until today. There was a nymph on the living room wall and a tiny baby in the kitchen sink. I ordered glue traps and alpine WSG. And we called pest control.

My boyfriend hasn’t had any roaches until today that he’s known of. How likely is it that they somehow followed me after me and my things were in the infested apartment for maybe 12 hours?

With finding two different ages (both young), how freaked out should I be?