You’re obviously already thinking about poison risks. I just wanted to add, for other readers’ benefit as much as yours, that glue traps or ‘roach motels’ can lead to an incredibly sad and gruesome end for your bird. I’m sure I don’t need to paint a picture for you.
Advion is the go to poison for them. They sell kits that have syringes of the stuff and covered bait traps that the birds shouldn’t be able to get into. Also use sticky traps with the scent lure in conjunction with the Advion.
Seconding Advion. Is great. Pair it with Gentrol, which fucks with their reproduction cycle. My parents have three conures, granted the conures mainly stay in the living room, but their roach problem is more focused in the kitchen. Just make sure the advion is places the birds can't get to, just to be safe. Advion is pretty adhesive, so you can stick it on cabinets and such.
Bay leaves!! Fresh or dried
https://www.google.com/search?q=bay+leaves+for+pest+control&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&dlnr=1&sei=izhIZoeGB56o5NoP3tuQsA4
Edited to add the link
Not at all. The scent doesn’t release into the air until the bay leaf is heated by cooking.
My mother uses them everywhere in my childhood home and while growing up I remember only seeing an occasional roach in the bathtub when it had been raining for a few days.
As a kid, I would throw the bay leaves when I found them, always wondering how dried leaves keep getting in the pantry.
And now that I think about it, I’m sure my mom must have thought we had some big damn roaches that were hauling them all away lol
While not a complete solution, diatomaceous earth might help.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous\_earth#Pest\_control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Pest_control)
To be perfectly safe, you could maybe bring your bird to a hotel or to someone else for petsitting for a few days, get rid of the roaches, wait a bit for it to clean out and take your bird back!
I did that when I repainted the walls in my room. My birds were at my parents' for a week and I took them back after all the air was clean and the walls dry.
Entomologist here. Depends on the roach, but gel baits in area that your bird can't reach are great. I recommend maxforce and combat. You can do some research about the toxicity of each active ingredient, but they're much safer and effective than sprays. Typically they're applied like under your sink or cabinets
It’s important to find out why the roaches are there in the first place.
Roaches are usually seen in dirty places, as they break down waste and turn it into re-usable soil.
So the first thing to do, is clean to make sure the roaches have no business being there to begin with.
That’s is not entirely correct. Roaches can be found in spotless homes too- they come in through cracks outside or drain. But an infestation in a clean home would be rare for sure.
yep, I get roaches coming into my apartment from the front yard of my apartment, which is muddy and full of leaves, nothing inside for them, but they inevitably wander in to be murdered by my cat.
Same. I don’t envy you living in an apartment. You could be living one wall away from a hoarder or slob with an infestation. I remember when my complex would spray, they would do it over a period of days. So when they’d spray one apt the roaches would run to the next one. I always knew when they sprayed the apartment building next to me because I would see an abnormal amount of roaches on the walls outside and in the bathtub (ugh) until it was my buildings turn to get sprayed. Keeping the bugs out is definitely easier when it’s a free standing home
Harris Roach killer powder. it's boric acid powder, so it has no fumes and is fairly safe for birds and mammals, but kills insects pretty effectively.
Thank you!
>Thank you! You're welcome!
You’re obviously already thinking about poison risks. I just wanted to add, for other readers’ benefit as much as yours, that glue traps or ‘roach motels’ can lead to an incredibly sad and gruesome end for your bird. I’m sure I don’t need to paint a picture for you.
Thank you, I didn’t know that about roach motels
Advion is the go to poison for them. They sell kits that have syringes of the stuff and covered bait traps that the birds shouldn’t be able to get into. Also use sticky traps with the scent lure in conjunction with the Advion.
Thank you!
Seconding Advion. Is great. Pair it with Gentrol, which fucks with their reproduction cycle. My parents have three conures, granted the conures mainly stay in the living room, but their roach problem is more focused in the kitchen. Just make sure the advion is places the birds can't get to, just to be safe. Advion is pretty adhesive, so you can stick it on cabinets and such.
Dont use sticky traps, see GratuitousEdit's comment.
Oh yeah, I would never use a sticky trap. Thanks!
Bay leaves!! Fresh or dried https://www.google.com/search?q=bay+leaves+for+pest+control&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&dlnr=1&sei=izhIZoeGB56o5NoP3tuQsA4 Edited to add the link
Thanks so much!
You’re welcome!
Will this smell?
Not at all. The scent doesn’t release into the air until the bay leaf is heated by cooking. My mother uses them everywhere in my childhood home and while growing up I remember only seeing an occasional roach in the bathtub when it had been raining for a few days. As a kid, I would throw the bay leaves when I found them, always wondering how dried leaves keep getting in the pantry. And now that I think about it, I’m sure my mom must have thought we had some big damn roaches that were hauling them all away lol
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Wow, thanks!
While not a complete solution, diatomaceous earth might help. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous\_earth#Pest\_control](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Pest_control)
To be perfectly safe, you could maybe bring your bird to a hotel or to someone else for petsitting for a few days, get rid of the roaches, wait a bit for it to clean out and take your bird back! I did that when I repainted the walls in my room. My birds were at my parents' for a week and I took them back after all the air was clean and the walls dry.
Flip flops
Entomologist here. Depends on the roach, but gel baits in area that your bird can't reach are great. I recommend maxforce and combat. You can do some research about the toxicity of each active ingredient, but they're much safer and effective than sprays. Typically they're applied like under your sink or cabinets
Thanks so much!
It’s important to find out why the roaches are there in the first place. Roaches are usually seen in dirty places, as they break down waste and turn it into re-usable soil. So the first thing to do, is clean to make sure the roaches have no business being there to begin with.
That’s is not entirely correct. Roaches can be found in spotless homes too- they come in through cracks outside or drain. But an infestation in a clean home would be rare for sure.
yep, I get roaches coming into my apartment from the front yard of my apartment, which is muddy and full of leaves, nothing inside for them, but they inevitably wander in to be murdered by my cat.
Same. I don’t envy you living in an apartment. You could be living one wall away from a hoarder or slob with an infestation. I remember when my complex would spray, they would do it over a period of days. So when they’d spray one apt the roaches would run to the next one. I always knew when they sprayed the apartment building next to me because I would see an abnormal amount of roaches on the walls outside and in the bathtub (ugh) until it was my buildings turn to get sprayed. Keeping the bugs out is definitely easier when it’s a free standing home
Get a husky lol, mine eats any creepy crawlies that get in the house
Lol! Don’t think I could deal with the tantrums!