Author: Daniel Brooks

If you bought a jar of boric acid for roaches and they are still around, the powder is almost never the problem. Boric acid works, but only as a thin film you can... Read more.

If you are standing in the aisle reaching for the best roach spray, here is the honest read from someone who does this for a living: a spray is a spot tool, not... Read more.

The best cockroach gel bait is not a single product, it is a rotation. Buy one indoxacarb-based bait and one fipronil-based bait, place tiny dabs deep in the cracks... Read more.

If you are standing in the pesticide aisle trying to pick the best roach killer, the honest answer is that there is not one. The right product depends on where the... Read more.

If you keep finding roaches even though your kitchen is clean, the thing pulling them in is almost certainly water, not crumbs. A roach can coast about a month with... Read more.

If roaches keep turning up in your apartment kitchen at night, the frustrating part is that you can keep your unit spotless and still see them, because in a shared-wall... Read more.

German cockroaches are the hardest roach to clear because they breed fast, hide in tight crevices, and shrug off most sprays. The fix that actually works is boring:... Read more.

If you keep finding roaches in the kitchen at night, do not start with a can of spray. What actually clears a colony is the boring order: clean off their food and... Read more.

If you want roach control you can put down and walk away from, bait stations are the lowest-effort option, but they are also the slowest and the weakest in a heavy... Read more.