Controlling roaches is not difficult. You just need to recognize the signs that you have a roach infestation, and then you need to find out where its nest is. Then you must find a way to get to the nest to treat it.

Oh, and you need to know how to perform those treatment techniques to get the most positive result.

The problem is that most people don’t know how to do all of that. The only reason I knew is that I became a pest control technician and had to help people get rid of this insect.

When you wake up in the middle of the night I walked to the kitchen for a glass of water. And catch a burst of action when you turn on the light. (Or feel and hear the creaking of those little bodies when you step on them because you did not turn on the light). Perhaps roaches infest your home.

Maybe not.

But the fact is, when you see roaches running across your kitchen floor, you are only seeing about 20% of the roach population that you are hosting.

80% of that family of cockroaches live and roam inside your walls.

You can’t see them. The only way to know they are there is if you know that when you see roaches running around your house, you also know that most of them stay out of sight.

If you don’t treat them the right way, you won’t get rid of them.

A good suspension spray helps. When you spray it on a surface, the spray dries. That leaves a thin layer of poisonous dust on that surface. When roaches walk through the dust, it gets on their legs. The cockroach eats the dust when it cleans its feet.

Some of them return to the nest before dying. Cockroaches are cannibals. When they eat these insects that died from licking the venom off their legs, they also die. Over time, the cannibalistic activity spreads the poison around the nest.

(Some technicians tell you that one spray is all you need. It gives them a chance to keep going home for future treatments.)

Like I said, the spray helps. But it is fast acting. Most of those roaches will not return to the nest. And the technician who only sprays makes more money for his company because periodic treatments are required.

You are better off using baits. They act on the cockroach more slowly and give it enough time to return to the nest. The other insects get more of their own dead to feast on, and the snowball effect of the poison soon wipes out the nest.

So know your cockroach bait options. Learn which baits are most effective. Learn to find out where they have built their nest. And learn how to best position your baits for the most success in killing them.

Do that and you, too, will think that roach control is easy.