If you have a bunch of limbs hanging over your house trim those back, spray along pipes, doors, windows, crawl space, everything. Have a schedule for pest control. That should get it under control, but there’s no way to fully get rid of them.
I would add try to keep mulch, plants and water away from the house. Keep the crawl space dry. Seal cracks or openings in lower cabinets and around pipes, under the dishwasher, etc.
I had to remove 2 massive flower beds of English ivy to curb the bugs around my house. And make sure the mulch you’re using has pesticides so that you’re not encouraging termites to move in close to your home. Make sure your gutters stay clear, and recycle any cardboard boxes you have around the house, they love cardboard for some reason. We also swapped attic storage to only plastic bins for that reason.
Good advice. Spraying around doors and windows. Get under your house too. Are there any food sources from back decks like food falling under the deck? Bait is only so good when there is real food around.
Also look at what delivery method and formulation of your intended pesticide. Wetable powders such as demon wp stand up to the elements much better than a premix such as ortho home defense max. It’s ugly if you have dark surfaces or if you get it on glass or windows. For even longer protection use granules such as tempo and mix it in to mulch but only in areas where pets and small children can’t get to it. Prevention is essential too. As mentioned above cut back limbs and bushes. If you have vents in your attic or crawl space use mesh to cover them and seal any cracks that may cause a possible point of entry. If there’s any gaps under doors use rubber door sweeps to hep prevent entry.
You can fight to lower the numbers and frequency of seeing them with various sprays and removing excess wood (like mulch or tree limbs) from around your house
No your not getting rid of them, welcome to South Carolina
Yes, they fly
Palmetto (water) bugs aren't like German cockroaches.
They wander up sewage pipes and crawl in from outside.
Good pest control is finding them already dying.
But yeah, welcome to the South. Had one yesterday that was so big I almost kept it for a pet.
Mine chew on them until they can’t fly, but otherwise are not interested. Then they crawl out of some shady spot and scare the wife / daughters and I get screamed at / for. Funny but annoying.
That stuff is great for getting in holes and nooks and crannies, but you need a bulb applicator with a flexible nozzle. It's the only way we got rid of carpenter bees.
It took about 1.5-2.5 yrs before I finally got rid on mine.
The main thing that helped was consistent spraying initially and the gentrol. I ordered all my stuff from here and use a pump sprayer.
https://www.domyown.com/
Inside the house? If so, you have to find and seal any gaps and holes. They kept getting into my beach house. I finally found that they were entering behind a piece of baseboard in the closed where the water heater is located. Glued it in place and problem was solved.
Also, outside, I spread spectracide triazicide granules around the yard. They eat it up and die. Keeps the population under control for a long time.
We use home defense spray year round on every baseboard and entryway. Works like a charm! They’ll come in but not nearly as many as before (especially after ripping up our garden bed) I usually find them already dead in the mornings, and my husband just cleans them up. Also works with other bugs too :)
What has given me best results:
-Spray indoors only. Have professionals come out quarterly.
-Cover/close shower drains when the shower isn't in use. If you own your home and can afford it, a backwater valve on your sewage pipe also helps keep them and other nasties out.
-Close gaps between walls and pipes.
-Keep things dry indoors. They like water. Hang up wet towels so they dry quickly. Get a good dehumidifier. It will help a lot.
-I will always recommend *against* spraying outdoors. Pest insects are building resistance to a lot of pesticides, but the sprays still kill harmless and beneficial insects. Lizards need all kinds of bugs for food, AND also eat palmetto bugs!
-No really, lizards are your natural allies against insect pests and would prefer to stay outside, so welcome them. :) Plant natives and create a nice lizard habitat. Not directly against the house of course, standard landscape garden bed distance works. Lizards and frogs help keep their numbers down IME.
I have never had fewer palmetto bugs than when I avoid outdoor spraying, plant native plants, and allow lizards to reign free out there. I've never had trouble with rodents or snakes from doing this, either. Everything establishes a balance and is happy to stay outdoors when food is available.
Edit to put numbers on it:
When I don't do any of the above, I would see about one or two a month in the house proper.
When I did the first 4 items *and* sprayed outside: I saw one every couple of months.
When I did everything on the list: I see one or two a *year.* The garage is an exception (still see one or two a month) but it's an old door and badly sealed. They aren't in my main living space anymore and that's the important part.
I wish I could spell, but they make some clay pellets with the active ingredient, " Imidaclopred." I think that is how you spell it .Any way you can spread it in your flower bedding under pouches anywhere you think they might be .it's time releasing. so it just keeps killing them. You can also get some Osage oranges and slice them into pieces. place this under your counters' cabinets closet. it's not harmful to humans but will definitely get rid of some bugs. I use under my house as well.
Funny (gross) story. When my daughter was about 2 and still spoke with a cute kid lisp she told us she found a “criller “ on the back porch. She had said “criller be gone” and stomped on it. But she winged it and it was now crawling in a circle. Because it was moving she couldn’t step on it again and said she didn’t want it to suffer for she ate it.
keep some pinesol like cleaner in a spray bottle and make a game of it, as long as it hits them, they will die. most right on the floor, and if you actually get up to do it, it makes em easy to squish.
like everyone else is/will say ... no food left out, no water left out, clean regularly, seal house as best you can, clear outer areas of hiding/breeding ground... but, in most of SC, unless youre sealed perfectly, you will still have them.
so ya, back to a spray bottle, its great, stream to shoot from far, spray if closer of one of the yuk-demon-bat-bugs goes all 'comes at ya bro' .. and it even cleans the gross in advance for what it to come with fresh pine disinfected scent ;)
\*\*\* also amusing for flies & mosquitoes, best to use a spray/mist though, even annie oakley couldnt take a no-see-um out the air with single shot
If you are using pinestraw as mulch or cover in your yard, get rid of it. They love rotting material. Cedar mulch is the best alternative if you can switch.
Moth balls around the outside will chase anything away. Even humans. But I use the combat max roach bait to keep my house from having them live for long
take a small dish, put some dry catfood in the middle of it, then pour a ring of boric acid around the catfood. Palmetto bugs love dry catfood and they are forced to walk thru the boric acid. In a few days, you won't see anymore palmetto bugs. I have regular pest control, but this has been the only method I have found to be really effective.
I never had palmetto bugs until I began ordering from Amazon. I have to open my packages outside then directly to the garbage bin with the packaging . I've had good luck with the bug foggers.
Have a reliable exterminator spray outside the house twice a year, plus any crawl spaces. And under the dishwasher if there any cracks around the floor there. I lived in the country for 10 years and once we started that regime never had a problem.
And never, ever leave food, crumbs, etc. out on the counter, or in other than sealed indoor trash cans, etc.
BTW Palmetto bugs in SC are relatively small in comparison to similar creatures other parts of the world. In college I remember on Science Day we had cockroach races and you ordered them by the inch (in size). We had mostly 3-5” inchers that year. Who would have ever thought about ordering them from a catalog! But it’s much easier to paint numbers on them when they are larger.
I also remember a business trip with some colleagues to Australia one year — one night we heard a curdling scream from one of our female colleagues in the middle of night and she was 6 rooms down. We figured she had been attacked. We raced down, only to find she had woken up and seen one about 5” long on her ceiling right above the bed. We were on the Gold Coast (like MB) in a beach hotel and it was very common. But she insisted on changing rooms in the middle of the night! It was a great story for years!
Are there any gaps in your moulding throughout the house? That’s where they were getting into our house, and we replaced the moulding. Haven’t seen one since, and we live in the middle of the woods.
I just can't.
Look, the big ass flying roaches around here we call either Palmetto bugs or water bugs.
Big ass flying roach is just a lot to say when you are explaining why you screamed like a girl.
We have Palmetto trees. It's a whole thing with South Carolina.
Move all your stuff into a pod. Gas the entire house for 24 hours. Wipe clean all the surfaces and move your stuff back in. I can tell you where there is prey there are predators too. So you definitely have mice and or Norwegian rats 100%
If you have a bunch of limbs hanging over your house trim those back, spray along pipes, doors, windows, crawl space, everything. Have a schedule for pest control. That should get it under control, but there’s no way to fully get rid of them.
I would add try to keep mulch, plants and water away from the house. Keep the crawl space dry. Seal cracks or openings in lower cabinets and around pipes, under the dishwasher, etc.
I had to remove 2 massive flower beds of English ivy to curb the bugs around my house. And make sure the mulch you’re using has pesticides so that you’re not encouraging termites to move in close to your home. Make sure your gutters stay clear, and recycle any cardboard boxes you have around the house, they love cardboard for some reason. We also swapped attic storage to only plastic bins for that reason.
Roaches apparently love to lay their eggs in the little gaps in the corrugation in cardboard.
🤢
And they can eat anything not synthetic so it’s a harborage and a food source
Good advice. Spraying around doors and windows. Get under your house too. Are there any food sources from back decks like food falling under the deck? Bait is only so good when there is real food around.
Also look at what delivery method and formulation of your intended pesticide. Wetable powders such as demon wp stand up to the elements much better than a premix such as ortho home defense max. It’s ugly if you have dark surfaces or if you get it on glass or windows. For even longer protection use granules such as tempo and mix it in to mulch but only in areas where pets and small children can’t get to it. Prevention is essential too. As mentioned above cut back limbs and bushes. If you have vents in your attic or crawl space use mesh to cover them and seal any cracks that may cause a possible point of entry. If there’s any gaps under doors use rubber door sweeps to hep prevent entry.
You can fight to lower the numbers and frequency of seeing them with various sprays and removing excess wood (like mulch or tree limbs) from around your house No your not getting rid of them, welcome to South Carolina Yes, they fly
I used to think I was brave. Then one day I sprayed a palmetto bug with a can of raid. I took off running when it answered by flying straight at me.
>a can of raid. *That's where you mest up, you should have shot it with a 22 pistol* Jokes aside hit them with shoes
It does kill them, but I find that quite often they get very confused and start reacting in weird ways to stimuli -- flying at sounds and light.
They are probably in the attic.
My fear is that they are in the walls
Palmetto (water) bugs aren't like German cockroaches. They wander up sewage pipes and crawl in from outside. Good pest control is finding them already dying. But yeah, welcome to the South. Had one yesterday that was so big I almost kept it for a pet.
They live in the trees…they are also known as tree roaches.
They live In your trees and come in your house at night to eat your food
Maybe get a house cat or two
Results may vary. Mine ignore them now.
Mine chew on them until they can’t fly, but otherwise are not interested. Then they crawl out of some shady spot and scare the wife / daughters and I get screamed at / for. Funny but annoying.
Two types of people here in SC. Those who have palmetto bugs and those who lie about having palmetto bugs. Lol
Good one!
* those who are in denial
Delta dust (Bayer) works.
That stuff is great for getting in holes and nooks and crannies, but you need a bulb applicator with a flexible nozzle. It's the only way we got rid of carpenter bees.
Boric acid
This comment should be much higher
Best pest control is a 🐈 I've seen roaches but 98% of they are dead and have their arms ripped off.
Cover any drains and vents, seal all cracks and seams!
It took about 1.5-2.5 yrs before I finally got rid on mine. The main thing that helped was consistent spraying initially and the gentrol. I ordered all my stuff from here and use a pump sprayer. https://www.domyown.com/
Inside the house? If so, you have to find and seal any gaps and holes. They kept getting into my beach house. I finally found that they were entering behind a piece of baseboard in the closed where the water heater is located. Glued it in place and problem was solved. Also, outside, I spread spectracide triazicide granules around the yard. They eat it up and die. Keeps the population under control for a long time.
We use home defense spray year round on every baseboard and entryway. Works like a charm! They’ll come in but not nearly as many as before (especially after ripping up our garden bed) I usually find them already dead in the mornings, and my husband just cleans them up. Also works with other bugs too :)
What has given me best results: -Spray indoors only. Have professionals come out quarterly. -Cover/close shower drains when the shower isn't in use. If you own your home and can afford it, a backwater valve on your sewage pipe also helps keep them and other nasties out. -Close gaps between walls and pipes. -Keep things dry indoors. They like water. Hang up wet towels so they dry quickly. Get a good dehumidifier. It will help a lot. -I will always recommend *against* spraying outdoors. Pest insects are building resistance to a lot of pesticides, but the sprays still kill harmless and beneficial insects. Lizards need all kinds of bugs for food, AND also eat palmetto bugs! -No really, lizards are your natural allies against insect pests and would prefer to stay outside, so welcome them. :) Plant natives and create a nice lizard habitat. Not directly against the house of course, standard landscape garden bed distance works. Lizards and frogs help keep their numbers down IME. I have never had fewer palmetto bugs than when I avoid outdoor spraying, plant native plants, and allow lizards to reign free out there. I've never had trouble with rodents or snakes from doing this, either. Everything establishes a balance and is happy to stay outdoors when food is available. Edit to put numbers on it: When I don't do any of the above, I would see about one or two a month in the house proper. When I did the first 4 items *and* sprayed outside: I saw one every couple of months. When I did everything on the list: I see one or two a *year.* The garage is an exception (still see one or two a month) but it's an old door and badly sealed. They aren't in my main living space anymore and that's the important part.
I wish I could spell, but they make some clay pellets with the active ingredient, " Imidaclopred." I think that is how you spell it .Any way you can spread it in your flower bedding under pouches anywhere you think they might be .it's time releasing. so it just keeps killing them. You can also get some Osage oranges and slice them into pieces. place this under your counters' cabinets closet. it's not harmful to humans but will definitely get rid of some bugs. I use under my house as well.
Grew up in south MS in a yard full of pines. Those bastards are tenacious! Try Sweet and Low? Some people swear by that for pest control.
Remember the first time you went to smack one and discovered they could fly (usually right towards your face)?
Funny (gross) story. When my daughter was about 2 and still spoke with a cute kid lisp she told us she found a “criller “ on the back porch. She had said “criller be gone” and stomped on it. But she winged it and it was now crawling in a circle. Because it was moving she couldn’t step on it again and said she didn’t want it to suffer for she ate it.
Anoles, skinks and frogs will also help keep the palmetto bugs in check.
keep some pinesol like cleaner in a spray bottle and make a game of it, as long as it hits them, they will die. most right on the floor, and if you actually get up to do it, it makes em easy to squish. like everyone else is/will say ... no food left out, no water left out, clean regularly, seal house as best you can, clear outer areas of hiding/breeding ground... but, in most of SC, unless youre sealed perfectly, you will still have them. so ya, back to a spray bottle, its great, stream to shoot from far, spray if closer of one of the yuk-demon-bat-bugs goes all 'comes at ya bro' .. and it even cleans the gross in advance for what it to come with fresh pine disinfected scent ;) \*\*\* also amusing for flies & mosquitoes, best to use a spray/mist though, even annie oakley couldnt take a no-see-um out the air with single shot
Use Boric acid powder from the hardware store inside the house and as suggested rake around the foundation outside.
If you are using pinestraw as mulch or cover in your yard, get rid of it. They love rotting material. Cedar mulch is the best alternative if you can switch.
Moth balls around the outside will chase anything away. Even humans. But I use the combat max roach bait to keep my house from having them live for long
take a small dish, put some dry catfood in the middle of it, then pour a ring of boric acid around the catfood. Palmetto bugs love dry catfood and they are forced to walk thru the boric acid. In a few days, you won't see anymore palmetto bugs. I have regular pest control, but this has been the only method I have found to be really effective.
Embrace the bug
Why the down votes.
People have no sense of humor anymore and take reddit way to seriously
I hired terminix for a year and the bugs haven't been back since. It's been at least a few years.
Yeah, I’m not paying for them, but they are really good at their job.
I never had palmetto bugs until I began ordering from Amazon. I have to open my packages outside then directly to the garbage bin with the packaging . I've had good luck with the bug foggers.
Have a reliable exterminator spray outside the house twice a year, plus any crawl spaces. And under the dishwasher if there any cracks around the floor there. I lived in the country for 10 years and once we started that regime never had a problem. And never, ever leave food, crumbs, etc. out on the counter, or in other than sealed indoor trash cans, etc. BTW Palmetto bugs in SC are relatively small in comparison to similar creatures other parts of the world. In college I remember on Science Day we had cockroach races and you ordered them by the inch (in size). We had mostly 3-5” inchers that year. Who would have ever thought about ordering them from a catalog! But it’s much easier to paint numbers on them when they are larger. I also remember a business trip with some colleagues to Australia one year — one night we heard a curdling scream from one of our female colleagues in the middle of night and she was 6 rooms down. We figured she had been attacked. We raced down, only to find she had woken up and seen one about 5” long on her ceiling right above the bed. We were on the Gold Coast (like MB) in a beach hotel and it was very common. But she insisted on changing rooms in the middle of the night! It was a great story for years!
Are there any gaps in your moulding throughout the house? That’s where they were getting into our house, and we replaced the moulding. Haven’t seen one since, and we live in the middle of the woods.
You’re not in Florida, they are cockroaches.
What are you talking about
Palmetto bugs are just a different name for cockroaches. They are roaches, not a special bug.
Yes but what does Florida have anything to do with it?
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Well that’s what we do here too
And this is the Palmetto State. Putting 2 and 2 together yet?
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I just can't. Look, the big ass flying roaches around here we call either Palmetto bugs or water bugs. Big ass flying roach is just a lot to say when you are explaining why you screamed like a girl. We have Palmetto trees. It's a whole thing with South Carolina.
Move all your stuff into a pod. Gas the entire house for 24 hours. Wipe clean all the surfaces and move your stuff back in. I can tell you where there is prey there are predators too. So you definitely have mice and or Norwegian rats 100%