This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear Barbara,
It sounds as if your search has been very thorough - but I will add two hiding places which proved to be a source of roaches in an old rented apartment of mine. The kitchen cabinet catches appeared to hold egg sacs, and our telephone (forgive the pun) was bugged. I can only assume they liked the warmth of the answering machine unit. It doesn't sound to be the same type of roach based on the behavior you mentioned, but I figure a good hiding place is a good hiding place. Good luck Denise Denise Migdail Textile Conservator Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 From: Appelbaum & Himmelstein <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 01/25/2013 02:29 PM Subject: [pestlist] home invasion Sent by: [email protected] This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- I have an infestation of brown-banded cockroaches in my kitchen and dining room. I found where the egg-sacs were - in a drawer of linens in the dining room - so I put the linens through a very hot washing cycle, took everything out of the stand-alone china cabinet, pulled the drawers out, and killed everything I found. No activity for about a week, and now they're coming back - mostly in my kitchen, where I haven't been able to find any eggs. I pulled out my refrigerator and checked the coils, I've looked behind the pictures on the walls, unscrewed outlet covers, etc. - no signs. Unlike my German friends, it doesn't seem that they are coming out of the walls; I am not finding any in kitchen cabinets. I'm assuming that the ID is correct, although I've never seen one fly. They mostly hang out high up on walls, and are very placid - they don't run for it when someone comes close, they don't scatter when the lights are turned on, and I don't see them on my kitchen counters at night. I don't know what they're eating. I would be eternally grateful for info! Any suggestions? Barbara Appelbaum Appelbaum & Himmelstein 444 Central Park West New York, NY 10025 212-666-4630 (voice) 212-316-1039 (fax) [email protected] website: aandhconservation.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected]
