do you kill them whenever you see one?

Hello,mskzalameda,when i see the small cockroaches,i will kill them by my hands,but i will not kill the big ones by bare hands becasue they are too disgusting,i will use the vacuum cleaner to suck it in,i will let the cleaner running for ten seconds to make sure the roahces have been killed.But i do not know how to deal with the flying ones because i cannot catch them by the vacuum cleaner.
I know some of the cockroaches are for medical purpose,but it should not be the ones you see at home or at the gutters.

You Know I have great respect for the creepy bug. I really believe there has to be some purpose for its existence even. But I do not like any bug in my home. I am faithful to have my home sprayed for all pests twice a year.

I haven't seen a cockroach since one day in Sunday School, a girl walked in, took off her coat, and a cockroach crawled out. That was the last time I saw one, and I was 12. If I see any more in the future I'll kill them. Those suckers multiply and spread germs and diseases!: )

I will immediately reach for the insecticide and empty half the content in panic until?I don't even see a feeler moving. I am terrified of them. In fact in the middle of the night on my way to the toilet, if I encounter one, and if I can wait till the morning, I'd just make a U-turn back to my bed.

Hey thats a vital information you have provided about cockroaches.I hate them because sometimes they fly around and terrifies me.Its a dirty insect and smells bad.

We have stored many unused items in our laft and while cleaning it we find many cockroaches.We used insecticides to kill them before cleaning.

They enter the dress cupboard and hides there and leaves waste on dresses which is not easy to remove.Hence i use napthalene balls in my cupboard to get rid of this.

I kill them if i see somewhere in my house.

They are definately on the endangered species list at my house. I hate beetle type insects and I will kill any that I see.

i don't encounter much problems with cockroaches at home. during the mating season, we hardly see some flying around the house nor in the yard. maybe this is because we have some chickens around and the chickens eat them up. as of this writing, we have a few pairs of white bantam chickens. they are good at keeping the insect population within control.

before, when there used to be plentiful of these cockroaches, i use pesticides to bring their population down. i placed 1-2-3 household insecticide in their hiding places after having bombarded it with baygon cockroach killer. for our yard, i used malathion and a brand which has been banned from the philippine market by now. it was necessary then when we just moved into this place in 1983. there were too much of these perceived to be injurious to health insects around.

I haven't seen a roach in years. we briefly had them when a next door neighbor moved out and let me tell you they didn't last long with us.we stomped,sprayed,and finally got those black traps where the roaches eat the stuff and take it back to the nest where is kills the rest. they are so nasty

i really hate cockraoch and used to dust our home regularly.i dont find cockraoches at my home.before we move to our new home we were in place where there were lots of cockraoches.if we see any cockraoches we were calling a boy who is expert in catching them.he wont kill them just he is expert in catcing them with small net and sometimes with hands and he put them in bags leave them somwhere far away to our home.

If they are not a real nuisance, and if their activities are limited to the garden or the wild, leave them alone. In nature they have an important role in the disposal of ecosystem detritus. Use all your best efforts not to offer them a way into your house. A clean house, without many crevices, and without poorly stored food, rarely suffers from large cockroach invasions. Attempt to control them only if their populations increase beyond that of some occasional visible visits.

- Walter Dioni
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk