Roaches, Rats and Termites.

@rakski (156200)
Philippines
August 22, 2020 9:48am CST
Today, me and my SIL visited a nephew whose having family problems. We helped him moved his room to the old room of his grandmother. The grandmother was leaving with them but moved to the other son's house beside her original house. It was a shocked to me and my SIL, never have we experienced so much roaches in our lives all in a room. The TV rack had been a house for some rats that when they dismantle the rack because of termite infestation, two rats came out running. Not to mention other termite infestations on most woods there. I have never seen termites alive for real. We are hoping that now the room is clean and pest free, that the nephew will maintain the orderliness and cleanliness there.
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• India
22 Aug 20
There has to be lizards they eat all insects.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
maybe there are some but not enough to eat all
• India
23 Aug 20
@rakski Ok. There might be something to feed on.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
24 Aug 20
@piyushbhatia1 the woods and cabinets?!?
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
having termites nay be due to the soil where the house was built. maybe there was a termite hill and the soil was not treated with termite killer spray?
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
that is possible. The house they said that it is 50 year old house. It can also be because the termites came from neighboring houses.
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
l can imagine that is quite an old house that has been not maintained well that these pest thrives when they are left undisturbed for sometime. I hope the proper treatment will be done so that they will keep away that place for sometime.
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
24 Aug 20
@rakski Sometimes when the house is really that old it becomes attractive to these pests to live in. No matter how you clean and maintain it. l have live in an old wooden house and they are really hard to maintain as it becomes very attractive for rats and roaches to live in for some reason.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
24 Aug 20
@rsa101 that is true but of course it is kept clean somehow, there will be less
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
24 Aug 20
I hope so too. The least they can do is to clean and maintain the house clean
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
26 Aug 20
I could not live with one roach in my house. I have cans of Raid for roaches, ants, spiders, you name them. If a place is mopped we know what bugs to throw out.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
26 Aug 20
Same here. I also have some insect spray just in case some appeared here
@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
22 Aug 20
Whoa! How can he sleep there?
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
@rakski Good thing you intervene. I hope your nephew will be better.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
24 Aug 20
@cherriefic we are hoping for that too!
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
They have been living there ever since. But the room my nephew is occupying now was the room of his grandmother.
@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Aug 20
That's doesn't a very pleasant place to live. I hope your nephew is able to keep to pest-free now.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
oh yes, that is true. I wonder how they were able to live there for such a long time together with the pests
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
22 Aug 20
so when the grandma left, it has never been cleaned? how many months or years ago?
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
they just left a week ago. I guess it has never been thoroughly clean
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@gr8nana6 (6614)
• Conyers, Georgia
22 Aug 20
That is a very unhealthy environment
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
true. They never took the time to clean it.
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@thelme55 (79311)
• Germany
22 Aug 20
Omg! That was scary.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
really scary! we were shocked.
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@jayanth_77 (7179)
• India
22 Aug 20
Termites, rats and cockroaches are a real menace found in all homes and unless you clean the crevices on a weekly they are bound to become permanent resident.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
And it has not been cleaned for years, that is the reason why the pests took refuge there
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• India
22 Aug 20
That's so unhealthy and disgusting situation to stay. Hope they keep things tidy from now onwards
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
really disgusting to say the least. I hope they clean it always
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@happylife1 (13403)
• Karachi, Pakistan
22 Aug 20
fumigation can works...try it
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
23 Aug 20
maybe soon
@Overflowing (3709)
26 Aug 20
try ordering on lazada or shopee ma friend the pest repellant. just plug it in and the tiny noise will shooo aways those pests