Roaches in vehicles

[sidebite252]

I have only found them in the ash tray and that was over 30 years ago. Haven’t had a roach problem in a long time.

 

[Jack Ryan]

About a month ago, both my car and truck were suddenly inhabited by roaches. They're not the big roaches that come in off the trees nor are they babies. They're just midsize.

We don't have them in the house. I don't leave food in the vehicles. In fact, I don't treat/store/use the vehicles any different than I have over the last 20 years when I didn't have roaches in them.

It's weird that roaches showed up in both places at the same time. That leads me to believe there's some outside factor that I haven't identified.

Any ideas? And has anybody here ever bug-bombed their vehicle?

Hauling firewood.

 

[benenglish]

Hauling firewood.

That is a good hypothesis, if it weren't for the fact that I have hauled no firewood.

 

[Jack Ryan]

That is a good hypothesis, if it weren't for the fact that I have hauled no firewood.

Left it parked in/near the forest/ wood lot for a while. Leaf litter build up stuck somewhere for a while.

Pissed off ex borrowed it.

Hauling BOXES of fresh produce.

Plastic walmart bags.

Somebody near by where they are both parked cut down a big old tree.

I've seen those big old Oaks hit the ground and it look like roaches EXPLODED from it and ran in all directions. I keep a 2 gallon fruit sprayer full of insecticide near by any time I cut a tree in a hundred feet of a building.

 

[benenglish]

Ok, but what confuses me is that the damn things showed up in both vehicles at the same time. One was parked, the other in daily use.

That seems really odd to me.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Ok, but what confuses me is that the damn things showed up in both vehicles at the same time. One was parked, the other in daily use.

That seems really odd to me.

ISIS roaches, co-ordinated attacks.

 

[benenglish]

Best theory yet.

 

[dsgrey]

Never heard of that problem but I assume you have transferred absolutely nothing from one vehicle to the other? If not, someone's paying you back or even worse...your yard is infested?

 

[sharkey]

When we get rental cars back from Hawaii they have roaches in them.

Are you talking the bug or the bud?

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[benenglish]

Never heard of that problem but I assume you have transferred absolutely nothing from one vehicle to the other? If not, someone's paying you back or even worse...your yard is infested?

Multiple inspections of the lawn show no problems. I don't think anyone is out to get me.

I keep wracking my brain to remember what I might have transferred between the two. I suppose there must be something but I am not remembering.

 

[diesel1959]

Maybe someone in a neighboring house had large tree limbs knocked down in a recent storm? I see roaches coming from two major sources. 1. sewer/manholes, and 2. Trees.

With a lot of rain, sewer/storm drain roaches might get chased to new environs. With down trees/limbs, tree roaches are most definitely a thing. Beyond that, I haven't got a clue.

 

[vmax]

Never heard of roaches in a vehicle. But that would sure bug the heck out of a person.

 

[benenglish]

Maybe someone in a neighboring house had large tree limbs knocked down in a recent storm? I see roaches coming from two major sources. 1. sewer/manholes, and 2. Trees.

The neighbor next door did some major tree trimming right next to where my vehicles are parked about the time the roaches showed up.

I don't know why that didn't occur to me before. Thanks for jogging my memory. I think we have a winner. Now I just need to bomb 'em and be done with it.

 

[BRD@66]

Maybe they knew this cold weather was en rte & were lookin' for a place to winter.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

Maybe they knew this cold weather was en rte & were lookin' for a place to winter.

That was what I was going to say.

 

[vmax]

Ben if you get pulled over by the cops and they claim to smell MJ,,, you can tell them it's the roaches..

 

[BuzzinSATX]

If they look like this one...



Get a bigger blaster...

 

[Jack Ryan]

Problem solved.

Now go get ya one of those big 20 pound bags of Sevin dust and lawn spreader to dust a 10 foot wide barrier around your house, garage, barn, property line.

Get a big plastic tarp to fit over an entire vehicle. Sevin dust an entire pad on the ground under it then cover it and use one of those in house bug bombs in it.

 

[Adamant_Narwhal]

About a month ago, both my car and truck were suddenly inhabited by roaches. They're not the big roaches that come in off the trees nor are they babies. They're just midsize.

We don't have them in the house. I don't leave food in the vehicles. In fact, I don't treat/store/use the vehicles any different than I have over the last 20 years when I didn't have roaches in them.

It's weird that roaches showed up in both places at the same time. That leads me to believe there's some outside factor that I haven't identified.

Any ideas? And has anybody here ever bug-bombed their vehicle?

I've heard that you should be careful about but bombing a vehicle, as they are designed for specific square footage, and will essentially get into the fabric and AC system due to the concentration, which then becomes a health hazard to you.

Awile back I had ants in my car, luckily they were just sugar ants other wise I would have been a lot more aggressive. They loved the AC vents, so in the summer when I'd turn on the AC I'd get pelted with them every couple of minutes. Eventually I saw that they weren't going away, so I bought a bunch of traps and set them around the vehicle, seems to have done the trick.

 

[BRD@66]

Corps of Engineers recommended putting a circle of Babbo-Ajax-Comet type cleanser on the ground around each of your tires to keep from taking any of their crazy ants home with you from their campgrounds. Probably wouldn't evict already present winged roaches.