Food, insects, kinda gross 

Opened up a clamshell container of cookies sitting on my stove this morning and a roach scuttled either out of the inside or off of the outside of it, it was hard to tell. I yelped and then killed it.

I have some glue traps set out for 'em in other parts of my kitchen but there weren't any new ones in there.

I think the building itself probably has them and this was just one wandering in. I'm still super grossed out and freaking out a bit, though

re: Food, insects, kinda gross 

@hummingrain I live in New Orleans and am pretty fastidious about food hygiene so... you can pretty much imagine why my sympthy level here is high. *hug* Yuck.

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re: Food, insects, kinda gross 

@hummingrain FWIW, the Raid small/large roach baits with the extra little egg-killing flats has been pretty effective for us. Buy twice as many as they tell you to and replace scrupulously. It seemed to be just as effective in stopping our 2nd round of infestation as a $150 spraying was against the 1st. (i.e., enough that we saw not a single roach for 4-5 months, longer than we should have waited to replace the traps anyhow)

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