TERRO T500 Indoor Multi-Surface Roach Bait Stations - Indoor Cockroach Killer, 6 Bait Stations, Black

Came to these from The Wirecutter's review. This thinned my apartment's cockroach population dramatically. I had been having several cockroaches show up every night in various placed for several weeks, and these killed most of them very quickly. I've been getting up after six hours of sleep regularly to go pee, and I had gotten in the habit of turning on a dim light and grabbing my salt shotgun and shooting them for a while before going back to bed. Removing the cockroaches from my apartment has improved my sleep dramatically. A few recommendations for use: - Buy twice as many as you think need. You'll end up wanting to cover more rooms, or to cover each room more thoroughly. Cockroaches tend to find safe habitats and scavenge for food around just that habitat, so you need to put traps where they'll find them when foraging. - The adhesive is not great. I've left them directly on my floor, but the traps are small enough that I don't notice them. - Cockroaches /do/ migrate sometimes, so be warned that they might have expanded to places that you haven't trapped yet. I didn't know that they had migrated to my bedroom, so I needed to add more traps there. When a cockroach dies, I've been just vacuuming it up with the wand from my vacuum cleaner. Also be careful to look for and vacuum up egg sacs (small black pellets). I had to switch from eating black beans to eating pinto beans during my cockroach problem to simplify sac identification. When a cockroach is poisoned, it can tend to wander around slowly like a drunk little bug. It took a full week for my cockroaches to explore my apartment and see all the traps. Many found the traps during the first night and died, but not all. It took me a few days to find the ones in my bedroom, so that delayed the end of the infestation. My cockroaches only come out at night. When I notice a cockroach, I grab my fly-swatter salt shotgun and shoot it. Cockroaches can sense and avoid big things coming after them, but they don't understand salt grain shots. They don't react to noise, so if the gun discharges but doesn't hit them, they don't move. The pain from the pellets (but only the pain) makes them freak out and run. Their evasion patterns are erratic because they assume that there's a predator they don't understand. I refuse to put these on my kitchen countertops, so the only bugs that I see now are the bugs whose scavenging grounds are my kitchen countertops.

Update: worked well and ran out after a little over 3 months so I bought a competitors version that was on sale. And the other traps didn’t work as well. I’m going to stick to these ones. I was skeptical these would work but I’ve used the same brand’s ant traps before which worked very well so I thought I’d give it a try. I live in a tropical climate, and once a month a ginormous roach will appear in the house to say hi. I scream. Whole family freaks out. It’s a mess. I got these to try and put one or two in the corner of EVERY room and bathroom. Now, every couple weeks I will find a slow moving smaller roach that obviously ate the bait, or a ded one. I haven’t had any more giant ones scare the living daylights out of me since I got these. Highly recommend.

work great, easy to use

Thank goodness for this product! We let a friend stay with us during Covid in 2020. Unknown to me he brought some unwanted visitors with him and it was about 6 months before I realized it so they had really taken hold and we had an infestation. I tried every product on the market and many natural remedies. We even moved and I sprayed ever box and piece of furniture with roach spray and we still had them in our new home. I battled them for years and was resigned to just living with them for the rest of my days, but hated it. Then my daughter told me she heard that Torro was a great product. I ordered 2-6 packs and put one in everyroom and several in the kitchen. I had to keep checking them and replace when the bait was eaten up( the faster it goes it lets you know how many bugs you have). Finally, hallelujah! No more bugs! I noticed if I got up during the night and went in the kitchen no bugs running from the light and the traps had all the bait left. So finally after 5 years, Torro, got rid of all our pests! If you have a bad infestation just keep up with changing them and be patient. Do not be cheap and buy enough traps to cover your home. I would say at least 1 in each room and several in the kitchen/bath(they go for the water). Put a trap anywhere you see them in your home. Be patient and vilagent, it will get rid of them. Caution- do not put them where dogs can get to them. I know it's supposed to be safe for pets but if your dogs love to chew like mine and can get to them they will chew open the plastic and eat the bait. The same smell that attracts the bugs attracts the dogs. One of our cheweenies got one and ate it. Thank goodness she was ok. Just be sure to put the traps in places the animals can't get to. It is easier since you can stick them higher up on the wall. Great product ! I would give this product 10 stars if I could!!!

I got this to combat 'sugar ants' which are very small ants. I couldn't tell that it was actually killing the ants, although eventually they diminished. But after removing the bait they returned in a couple of days. This may work better with larger type ants. I really dislike that the opening for the ants to enter the traps was about an eighth or quarter inch above the surface it sat on, so the ants could walk right by and never find the entrance. I had to tilt the traps and let some of the bait flow out in order to let the ants find it and enter the trap. This is a major design flaw in my opinion. Bottom line is that it seems to work to some degree, but the entrance is not flush with the surface it sits on and it doesn't seem to quickly kill the ants. I'm not saying it doesn't work, but it could do a better job.

This product does not work in dark areas. Like cabinets. Pantry under the sink ext.. I live in an apartment. I use the one for the ants and they work so I figured they would but there a no go

التغليف والحجم والشكل رائع اشتريته لاني شفت صرصور صغير طالع في المطبخ بالليل إلى الان ماشفت صراصير طلعت ميتة وما أعرف إذا انتهت من المطبخ او لا لان غالبا المصيدة لما احطها أبدا اشوف حشرات ميته لكن نفس الشكرة جربت نوع الي للنمل وكانت ممتازة اختفت تماما

I have been using the product for three weeks. The cockroaches are dying in the bathroom, but their colonies are not being eradicated. Disappointed, especially since I purchased the product based on its rating.

Waste of money the product is not working as the cockroach will not enter and eat the poison if you put it in a place where there is other food resources (food spill and leftovers) the cockroach will not interested in the trap . This product will only work if there is no other food resource for the cockroach to ear from