Here's what nobody tells you about roach treatments.
You already know the obvious part: sprays, baits, traps, exterminators.
But here's the one thing nobody explained to me and it's why I failed every single time.
Roaches don't live on your countertops.
They live inside things.
Inside the cardboard structure of your moving boxes. Inside the motor housing of your microwave. Inside the hollow backing of your TV stand. Inside the wall voids your exterminator's spray never reached.
Here's the real problem nobody solves: Every treatment you've tried fights roaches where you can see them. But the colony the eggs, the nymphs, the hidden thousands live in places no spray, bait, or trap can access.
Spraying a surface kills what walks across it. It does nothing to what's living three inches behind your kitchen cabinet wall.
That's why they always come back. You've been fighting the symptom, not the source.
And when you pack your belongings to move, you're potentially packing the source with you.
I also learned something shocking about chemical treatments specifically.
German cockroaches have documented chemical resistance that builds across generations.
The more you spray, the more you're selecting for survivors that can tolerate your products.
One woman on the forum described it perfectly. She did multiple rounds of bug bombs. The next generation of roaches that emerged looked wrong deformed, barely recognizable. But they were still alive. And still multiplying.
Fighting roaches with chemicals is a game they're evolving to win.
