***UPDATED REVIEW - OCTOBER 16, 2020, PLEASE READ IN ITS ENTIRETY We've been dealing with an infestation for long enough that I was ready to burn my house down and be done with it. After getting these, I immediately placed a few around my kitchen, I didn't even go through additional steps to clean, I just wanted something down before I laid down to take a nap. TWO HOURS LATER......out of the nine tablets I placed, three were completely covered with roaches, three were already gone, two were crushed and the other two had enormous chunks chewed out of them. But what got me the most was the sheer lack of interest in me when I was checking on the tablets, normally when a roach sees a human they are high tailing it off whatever they're on. The ones eating the tablets could have cared less that I was even there. It was almost like they were gorging themselves on the tablet. I know it's going to take more time to get rid of them all, but I am extremely happy with what I saw, I mean, two hours later! That was the best thing I saw and I finally feel like I'm going to get rid of these things once and for all. ***It's now been almost two weeks since the start of our application of these tablets and I wish I could tack on a few more stars to my original review. The sheer number of roaches we have been seeing has been in a drastic, steady decline over the last few days and thought I would take the time to offer up some tips that worked for us, not to mention take care of some of the negative reviews I read. First and foremost, this is war. If you have roaches, spreading roach bait around and then not following up with it will not give you the results you need. If your kitchen is dirty, clean it and leave nothing untouched, it needs to look as clean as it did the day you moved into your house/apartment/condo. If you have a steam cleaner, break it out and steam everything, including your appliances, walls, ceilings, floors. Take everything out of the cabinets and steam clean them. Rewash your dishes, you've GOT to remove every single roach trace that you can and you've GOT to get rid of any food that will be more enticing to them than the tablets. If you see brown spots, those needs to be eradicated, those spots are actually roach feces. They not only eat it but it signals to other roaches that there is a nearby food or water source. Bleach will do, steam is better, both will be a great knockout punch. Roach nests are easy to spot but hard to find, if you see more than six roaches hanging out in a corner, that's a nest. Destroy the nest and the roaches will scatter. Steam and bleach, I can't say that enough because it disrupts their 'signal' spots and causes them to run. By doing all of this, you are going to stir them up and it's going to be a full-on invasion, but that's what you want. They're going to scurry around looking for other places to nest, food and water sources. Once you've cleaned your kitchen from top to bottom, place the tablets. Put them in your cabinets, under your appliances, anywhere that you've seen the highest traffic of roaches, but away from pets and children. In our early days of the tablets, we would place tablets and go back in a few hours later and they were gone, they ate the entire tablet. When you see one tablet missing, immediately replace it with a fresh one. Inspect the other tablets multiple times a day if you can, if they start to look like Swiss cheese and you don't see a lot of roaches on it, replace it with a new one and dispose of it properly. This kind of kill is NOT instant like some of the negative reviews seem to believe, this is a slow death situation. If you see a roach crawl over a tablet and not eat it, it doesn't mean it's not working. Boric acid is a fine, fine powder and the second it touches it, it signed its own death warrant. Boric acid works three ways, a physical death because it eats away the waxy coating that roaches have on them to protect them, then burrows in deeper to dehydrate the roach. They also track that powder with them all the way to their nest as well, so they're killing the nest, too. When they eat the tablet, it starts to disrupt the roach's digestive system and neurological system. After they eat it and you see one walking around drunk or actually doesn't run from you a day or two later, that's the acid killing it from the inside out. I've had roaches actually walk up to me and hang out like we were best friends. I squashed and killed it, but that just let me know the acid was working. You're going to see roaches crawling around for a while, but you'll start to see the numbers diminish. If you see a roach that looks like it has a square shaped hind-end, you need to kill it immediately and dispose of the body, that's the female and the oblong attachment is actually an egg case. I've purposely started to target any female with an egg case, doesn't matter where or when I see her, she's toast, so consider this move as well. If you destroy a female wit...
