While you can purchase specific poisons and bait traps for cockroaches in hardware stores, you can also make progress in getting rid of and preventing cockroaches with some natural solutions.

While there are no techniques that are 100% effective, hopefully some of the insect traps and deterrents listed here can make your summer a more enjoyable one.

That’s because roaches—particularly the German cockroach, which is most commonly found in homes—have actually become resistant to most sprays on the market, making sprays essentially useless ...

And the idea that roaches will survive til the end of time just got a boost: Scientists discovered that some of the little buggers have evolved to outwit our poison roach traps.