HEY THERES THIS ROACH KILLER STUFF IT COMBAT AND IT COMES IN A TUBE U PUT IT ALL AROUND UR HOUSE AND THE LIL BUGGIES EAT THE STUFF AND TAKE IT BACK TO THERE NESTS AND IT KILLS THE REST OF THEM IT WORKS GREAT I LIVE IN A ROW HOME WHERE MY NASTY DIRTY NIEGHBORS MOVED OUT IN THERE TRASH BAGS A COUPLE DAYS LATER I STARTED SEEIN THEM IN MY HOME I GUESS THEY HAD NO WHERE TO GO WELL LET ME TELL U WITHIN A MONTH TIME IT WAS LIKE THE MULITPLED IN 100S IN MY HOME I WENT I GOT THAT COMBAT ITS IN A BLACK AND GOLD CONTAINER IT LOOKS LIKE CAULK BUT IT WORKS WITHIN THE NEXT 2 MONTHS WE HAD ZERO BUGS THANK GOD BUT BORAC ACID DOES NOT WORK ITS CRAP!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK AND PLEASE TAKE MY ADVICE IT WORKS

I have both roaches and those huge centipedes as well... but cannot get myself to crush them so I capture them in a towel and then release them outside (after walking down three flights of stairs etc...). I would love to get rid of them permanently.

I woke up to a roach in bed with me for the second time in 3 years. I am desperate.

Can you buy boric acid at CVS or a pharmacy? Do you make it into a compound by mixing it with an unboiled egg?

We have them in New York like you wouldn't believe. Be thankful they aren't rats. I step on them. Spray some roach killer around the baseboards and in any cracks, but do it in the morning with a fan and open window so it's ventilated by the time you get back.

Odd that you would have both. I'm in the Arlington area too, and seem to get those common house centipedes, but after reading how beneficial they are (they eat pretty much every other creepy crawly) I decided to not worry as much (they don't .... BUG me.. ).

Anyway, back in TX we used to get frightfully large roaches. We used boric acid (generally sold as borax in some grocery stores) mixed into a compound and placed in cabinets and other trouble areas.

I'm not 100% how harmful it is for small pets, but if you make sure to hide it well, or put it where your 4 legged friends can't get to, should do the trick. Though I am not sure if it works on the centipedes.