My sister finished her teaching degreee - and completed her first year of teaching at an inner city school in Phoenix.  She came to visit me during the summer break and brought LICE with her.

It was apparently not part of the curriculum to learn about that.  She had never dealt with it in her life and had wondered why her head itched so much.

UGH!

For every roach you see there ae 10 you don’t see.  Get rid of any and all boxes since that is where they lay the majority of their egg cases.  You may have to get someone in to spray the house.

OMG!! YUCKO!  Thank God jake didn’t bring home any visitors, at least that I have seen yet. maybe I should investigate....

I don’t know anything about dealing with them, fortunately I have never had to deal with them.  Good luck.

Oh man, if I end up having to get an exterminator in here to spray, I’m going to be so flaming mad.

I’d guess then, that the cardboard CD cases might just be a problem, then. If I enclose them all in a trash bag and spray inside it, will that kill eggs in any egg cases?

He didn’t bring any other cardboard boxes home. The mode of packing these days seems to be duffel bags stuffed to the gills and plastic trash bags.

These are very small roaches...probably very young ones. Oh great. I hope they hatched before everything arrived here. How long does it take before they mature enough to lay more eggs?

Crap. This isn’t how I wanted to spend the summer.

Joann, we went through the lice thing when the lad was in first grade. I spent a couple of “pleasant” evenings with a white towel draped over my lap, combing through the lad’s very blond hair, extracting lice and nits after an application of a lice killing shampoo. Also washed and cooked (in the dryer) everything that wasn’t nailed down. We had no further problems. It wasn’t one of our top ten fun experiences. His teacher was none too pleased, though she’d been through it several times before, over the years. All her students had to submit to lice checks and were sent home if any were found. For a couple of weeks, she only had about half her class sitting at their desks at any given time. The children couldn’t return to class until they passed a rigorous inspection at the nurse’s office. Not an inner city school, by any measure. It can and does happen anywhere. Lice apparently spread like wildfire. Fun times.

They were always a problem when we lived in the city.  Hated them and yes, hard to get rid of.  IF he had any furniture that he brought home with him, then check any cavity, any little tiny hole cause odds are they are living and laying eggs in there.  Had a very unpleasant experience with chairs someone gave us when we lived in Boston--actually we traded what we had with someone else.  The legs had openings in the bottom and weeks later we discovered what was living in there.  Gross, still makes my skin crawl.
I would call the school cause even if they have exterminators in, unless they get all the furniture in all the rooms nothing is going to be really gone.
There is something you can put around that is not harmful to pets that will help to get rid of them.  Maybe baking soda??  Epsom salts?  Something white and powdery.  If you need to call someone in, I can recommend someone… Good Luck and now I am all itchy just thinking about them. 

When he goes back to school make sure he takes containers for any food that can be properly sealed and that will help.

Fortunately, he brought no furniture home with him this time, other than the fridge and microwave. I’m not sure how to deal with those, though, for the time being, I put them in huge trash bags with roach motels. The bags are tightly sealed. Nuthin’s getting in or out.

We’ve been gradually shaking out and washing all the stuff in the bags we hauled outside the other night. There really is virtually nothing left that he came home with, that hasn’t been removed to the outdoors and/or sealed up. I also bought some Raid roach spray to douse the contents of the bags containing items that can be washed. It runs against my grain to use that stuff, but roaches are worse in my humble opinion.

I hope we caught it early enough. Oh, I do hope so.

I’m thinking...a dorm full of college guys....slob city. Perfect domain for roaches. I’ll send him back with containers for food, but that doesn’t guarantee their use, you understand. ;)