Do not live over the complex basura (bin area).

You may see a slight rise in the little critters due to the rubbish strike that has just finished.

Red Oro spray - comes in big red tin, found by the fly sprays, lasts for 1 year, spray over thresholds, if they cross it, they die in minutes & anything else creepy crawlie too.

Wonderful stuff

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Thanks folks for your input. We are bringing Broxi, our chocolate labrador over so hope to be fortunate enough to rent to accommodate him, a wee bit of garden as he has been used to a huge garden here. I cannot see him being any less frightened of the horrors than me as he runs from a bluebottle!

We had a horrible experience on Teguiste Villas, opposite Sunset Bay, one year just after they had had their drains done but that area, even the street, seems to be riddled with them. They seem to run like wild dogs in packs.

Sorry Treb but I was actually thinking of you when I posted but you do make me laugh, so thank you too. Hope you and Molly are doing OK.

Never seen one up here in Chayofa/Aguilas del Teide.

We had a lot of cockroaches when we first rented a house in El Medano. But I think that is because it had been shut up for 6 months. Eventually the cockroaches left after a serious amount of cleaning and poison.

We have now brought a place in El Medano and so far have had only one cockroach.

I really hate them, but its Tenerife you will see them occasionally, unfortunately.

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I live in the ultra modern Ten Bell in the metropolis that is Costa Del Silencio, and you know what?...I have never had any cockroaches in the villa.

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We have never had a cockroach .... But we live near the Chinese restaurant...

We agree - Daddy was at the flat in Valle last week and no beasties. We now live in Granadilla and none here - well, the odd one blown in with a calima, but none crawling on the ground. So it is definately true, the higher up you are the less likely you are to encounter any.

And, things are relative - if you were on the island 10 or 15 years ago, Los Cristianos was rife with the little beasties as well as cats, so life is better now.

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We had a problem with them in our appartment in Medano when we had a dirty family in the next door appartment no way could we keep them out

However once the people next door went they seemed to take the problem with them

No problem for a while now

We've rarely seen any and certainly not in our apartment but we do get the odd infestation of tiny ants. Well, until we educated ourselves and our guests not to leave any food out

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