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I think they're celebrating a little too soon. A few years ago I lived in a roach infested apartment in Seattle and we used every form of pesticide imaginable, essentially to no effect. We were finding them in our food, inside kettles, etc. It maybe wasn't as bad as the waves the post described.

I guess this quote from the article even admits that roaches have become wiser and are on the rise again:

So, roach numbers are slowly going up again. And if you read publications of the Pest Management Association newsletter, which maybe I’ve done recently, you can see that there’s, you know, there’s some chatter about how roach calls are increasing.

Okay, so I pulled some numbers. I went to the American Housing Survey from the federal government. In 2011, 13.1 million estimated households had signs of cockroaches in the last 12 months. In 2021, 14.5 million.