Roaches in Compost bin?

So long as the roaches stay where they are, they're going to help compost the coffee grinds a lot faster than just waiting on bacteria and fungus to do the trick.

If they start getting inside, your wife's gonna hit the roof.

Best: Get rid of the compost or move it faaaaaar away from the building and hope for the best.

Better than Best: Hire a professional pest control company to treat the outside of the building all the way around to prevent roaches inside in the first place.

It's all part of nature's way. Now you're kind of seeing how maybe all the "natural" things that we used to do fell out of favor and how society went a different direction with waste disposal decades ago. Compost is decaying matter, and it's not a peace-and-love pristine process. It rots and stinks and steams draws creepy crawly things to it that love rot and stink. These are all the same things that we don't want to live on top of to a great degree. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, but your discovery does give some opportunity for insight into the dilemmas with waste disposal.

Compost correctly and then leave it all alone and let nature take its course.

Hello,

everything you put into that compost bin is food to such bugs....roaches are supposed to be the longest living thing on earth for they eat anything.

These things even eat newspaper, egg cartons on and on.

The geckos eat such bugs as roaches (used to raise hissing bugs, a roach, for such things as geckos to eat).

So more then likely they were always there and it is nice and warm for the bugs so they laid there egg sacks in there. Keep turning it and the geckos (and hopefully birds) will take care of them.

The egg sacks are long and whitish. See this and destroy it!!

Smoke, fire (of course) also runs off bugs.

Good luck......

Your compost bin is likely to be full off all sorts of insects. They help it to decompose.

that is wicked nasty.....but it is outside and as foul as they are roaches do live outside....that being said they most likely are seeking shelter from the geckos......if you exterminate them you will get pesticides in your compost ......catch some geckos and put them in there