North Carolina pest control company will pay you $2,000 to have 100 cockroaches in your home
Could money persuade you to live with 100 cockroaches crawling around your house? A North Carolina pest control company is offering $2,000 to homeowning families willing to take in 100 roach roommates for an experiment.
"As technology advances, we’re always looking for the newest and greatest ways to get rid of pests (cockroaches specifically)," ThePestInformer said in a news release. "In this study, we’re willing to pay homeowners $2,000 for us to release American cockroaches into your home."
The PestInformer said it is looking for five to seven families to open up their homes, where 100 cockroaches would be released and stay for 30 days while being filmed "to gauge how effective this treatment is." Online applications will be accepted through July 31, according to the company's website.
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David Floyd, founder of ThePestInformer, told NBC News more than 2,200 families had applied as of Monday.
Exterminators generally use a gel bait containing insecticides to kill cockroaches, but the new method is designed to be "more DIY treatments with materials and ingredients that someone can purchase themselves and that are safe to family and pets."
ThePestInformer has been in the Raleigh area for more than a decade and advertises itself as a company "producing high-quality pest resources to help homeowners across the country." American cockroaches are one of the five most common cockroach species in the U.S., which has 55 species of the insects, according to Western Exterminator Co and PestWorld.org.