Any home remedy to remove cockroaches from my kitchen?
Question:will a mixture of boric acid powder and flour keep them away? please help me from this menace in a natural eco friendly way!
Answers:
Boric acid is the preferred way.
If you are really serious about not seeing them again, then go to the store and buy yourself a lot of caulking.
Remove all items from your cabinets, move your fridge, your oven..etc, and seal up every corner and crack you can find. Open all your wall sockets, pour some of the Boric acid powder in there, and then close them up. be sure to caulk them as well.
The only true way to stop them from entering, is to cut off all points of entry - because once you have them...you always will, unless you take the needed steps to stop the little bastards.
Good luck!
Yes boric acid. When I was in college/rental apt. lots of roaches and I didn't want to spray so I did a line of boric acid around the edge of cabinets and around pipes where they were coming in so they would walk through it. It worked.
I heard that if you pull up the edges of your rug and sprinkle boric acid powder under the padding and between the padding and the rug that will discourage the cockroaches. There are also Raid roach motels that work great but you have to keep them out of the reach of children and animals. You can also fog your place with foggers a couple of times and then once a year. The eco friendly way is to move to a second floor apartment and then spray around your door and windows from the outside. It seems to me that as long as there is "movement" of people within a home bugs hide. If say a person goes to the hospital for a few days and food is setting out, or dog food is always sitting out or garbage isn't removed promptly, or beer cans are sitting around then, well, that's part of what brings in the bugs. Sometimes cockroaches are brought in on storage boxes, or in bags from the grocery store, or if you live in an apartment they are brought into your apartment when people move out or move in. Things undisturbed for a while may have sleeping bugs in them. Remember though that when you see one cockroach there are babies somewhere and they multiply. So when you fog you have to fog a few times in succession and then keep after them. Just because they are in the kitchen doesn't mean they're not throughout your house. Check all the packages and boxes in your pantry for bugs and put them all in plastic containers or airtight bags. And then put some of those containers into the refrigerator. Be sure to bug spray your trash can and your garbage can and entrance ways.
By the way, cocoroaches "may" be attracted to flour: I wouldn't use flour. I hear they are also attracted to drywall and paper so you "may" need to use those foggers to get them to leave.
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