How to get rid off Cockroaches?
Question:SICK of them.i fear a lot but, cant find any way to get rid off them...used many times, insect killers, but after 1 or 2 days they come back...any natural way to get rid of them, like, if i keep any special things in any place where they come usually - they wont come any more? like, if u keep the smashed termarind in any corner no ants will come - is there any treatment like this for Cockroaches?
Answers:
there are many different natural things you can use and you should get some ideas here, but if you have an infestation and especially if there German cockroaches i doubt you will get it under control yourself
i suggest you call a pest controller to get rid of the problem then use the other methods to keep the problem from reoccurring
by the way borax is poison
it is inorganic and is of relatively low mammalian toxicity.
it kills by disrupting the conversion of energy within the cells
so be careful spreading it around
use boric acid to make a line wherever you do not want them to cross. They cannot cross boric acid. So you need to kill there water source, without this they cant survive. Also make a perimeter so they stay out. Chances are your neighbors have this problem and they are coming from over there after you kill them in your house. Use the Roach motels and a perimeter of boric acid they will be gone also eliminate water sources by perimeter of boric acid.
An enviroment-friendly-method that I use is gather all old left over beers and pour an inch or two high in cans put them under plants around your garden and also under your sink, in dark places and also where you always see them. After a day or two you'll find many drowned in the can it also attracts slug,snails and leeches. Throw in the trash and pour beer again to catch the new ones. Good luck and God bless you.
Okay, Heres the skinny on that. I have never had a bug. Wherever I move , it starts out bugs, but once I am there...no mo ever ever ever. Heres the trick. Boric Acid. Go to your Dollar Store and purchase a huge bottle of it, usually in the laundry detergent dept. Make sure it says like 98% Boric Acid. Shouldnt cost but 2-3 dollars.
Take it home and spread it behind everything. It is a powder. Under the sink, behind stove, refrigerator, threshholds of doors, outside around doorways, windows, behind washer dryer, bathroom, in cabinets, sweeping it against the walls all the cracks and crevices, lining the walls, get the picture?
Now to explain about this stuff. You never have to clean it up. Leave it. It is not a poison, so it wont harm your pets. It does not work immediatly, but once it kicks in, THEY ARE GONE FOREVER. Once the bug crawls across it, it sticks to their feet and body, they drag it back to the nest, it gets all over the rest of them. It slices them up on the inside. Like glass in their systems. Once they are dead, the particles are there, and the newly hatched eggs have to walk over it to demolish the whole bunch. Once that happens. It's done. Thats why it takes a while to kick in. If one happens to get in, give it a day or two and it will die. So if you are in an apartment, you can kill those too. Because they will eventually go back and infest the rest. It works on anything that crawls.
Now give me the 10 points!! Lol!
Natural Insect Repellents
To kill roaches/ants - Lay out bread crumbs/honey and mix with boric acid (be careful b/c this stuff is poisonous) and aspartame _ THIS IS A TRAP!
Ants: Dried cucumber slices, Soapy Water in Spray Bottle, mint tea, cayenne pepper, citrus oil, lemon juice, cinnamon and coffee grounds
Roaches/Waterbugs: Lay small bottles of boric acid on the side and put on top of cabinets or corners, catnip (they hate it), soapy water in spray bottle will kill them almost instantly, bay leaves in the cracks, dried cucumber slices, and hedgeapple
Mosquitoes: Eucalyptus oil w/ 70% cineole, and neem oil. Also mix some garlic and water and rub on your skin.
Flies: Mint, Bay leaves, and eucalyptus oil
Moths: Soak some cloth in cedar oil and hang it up, dry lemon peels in closets and other places.
Good Luck!
Start with removing sources of food. They love fast food - oil, white flour, and sugar. They can also eat soap. Clean the surfaces that human beings normally see, then clean the dark areas where cockroaches live. Clean behind and under your fridge, clean your pantries. When the mess is cleaned up, put every food-like item into plastic containers (like tupperware), and make it so no cockroach could get in.
If theres anything that a cockroach loves more than living in the dark covered in its own waste its doing that with 100,000 other cockroaches. Sanitize all surfaces that would otherwise be covered in roach manure. Bring light and cleanliness into the areas where they would live.
Keep the perimeters of your home secured so that no cockroach can live through it.
Try buying roach traps, specifically the ones that kill the eggs too. Killing the offspring means that eventually the rest will die.
If you use bug bombs, don't fill your house with them and stay inside. Exit first, and don't start any fires.
Call the pest control guys and ask them.
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