How to get rid of cockroaches?

Cockroaches are the most unwelcome guests in any apartment or house. Although they are eating up our scraps, they make some contribution to the cleaning of the dwelling, but the attitude towards them is invariably negative. Therefore, every person, finding an uninvited guest in the kitchen, asks: how to get rid of cockroaches?

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How to remove cockroaches?

Fighting domestic cockroaches is a long time ago. The owners of the apartments do not tolerate the neighborhood not only from the sense of disgust and dislike, but also because insects are carriers of various diseases, can bring a significant harm to the health of all living in the house. And if there are small children in the house, then out of curiosity they can catch an insect and even taste it - it's definitely unlikely anyone will like it.

Correctly choose the tool

Choose an effective remedy for cockroaches to date is not difficult, because due to high competition in the market of household chemicals, manufacturers are literally forced to produce the most effective and really powerful drugs. In each specific case, the best remedy for cockroaches will be different, since everything depends on the contamination of the apartment and the needs of the owners themselves.

Therefore, a suitable quality cockroach remedy should be selected according to the following set of criteria:

1. Efficiency is the most important criterion, because if the remedy is not effective, then, despite its availability and ease of use, and safety for people, it simply does not make sense to acquire it. A vivid example of such a tool is an ultrasonic repeller. The device is good, but really get rid of cockroaches it will not help.
2. The speed of the tool. Although this criterion is ambiguous, but some buyers buy products from it. One of the consumers needs to eradicate the Prusaks in one day to immediately clean the premises, and to some of the buyers this is not critical, and he is ready to carry out the destruction gradually, slowly.
3. Security. Even the most effective means against cockroaches will be inapplicable and unacceptable if it is necessary to wear not just ordinary respirators but wear chemical protection suits and gas masks.
4. Ease of use. Very often this criterion is the main one in choosing a remedy. Agree, the week you track all movements of cockroaches around the apartment and make and mold poisoned baits half a day, laying them along insect trails, where it's easier to spray aerosol in the apartment and achieve the desired result.
5. Price. Very often, an effective and quick-acting remedy for cockroaches, acquired in an amount capable of destroying parasites throughout the house, costs about as much as calling a professional pest control team.

Features of chemical preparations

When choosing a particular remedy specifically for your situation, consider the general drawbacks inherent in chemical preparations:

• After treatment, cockroaches do not disappear completely, but more often they simply become smaller.
• Unpleasant odor after disinsection, for example, from dichlorvos, carbofos and other chemicals.
• Chemicals are often dangerous and harmful not only for insects, but also for the health of animals and people living in the home. Vapors of pesticides significantly weaken the immunity and lead to a decrease in the body's ability to fight the pathogenic effects of the environment.

Important! Dry structure pesticides are dangerous if you get into the mucous membrane of a person.

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Fighting cockroaches

To combat cockroaches did not turn into a battle for survival, before using this or that method of disposal, familiarize yourself with the main features of insects and take them into account when applying this or that method.

The main features of cockroaches:

1. For insects, water is much more important than food. As soon as the apartment plunges into darkness, the cockroaches first look for a source of water. It can be a droplet on the floor, in a sink or toilet, and if the insect eats poison, but has time to drink water, it will not die.
2. Cockroaches are incredibly curious. Small insects examine all objects of interest to them with their antennae.
3. Insects are not able to warn their kinsmen of danger. Returning to the nest, the infected cockroach destroys the entire population.
4. Prusaks are incredibly resistant to physical damage. To a cockroach died, it should not just be slammed, but smeared in the truest sense of the word. Otherwise, the pest, finding the source of water, will come to life again and even produce offspring.
5. The most terrible poison for cockroaches is boric acid. In addition to the immediate death of an insect, boric acid causes in him inexpressible agony. The entire body of the cockroach covers infernal itching. Poisoned by acid, even the surviving cockroach will leave the place of infection as far as possible, never to return there.

Given all the features of the cockroaches, you can come up with several ways to destroy cockroaches.

Method No. 1

Sprinkle with boric acid powder all sources of water, including the bathroom, toilet, sinks. Handle the means of plinth, ventilation holes, trash can and all other places that can be the habitat of insects.

Boric acid is harmless not only for humans, but also for domestic animals. So do not feel sorry for her and boldly pour acid on all surfaces.

Important! To process the entire apartment to get rid of cockroaches, you need about 100 g of boric acid, so this is one of the cheapest and most effective ways.

Method # 2

Using the natural curiosity of insects, prepare a treat for them:

1. Mix 1 egg yolk and 50 g of boric acid.
2. Mix the ingredients until a thick slurry forms.
3. Blind several small balls( diameter 1 cm) from the prepared product.
4. Allow the cooked food to dry for about an hour.

Spread the balls in prominent places in the apartment, especially in the kitchen, in the toilet and in the bathroom.

Important! Spreading balls, choose those places that are best seen from the point of view of the cockroach: these are the surfaces of cabinets, shelves, window sills, etc. In the afternoon, remove the balls so as not to accidentally step on them, and put them back for the night, because the night isthe most active time for insects, and therefore get rid of cockroaches will be easier at this time of day. Especially if your methods are passive, and do not involve prolonged waiting for the enemy "on the warpath".

Useful advices:

• For prevention, from time to time treat the boric acid powder with ventilation holes so that the cockroaches do not run to you from neighbors.
• Before starting to fight cockroaches, carefully prepare:
  1. Wash all cabinets and cabinets in the kitchen thoroughly, using a detergent, and then wipe it dry thoroughly.
  2. All the dry products are packed in plastic bags to get rid of foreign odors.
  3. Pack all the napkins and soft paper in plastic bags.
  4. Wipe the table and the sink with a dry cloth.
  5. Ventilating holes and cracks tightly, so that unwanted guests do not appear.
  6. Throw out the garbage.

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Than to poison cockroaches?

To date, the best way to get rid of cockroaches is to treat the premises with insecticides. This method provides a quick result, as well as the possibility of applying it always and everywhere. We introduce you to the most famous chemical products, which are the least dangerous for humans.

Gel from cockroaches

By combining their properties, the most optimal means against insects are gels, since they have the following advantages:

• Inexpensive.
• Very effective.
• Low risk.
• The product does not contain fats, so after removing it with a damp cloth, there are no stains on the surface.
• Do not require temporary evacuation of residents.
• Easy to use.

Important! Insecticidal gel - a fairly strong remedy for cockroaches, as it immediately enters the digestive tract. Gels have an attractive scent, so pests come on them much more willingly than even the left crumbs of bread.

Special poisonous gels are sold in large syringes and are immediately ready for use: apply a poisonous agent with small droplets on the baseboard along the entire perimeter of the treated room with a distance of 10 cm between the droplets.

Important! With this method of treatment, cockroaches disappear after 3-7 days.

The most popular and known brands of gels:

1. Sturm gel paste. The preparation consists of two insecticidal components of different nature, due to which the product is universal.
2. Gel Fas. Effective drug is available in tubes of 75 ml.
3. Gel Globol. Successfully destroys cockroaches, even with a strong infection of the apartment. One drop of funds is enough to destroy 500 individuals. The German super-product is available in 100g tube. The only drawback is the high price.

Important! Gels are practically safe for children and animals, because they contain special bitterness which, if hit on the tongue of a pet or a child, will cause them to spit for a long time and never again collect drops from the floor.

Apply the gel in cases where you plan to fight the Prusaks gradually, without removing the tenants from the apartment. It is in these situations that gels are preferable to pencils, dusts and are much more effective than traps.

Aerosols

Aerosols are the most effective remedies for cockroaches based on powerful insecticides. The main advantage of aerosols is the speed and high rate of damage to insects.

Important! If the pest can think whether he has a bait or not, he can not breathe absolutely, namely with air and penetrates into his lungs the poisonous substance of the aerosol. Professional means for destroying pests are based on aerosol properties.

Aerosol formulations have a number of advantages and distinctive features:

• No odor. Aerosols either do not have a smell at all, or have a pleasant aroma for a person.
• Do not require special equipment. The agent is sprayed either from the container in which the preparation is sold or from a bottle intended for a conventional detergent with a spray.
• Safe. If you use the drug with safety, then no harm to health it will not bring.

It should be remembered that for the treatment of the room with spray, the following conditions must be met:

1. Remove all animals and people from the premises.
2. After processing the apartment, close it for a few hours, then carefully ventilate the room and do a wet cleaning.

The most famous and popular aerosols from cockroaches are:

1. Raptor. Effective remedy for all insects. Sold in convenient cylinders.
2. Raid. An effective insecticide, well advertised and holding the leading positions in the market.
3. Combatant. Korean remedy for insects. Has a scent of mint or lemon. It is a kind of air freshener with the function of destroying insects.
4. Get. A quality and reliable remedy for cockroaches, but unfortunately, today actively counterfeited.
5. Sinuzan. A professional remedy for pests. Very effective and allows for 1 treatment to quickly get rid of cockroaches, but extremely poisonous. It can be purchased only by employees of pest control services, and there is no free sale.
6. Tetrix. The most powerful remedy for cockroaches, but has a number of shortcomings. It has an unpleasant smell and is very toxic. Use it with extreme caution. Apply the drug is mainly a special team.

Important! When choosing which effective cure for cockroaches you get, assess the extent of the problem. If the house has seen 1-2 Cuts, then do not buy Get or Raptor, and if the house invasion of insects, then get the most powerful of all available.

Traps

Traps are the safest way for humans and pets to fight insects. In addition, they are easy to use, have a low price and do not require the expenditure of energy and time for pest control. Traps are small round boxes that have several insect entries. Inside the box is a poison, which cockroaches themselves and carry to their brethren.

The box has special Velcro and it can be attached anywhere.

Important! The most effective to date are Raid, Combat and Raptor.

Traps are made of cardboard or plastic. Plastic devices are characterized by both greater durability, and a greater price.

Used to destroy cockroaches and traps of another type - cardboard houses, sticky inside. In the center of the house there is an attractive bait for cockroaches. The insect is directed to it and sticks, staying there forever. Following the first cockroaches, new relatives come in, as the transmission of information from insects is completely absent. Thus, the entire colony of the Prusaks is exterminated.

Important! Prepare a simple trap yourself. To do this you will need a half liter pot, vegetable oil and honey. At the bottom of the jars, drip some honey, and grease the inner walls of the container with vegetable oil. Leave the jar at night in the kitchen, and in the morning, gathered in the cockroach container, shake out into the toilet.

Sticky houses are absolutely harmless for both humans and animals. When choosing this device does not matter the manufacturer. All boxes are effective, and cockroaches are stuck in any houses.

Crayons( pencils)

With proper use, crayons can also be quite effective. Once a week, use special chalks( pencils) to process plinths, cracks and other surfaces, and in a month the Prusaks will disappear from your home.

Important! The most popular crayons are "Mashenka" and "Titanic."

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Folk remedies for cockroaches

Our grandmothers also poisoned the cockroaches in the following way:

1. Mix the mashed potatoes with one cooked egg.
2. Add a few drops of boric acid to the treat.
3. Roll the balls.
4. Dry the balls in the sun or battery until they dry completely.
5. Spread the bait in all corners.

Important! A very effective way to get rid of cockroaches is to freeze an apartment or house. Adults and larvae of all species die with a temperature drop below -8 C. This method is absolutely safe, and most importantly - free of charge, so that residents of most of the CIS countries can use this method in winter.

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Prophylaxis for cockroaches

The most effective way to get rid of all pests is to establish complete cleanliness and keep the apartment in order. In order to create unbearable conditions for the life of cockroaches:

1. Make sure that there are no open food in the rooms. Hide all the leftovers in the refrigerator or pack in jars, tight plastic bags.
2. Thoroughly clean all work surfaces where crumbs, drops of meat or oil, and spilled beverages can be stored.
3. Dry all rubbish, bathroom, and utensils. In the absence of access to water, the Prusaks will immediately leave your home.
4. Get rid of the emerging places of shelter of insects: cracked skirting boards, peeling wallpaper, cracks in the parquet floor, etc.
5. Regularly ventilate the rooms.

All the ways that you can get rid of cockroaches will allow them to be destroyed, as they say, here and now. But none of the methods and none of the chemical means guarantees that in a week or a month the pests will not appear again. Therefore, to get rid of cockroaches once and for all, apply the above methods in combination with preventive methods and general improvement of the apartment.