Gel from cockroaches

The most common indoor "animals" are cockroaches, and unfortunately, we are not talking about those that are bredin the terrarium specifically, but about those that are populated in our homes completely without demand and bring their presence of significant harm. Choosing a cure for cockroaches, often consumers are wondering: is it sufficiently effective and at the same time safe for human health. Professional disinsectors consider the cockroach gel to be the most effective means, having a high insecticidal effect and the least toxic for humans.

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Anti-cockroach gel

Every day cockroaches migrate between different rooms, adapting to a variety of poisons and developing immunity to the remedies that are used against insects. Many pests die under the influence of drugs, but unfortunately, some individuals survive and escape to other rooms, houses and apartments, no longer reacting to the poison that they are offered there.

Today, there are a variety of tools for fighting insects. This is very popular among consumers, and democratic in price traps, insecticide crayons, pencils, aerosols, gels from cockroaches.

Important! Unfortunately, most of the popular means among consumers are not always effective and are completely powerless in cases of massive infection of housing with cockroaches. This is due to the low content of powerful insecticides in such products, but for the same reason they are the least safe for humans.

Aerosols and gels from cockroaches have a higher efficiency. A few minutes after spraying the spray, insects begin to run out of secluded corners and die. The advantage of aerosols in the ease of use and high penetrating power.

Important! Although the insecticide in the form of an aerosol guarantees the rapid destruction of adult cockroaches, however, it also has the following drawbacks:

• When spraying a product, a man voluntarily does not inhale poisonous vapors.
• Insecticides in the form of aerosols do not affect already laid eggs.
• Does not last long.
• Has a strong enough unpleasant odor, which can cause allergic reactions.

Summing up all of the above, it is quite understandable why it is insecticidal gels from cockroaches that are deserved reputation. They have not only high efficiency and are produced in convenient tubes or large syringes, but also allow to avoid during the application of toxic effects on the human body.

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Advantages of gels against cockroaches

According to the statement of manufacturers of similar products, even large cockroaches leave or die after a weekly use of the gel. After the specified time, the drug can be easily washed off the surfaces. The main advantages of the drug are:

• Highest efficiency.
• Easy to use.
• The gel is available in the form of tubes filled with insecticide paste.
• Preparations are fully ready for use immediately after unpacking.
• Cost-effective use. In addition to the insecticide, the gels have a fat base that prevents drying out. It retains its properties for several months.
• Gels from cockroaches do not have toxic effects on humans.
• Safety for people and pets. The composition of most gels includes a special bitter substance, which allows you to prevent eating of the drug by young children or pets.

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Use of the preparation

Since tubes and syringes are initially fully ready for use, they do not need to be collected as traps or cooked as beads with boric acid. However, before calculating the effect of use, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with the rules of application of the drug. Together with the closed package of insecticide, detailed instructions describing the entire processing process are attached.

As a rule, the instructions for using the drug are the same for all manufacturers and contain the following items:

1. Wear gloves to protect your hands.
2. Cut the tube so that the contents turn into an elastic and easily extrudate.
3. Spot, on a few droplets, apply the product on the baseboard, places of congestion and the way of movement of insects.

Important! For reasons of economy, apply the preparation with a dashed line.

1. After a week, rinse the product off the treated surfaces.

Useful advices:

• If you doubt the effect of the drug on the surface, then proceed as follows: Take a sheet of paper or paperboard and cut it into small strips or pieces, apply to the prepared pieces of paper the preparation and spread the independently prepared feeders to the habitats of insects.
• Keep ghee against cockroaches in tightly closed containers, away from
• products. You can use gel preparations for preventive purposes: prepare several paper substrates and arrange them in the expected places of insect penetration.
• Buy gel from cockroaches of only well-known brands that protect their products from counterfeiting by applying special holographic, hard-to-counterfeit characters.

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Principle of action of the gel

The agent acts on cockroaches as follows:

• Has a toxic contact-intestinal effect. Insects take the gel from cockroaches for ordinary food and eat it. The insecticide gets along with the gel in the digestive organs.
• The poison penetrates even at the slightest touch of the remedy to the insect. Upon contact with the preparation, the insecticide penetrates through the tissues of the insect and enters its body.
• Breaks the nervous system of insects. A few hours later, infected parasites have paralysis, and they die.
• The infected individual, communicating with the relatives, also poisons them. There comes an irreversible domino process, and the entire population dies as it infects its individuals.

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The most popular gel means

The following are the most purchased, so popular among consumers and really effective:

• "Global" gel.
• "Raptor".
• "Absolute-gel".
• "Brownie".
• "Dohloks".
• "Combatant".
• "Fas" gel.
• "The Trap".

Important! The effectiveness of the action of a given drug depends on the concentration of the active substance. For example, in the preparations "Absolute", "Global" and "Raptor", an incredibly potent chlorampyrifos poisoning preparation with a contact-intestinal method is considered to be the main one. And in the basis of the drug "Combat" the active ingredient is hydromethylnon, which infects insects not only when it is eaten, but also with minimal contact with the chitinous shell of the insect. The insecticide blocks the work of the nerve cells of the cockroach.

Let's get acquainted with some preparations closer.

"Global" gel

A popular product is produced in a plastic tube with 75 ml, has a sharp tip for easy application. The product has a weak chocolate odor and has a cream-brown color, due to the content of cocoa butter in it as a fat base.

The complex component composition is of German origin, which is the reason for the high price of this product.

Important! With the help of a tube, you can treat the territory to 80 m2, and clean it from the colony of cockroaches. The gel, according to the manufacturer, is completely safe for people and does not cause allergies.

Raptor

The product not only effectively poisons adults who are bait, but also relatives in the nest that will contact the infected. A remedy is available in the form of a tube of 75 ml, and it is enough to process two standard rooms.

The pointed tip of the tube allows you to use the tool in hard-to-reach places, for example, behind skirting boards. As a bait, the manufacturer uses natural aromas of vanilla and apricot.

Important! The manufacturer guarantees active action of the drug for up to 8 months, after which the product is easily removed from all surfaces, including furniture, without a sticky trace.

"Absolute" gel

Insecticidal product is available in lavish tubes of 125 ml. It is enough to handle several rooms. The tube has a rather convenient thin tip, with which you can use the tool in hard-to-reach places.

The most active gel begins to affect cockroaches on the second day after the initial treatment. Apply the gel, as well as other similar insecticides, pointwise, along the paths of the parasites.

Important! With an average number of insects, only 0.5-0.7 g of the drug per 1 m2 of the room is enough. With proper use of the drug, after 25-35 days in the apartment there will be no parasite left.

"Brownies" and "Dohloks"

These cockroach gels are a viscous mass in a 20-30 ml syringe. One drug is enough for processing 50 m2.The price of the money is quite democratic. Specially designed bait attracts insects, poisoning them.

Important! You can use the drug not only to combat cockroaches, but also to destroy red ants. The residual action of the gels persists for about 2 months.

"Combat Super Gel" remedy

Quite popular among consumers due to high efficiency. The brownish gel is based on the goose liver, which actively attracts insects to the poison.

The modern insecticide of hydramethylnonon leads to the rapid death of insects, and the shape of the syringe allows the application of the poison in the most inaccessible places without the slightest effort.

Important! The drug is produced in the form of a syringe with a volume of 30 ml and it is sufficient for processing 50 m2.Manufacturers recommend using the cockroach gel along with the "Combat" traps for greater effect.

"Fas" and gel "Kapkan"

They have jelly beige or cream color. The preparations contain two highly active insecticides, each of different chemical nature in its composition, in the case of cockroach immunity to one of the substances.

The cypermethrin contained in the preparations paralyzes the nervous system not only of adults, but also of larvae. The action of the agent is intestinal-contact.

Important! Tubes of 75 ml are enough for processing 90 m2.Residual active effect of the remedy lasts about 2 months.

In addition to the above mentioned means, many other drugs can be found on the market, in the choice of which you should be guided by the instruction, advice from friends and reviews on the Internet.

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Precautions

Regardless of what remedy for cockroaches you use, remember the precautionary measures, use gloves and a respirator during treatment of premises. However, no, even the best, will not help if you do not take preventive measures to protect the house from insects:

• The kitchen should not have a dripping tap or a leaking pipe that will create a permanent, accessible source of water for the parasites.
• Food should not be freely available, and garbage must be regularly taken out.
• Install small insect screens on windows and air vents.

All these measures, combined with the use of modern means of parasites, will help you get rid of uninvited "guests" forever.