Boric acid from cockroaches: to use or not?

Cockroaches remain a problem for many housewives, and if there is no desire to call special services, it is necessary to solve the issue by popular means. Boric acid from cockroaches has long been one of the most consumed cockroaches of substances. In every apartment at least once tried to feed her with hated insects.

Boric acid: the distinguishing features of

The remedy attracts by the lack of odor and availability in each pharmacy. White scaly grains of taste also do not have and are resistant to high temperatures. In the natural environment, the acid itself is extremely rare, it is much more often possible to detect its salt - borax. It is noteworthy that salt and acid for cockroaches are equally pernicious.

Pharmacies offer boric acid in powder, aqueous and alcoholic solutions. Strictly speaking, a well-known antiseptic called "boric alcohol" is just a 70% solution of boric acid.

Safety

Many owners who have small children or animals in the apartment are afraid to use boric acid. In this respect, it is not necessary to worry much: the most terrible thing that can happen is an allergic reaction. It is unpleasant, but not fatal, to strong allergens this remedy does not apply, and it is necessary to properly wear it out in order to achieve such a result from the body.

Bura is even used as a food supplement. In Russia it is banned, but it is a question of its regular and significant consumption. So you can safely go into battle with boric acid and its products in the arsenal: it is possible to take out insects in the apartment without harm to the kids and their pets.

Mode of action

The meaning of using the powder is that its special properties do not allow the cockroaches to detect the danger. In this regard, it is significant that the struggle with alcohol solution is not effective because of the sharp odor.

Once eaten, the substance enters the digestive system. From there, by blood, it affects the nerves, acting on the peripheral centers with tremendous force. When a large dose of insects die from paralysis of the respiratory tract.

Council

Mites such a tool in the apartment can not withdraw, they suck blood and therefore can not eat a poison in any way.

Eaten should be a significant amount of substance, so for many years the mistresses are trying to create for cockroaches recipes for delicacies with a taste of perfection and at the same time with a lethal dose of poison. After all, for each nasty insect, 2-3 mg of acid is needed. When developing a recipe, it is necessary to take into account a certain amount that will not fall on the way of the invaders of the apartment.

advice Sometimes there are insects that are already so accustomed to such harassment that their body has adapted and does not react to the substance. In such cases, it will be necessary to use more effective and toxic agents, which have been produced recently, for fighting.

Ways of using

In order to get rid of cockroaches, it is necessary to "fill" them with poison. Naturally, you can not feed them with a spoon, you will have to pay attention to where the insects are most often found, and to poison them in those places. How to do it right? The first step is a general cleaning, which will deprive additional sources of food for all parasites and cause them to be interested in traps. Floors and walls, sinks and bedside tables. Even behind the toilet bowls, we need to carefully follow, leaving them closed, and, therefore, to deprive uninvited tenants of the usual source of drinking.

There are quite a lot of folk recipes that will help get rid of cockroaches.

1. The simplest recipe with which you can poison parasites is simply to prepare the poured portions in the places of the proposed dislocation of insects. Of course, they will not want to eat powder, they will run along it, completely oblivious, and then clean their paws with their jaws, eating the prepared poison. The result of the struggle will not come too quickly, but it will not be necessary to exert any effort either.
2. The dried shell can greatly upset cockroaches, which you should always drink. By placing side by side with a familiar watering-point water solution, you can quickly draw the attention of the entire colony and stuff it with boric acid to the dump. This recipe is also very simple, but it can cause some inconvenience: it is not advisable to use a sink for several days not to supply insects with a clean drink.

Happens, cockroaches appear quite suddenly and in huge numbers. Then, to get rid of them, the only measure you can not do is to put additional baits.

Let's quote the most "delicious" among folk recipes.

• Mix the gruel from the egg yolk of one egg and 40-50 g of boric powder. The yolk of a chicken egg has an attractive scent and taste.
• Equal portions of powder, flour and sugar powder are mixed with water in a flexible dough.
• 200 grams of powder, 60 grams of starch and powdered sugar, 2 sachets of vanilla sugar should be put on the same dough.
• Mashed potatoes from one potato with one peeled boiled egg with the addition of 1 tbsp.spoons of powder.

Consistency makes it easy to knead and mold small balls that are laid out in the places where the insects stay. All other products are cleaned especially carefully, down to the smallest crumbs. This will help speed up the feeding of cockroaches with poisoned beads-balls. Even in lockers it is best to pack everything in tightly closed jars and bags.

If the apartment is old, not repaired for a long time, it was operated without sufficient following the rules of sanitation, balls of boric acid for effective struggle will not suffice. All the same, a few insects will hide through the cracks and find what to soak. To get rid of annoying "neighbors", you will need to seek help from stronger chemical agents or professionals who can etch them quickly and reliably.

In general, boric acid is not a panacea for apartment insects, but its use is popular among housewives. There are several reasons, but they are weighty:

• is safe;
• is cheap;
• is available.

Buy the drug can be in any pharmacy or on the Internet, it's very simple to use, only cockroaches will be harmed. And the fact that it will not be possible to achieve an ideal result, few people are afraid: still the new hordes will not slow to appear in the apartment.