How to get rid of cockroaches quickly, easily, permanently
Do It Yourself Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
At night you went to the kitchen to eat, but instead found a cake crumbs and scattered baleen swallow? Congratulations, it Cockroaches! But it is necessary not to be afraid, and read how to make a trap, what to buy at the pharmacy, the insects are gone and than wash the floor, never to return.
How to understand that in an apartment infested cockroaches
- Black spots. If the dishes, kitchen shelves, wallpaper there were small dark beads, alas, left them cockroaches. That's what their metabolic products.
- Odor.
- Laying eggs in corners and crevices. If you find them, you can, of course, be glad that your apartment is officially granted the status of "cockroach-friendly", but it also means that insects have output twice. First destroy the basic number of pests, then - hatched offspring.
- Personal meeting. Cockroaches - being curious and sociable, because if you do not pay attention to the above-described alarm bells, sooner or later they will come to contact. Most often infest homes black (up to 3 cm in length, cookware), or red (up to 1.3 cm in length, cockroaches) cockroaches.
Why do they come to you exactly
- You have a lot of delicious food. Cockroaches also love to eat. Only if you're an eating sandwiches in front of the computer, they are content with little: leftover crumbs. And yet they just open garbage bags or buckwheat scattered in the kitchen drawer.
- You have a lot of available water. It is necessary to drink a nice dinner. Because the puddle at the sink and leaking shower cubicle will fall by the way.
- Food and water in many of your neighbors. No matter how you tried to destroy pests, all efforts can be broken on the obstinacy of your neighbors-pig. If you can not agree with them, enough to seal your own home: to eliminate cracks and crevices.
Effective means of cockroaches
Traditional methods
Boric acid cockroach is the strongest poison. Once in the digestive tract of an insect, it affects his nervous system. cockroach paralyzed, and he dies of suffocation. It is best to use boric acid powder, it can be purchased at any pharmacy.
- Sprinkle the powder on cockroaches ways: along baseboards, in the watering places (toilet, sink, shower). He settles on the legs of an insect, and when a cockroach starts to clean them, gets into the stomach.
- Make delicious bait: Mix mashed potatoes, egg yolks, sugar and flour with boric acid and roll from the resulting mass of beads. Place them wherever they can run malicious barbel.
Ammonia It has a strong odor, which is not like cockroaches. Therefore, they seek rather to leave the premises treated with this substance. To get rid of cockroaches, add ammonia to the water to wash the floor, shelves, walls and ceilings.
Freezing. Cockroaches - cold-blooded creatures. They cease to proliferate and become weaker at a temperature below +7 ° C. However, this method will be applied only in the winter, it is desirable in hard frost. Just enough to leave the window wide open for a day (preferably two). It is necessary that all the rooms promorzli to -10-15 ° C.
Trap It helps if cockroaches are not so much. It can be done at home. Jar with a wide mouth, a deep enamel or glass bowl inside the brush with oil, grease or petroleum jelly, and crumble the bottom bait: biscuits, bread, sugar. Insects will be pulled to the smell tasty, and then can not climb out. The plastic bottle can be used also as a hazardous container: cut the neck and, turning, insert it back as a funnel.
Leave the trap overnight in the kitchen or in the bathroom, and in the morning do not forget to destroy the pest. They can pour boiling water or spray the insecticide.
Chemicals
The market is rich in a variety of specialized tools, from sprays and chalks up nanotechnology lamps and traps. The main thing when dealing with this sort of thing - follow the instructions carefully and do not forget about gloves and a protective mask.
How to get rid of cockroaches forever
If you live in a private home, it will be enough once thoroughly to poison insects, and then regularly to take preventive measures in the future, insects do not come to visit.
But if you are lucky enough to own property in an apartment building, without concerted action with the neighbors do not get along. Agree with all the residents and spend disinfestation simultaneously. Otherwise, it may happen that in your apartment disarmed again and will again enter cockroach landing from another floor.
preventive measures
- Keep the house in order. For pest control enough not a single cleaning regularly is necessary to direct purity. Store food in airtight container, remove the crumbs from the table and watch the places where they eat pets. It will be good to revise the kitchen drawers for scattered grains. Desirable to wash the dishes immediately after eating, rather than storing it in the sink with the meal residues inside.
- Take out the garbage. It is not necessary to keep the litter in the cupboard under the sink or crowded store bags at the front door. Get into the habit of regularly walk to the garbage cans (or until garbage), and the kitchen put a container with an airtight lid.
- Eliminate the leak in a timely manner. If no food cockroaches can live for weeks without water they do not live a day. Therefore it is necessary to regularly check potentially dangerous places (toilet tank, sink, pipe joints) for leaks. In addition, do not forget to wipe the surface dry in the bathroom after bathing active. Well, the sailor's way of cleaning the floors (when on deck at once poured a bucket of water) it is better not abuse it.
- Discard cracked. If your neighbors do not differ cleanliness, take care of the inaccessibility of your apartment. Inspect the walls, the ceiling, the corners of the room: perhaps there cracks. They should be filled. A special air vents, close the fine mesh through which insects can not crawl.
Do you baleen pests bother? What methods do you protect your apartment from the cockroaches? Share your tips in the comments.