It is difficult to find a room whose owners would avoid the raids of harmful insects: cockroaches, bedbugs, fleas. Despite the effectiveness of modern insecticides, the range of their application is limited due to the high toxicity of the ingredients. Therefore, natural preparations that can destroy and repel insects are becoming more and more popular. The use of "Feverfew" from pests will not harm the health of the owners of private houses, apartments and offices, but fleas and cockroaches will quickly leave the premises treated with a natural insecticide.
Composition, action
Dried flowers of some types of chamomile were used as poisonous agents against insects by the soldiers of Alexander the Great, the population of Persia, ancient China. Scientific research on flowers began in 1694. Scientists have identified 2 types of chamomile - Caucasian, Dalmatian. Their inflorescences contain 1.5% of the natural insecticidal substance pyrethrin.
The mass production of preparations based on chamomile powder began in the 1920s. In the 40s, synthetic derivatives appeared - pyrethroid allethrin, tetramethrin, resmethrin.
On a note!
On sale you can find the natural preparation Pyrethrum and products made on the basis of synthetic derivatives.
Natural powder is used in premises for various purposes, residential buildings, apartments from crawling, flying insects. Feverfew has found application in the fight against cockroaches. The active ingredient has neuroparalytic properties. Violates metabolic processes, the functioning of the nervous system, provokes paralysis, death. With a small amount, it has a repellent effect.
Pyrethrum powder
Pyrethrum Pyrethrum cinerariaefolium Tre-vir. (Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium) is a chamomile-like medicinal plant. Feverfew grows wildly on the territory of the former state of Dalmatia (now Croatia and Montenegro), as well as in Herzegovina, Persia (Iran), Transcaucasia. It is also known as chamomile, Dalmatian chamomile, Persian chamomile. Powdered dried inflorescences of this plant have been used to fight insects for more than two centuries. Then on sale was a special "Dalmatian powder", which the hostesses sprinkled on the places where bedbugs accumulate in their homes. There was also a remedy "Persian powder", in which, in addition to pyrethrum, arsenic anhydride was also added (up to 50%). But the use of such a remedy turned into massive poisoning.
It is interesting! According to the surviving historical information, the army of Alexander the Great used this plant to fight blood-sucking insects, including bed bugs.
Plant pyrethrum Pyrethrum cinerariaefolium Tre-vir. (Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium)
Operating principle
Pyrethrin is absorbed by insects on contact. A large dose of the drug leads to the death of domestic cockroaches, a small dose acts as a repellent. A natural insecticidal agent has advantages and disadvantages that need to be considered.
Pros:
- Safety. The powder is not dangerous for pets, humans. The smell of chamomile has a calming effect, normalizes sleep, eliminates headaches, nervousness. Dangerous product only for insects.
- Ease of use. The powder is scattered in the form of a path in the places of the greatest concentration of cockroaches.
Minuses:
- Low efficiency. Feverfew remains toxic for only 1.5 days. Pyrethrins are rapidly degraded by exposure to sunlight. To increase the effectiveness of the product, it is recommended to sprinkle the powder in the evening, when the activity of cockroaches increases. Leave it overnight.
- Lack of a prolonged effect. Feverfew is recommended for use as a prophylactic agent, but for a very short time.
- Inconvenience when using. Due to the rapid degradation of the active substance, frequent renewal of the protective layer is required. The procedure is repeated every day, which is not suitable for everyone.
- Visibility. The powder is visible in the places of application, creates additional debris in the apartment.
- Only effective on contact. Cockroaches, which are in deep crevices, remain unharmed and continue their active life. The larvae in the ootheca develop safely.
Not everyone likes the specific smell of chamomile.
How and against whom to use the drug
Feverfew is a unique remedy. The substance is poisonous only for crawling pests. At the same time, it has no toxicity for pets and birds. Neither cat nor dog will be poisoned even if the mixture is swallowed in small doses. it's the same with a person. The drug can be used to treat pets, such as budgerigars, from harmful parasites in their feathers.
Photo from the packing department
Many pet owners leave positive reviews on the use of the powder. The drug must be used strictly according to the instructions included in the package. All recommendations for use must be followed, in particular with regard to the amount of powder dose.
Feverfew is dosed depending on the type of pest, on the scale of their distribution. It is advisable to know the approximate number of insects and their habitat. Usually these are hard-to-reach crevices, baseboards, panels, or just corners.
To carry out the necessary processing of such places, a sprayer comes to the rescue. You can buy it at a grocery store or pharmacy. You can use a regular syringe.
The cooking method is very simple. A solution is prepared from the powder with water in the following proportions: 5 tablespoons of the substance per 1 liter of water. Fill the spray bottle and treat the required areas. Recommended to spray on skirting boards, crevices, fabrics or textile coverings, furniture, joints.
Feverfew begins to act immediately and continues to fight for more than 2 days. After this time, you should clean the room, wet treatment of all surfaces, without detergents. It is also possible to re-process the apartment.
The plant substance effectively fights against adult parasites. In the presence of larvae and eggs, young individuals may appear in a couple of days. For which, after a while, it is worth re-disinfection. It takes up to 5 procedures to completely get rid of parasites in an apartment.
The use of Feverfew is wide, from bedbugs, insects of various types and sizes to common lice and fleas. The insecticide is also used to control fleas that colonize cats and dogs. Feverfew is evenly distributed on pet hair. In folk medicine, the remedy is also used to fight lice. Also brushing it into your hair.
When processing surfaces, the powder is spread evenly. Sometimes a rubber bulb is used to spray the mixture evenly.
Instructions for use
It is recommended to scatter feverfew from cockroaches in the form of a path in places of the greatest concentration of cockroaches, on the way of their movement. Be sure to sprinkle around the trash can, sinks, sinks, along the baseboards, behind furniture. The next day, the powder is removed, the protective layer is renewed.The application continues until the cockroaches disappear completely, but this does not happen soon. With daily use of feverfew, you can achieve the desired result in 1-2 months.
On a note!
Dilution of Pyrethrum with water is practiced. The solution is poured into the cracks, the furniture is processed. With this method of application, the effectiveness of the cockroach remedy is significantly reduced, so the procedure is meaningless.
Ammonia
It is used in the fight against cockroaches rather as a deterrent than as a poison. When cleaning floors, you can add 5-7 ml of ammonia to a bucket of water - this will be enough for all insects to escape from the apartment.
The principle of operation is based on a fairly sensitive sense of smell of cockroaches. They smell even the slightest smell of ammonia and prefer to stay away from it as far as possible. In order for the effect to be permanent, you will have to add the product with each cleaning.
Where can one buy
By the end of the last century, active production of natural pyrethrum ceased due to a lack of raw materials. Instead, there were products based on synthetic derivatives. You can buy powder only on sites on the Internet, it is not available for sale on the free market. Manufacturers offer 100 g of the drug for 250 rubles. average. This amount is barely enough for a one-time treatment of a kitchen, bathroom or toilet. When using Feverfew from cockroaches as the main means of control, the cost increases many times.
Freezing
No matter how tenacious cockroaches may seem, they absolutely do not tolerate low temperatures. A little cold is enough to fight - at minus 8 degrees Celsius, not only adults, but also larvae are destroyed in the entire apartment. If you lower the temperature in the room to minus 10 for 3-4 hours, all cabinets, baseboards and cracks where pests may be are guaranteed to freeze, and there will be no trace of them. But it must be remembered that such cooling is fraught with rupture of heating pipes, so they must first be wrapped with any thermal insulation.
This method of killing cockroaches at home is not possible in all regions, but only where severe frosts occur. Accordingly, freezing in an apartment is possible only in winter, in rare cases - in autumn and spring.
Testimonials
Feverfew works well on mosquitoes, driving them away with its persistent aroma. At high concentration, it kills small insects. As for cockroaches, the dosage of a toxic substance is too small for them, so the effectiveness is weak. Low performance is confirmed by reviews of Pyrethrum.
An absolutely useless thing. The Prussians run around on the powder for days, they remain to live. High consumption, high price. Natural, but not at all effective. There is no point in buying. It is also not suitable for prevention. You need to add new powder every day, it looks unaesthetic, people start to feel sick from the constant specific smell.
Elena, Moscow
Doesn't help against cockroaches. I trotted the tracks in a huge layer for a week. I didn't see any results. Not a single dead cockroach came across to me. The poison does not take these reptiles, what to say about a natural weak insecticide. They only drive mosquitoes.
Irina, Perm
Traps
It is not necessary to buy expensive traps to fight cockroaches, because a similar structure can be made with your own hands:
- An ordinary glass jar is lubricated from the inside with vegetable oil around the neck to make a slippery strip a couple of centimeters wide. Beer is poured into the bottom of the container or some honey is placed to attract insects. In the evening, the structure is placed in a place where cockroaches can accurately smell it, and in the morning you can remove the caught individuals.
- Take double-sided tape, stick it on a piece of cardboard, put a bait in the middle of the sticky strip. Most of the attracted insects will remain firmly adhered.
The use of folk methods against cockroaches is perhaps inferior in efficiency to industrial means. But the fact that they are harmless to humans makes them attractive.
Analogs
Pyrethrum is commercially available in the form of an aerosol. It is used to destroy parasitic insects on the body of animals, mosquitoes. From cockroaches used to treat furniture, walls, pipes. Direct analogs are preparations based on synthetic pyrethroids. Available in the form of a water-soluble powder, dust, gel bait, aerosol. Toxic properties persist for 2 to 4 weeks. Effective analogues Fas-double, Super Fas, Tiuram, Fenaxin. The average price is 50 rubles. per packing.
Natural feverfew is positioned as a safe effective remedy for crawling, flying insects. In practice, it shows low results against cockroaches, as evidenced by numerous reviews.
Essential oils
Essential oils are liquids of different colors. Characteristics:
- oily base;
- have a strong odor;
- poorly colored;
- insoluble in water.
Benefits of essential oils:
- cost;
- easy to use;
- have the so-called prolonged action;
- environmentally friendly (absolutely safe for people).
Essential oils can of course be used for pest control. But the effectiveness of this remedy has not been proven.
Instructions for use:
- buy essential oils or make your own;
- process the required surfaces.
What exactly needs to be processed:
- shells;
- lockers;
- countertops;
- tables;
- sofas and beds, etc.
Of course, essential oils can be used to combat pests, but the effectiveness of this remedy has not been proven.
Existing ways to combat cockroaches
At the current level of technology development, there are three types of cockroach control. The first is using chemicals (all kinds of aerosols, gels, crayons, and more). In the second, the active ingredients are organic productsthat do not have a harmful effect on anyone other than insects. The third way is different electronic gadgetsbased on ultrasonic and magnetic resonance scare away methods.
Chemicals - their pros and cons
The destruction of cockroach families with chemicals has only one plus - this is speed of action... But this way dangerous to people and pets, in contact with the mucous membrane of which can cause severe poisoning. It should be added that cockroaches quickly get used to chemicals.
Traditional methods of breeding cockroaches - the pros and cons
Grandfather's same means of fighting cockroaches harmless for humans and animals, but are characterized by a prolonged action for 2-3 weeks. As an undoubted plus, it is worth pointing out the cheapness of the improvised means that are used to prepare the poison. The effectiveness of such methods has been tested for centuries, and gives excellent results.
Electronic cockroach control devices - pros and cons
The use of electronic scarers does not harm people and pets (as the manufacturers claim), acting exclusively on the Prussians. Their principle of operation: special ultrasonic and magnetic resonance waves are captured by the antennae of insects, forcing them to leave the room. You just need to plug the device into a power outlet. At first glance, everything is simple and good, but the area of action is only one (maximum two) rooms. In addition, cockroaches can return again.
