How to Get Rid of Cockroaches in 2020

Man fights cockroaches almost from the very beginning of his existence. As soon as people learned to build houses and prepare food, they immediately had intruders. If the modern market is literally teeming with a variety of insecticides and other pest control chemicals, then what happened before? How did people deal with the hated insects?

Many apartment tenants, faced with a corresponding problem, are looking for the most effective folk remedy for cockroaches, which would help them get rid of pests at home forever.

Are folk recipes effective?

Given that the Internet did not exist at an earlier time, many people tried to figure out on their own how to get rid of domestic cockroaches. That is why there are a huge number of options for preparing a variety of poisons, traps and other devices for controlling cockroaches at home. Some of them are absolutely useless, the rest may seem like an ideal weapon against the Prussians, and an average deterrent.

The main features of such recipes remain:

Availability. Unlike modern insecticides, most folk remedies are created literally from scrap materials and often require practically no financial costs for their preparation.
Relative performance. We need to be fair and clarify that even the most effective folk remedy for cockroaches will not be as powerful as the same specialized spray.
Safety for humans. Most of these products are made with ingredients that are harmless to humans but potent cockroach poisons.

Below is a sample list of the most effective and efficient home recipes with which you can finally win the war with your hated roommates.

Professional services

Have you tried all the remedies but nothing helps? Call the special sanitary service. This is the most effective method and is especially helpful if the number of cockroaches is growing rapidly. Typically, disinfectants use professional products that are more powerful and effective than those sold in regular stores. Contact only trusted companies and be sure to check the degree of harm of certain actions aimed at fighting insects.

An important condition for getting rid of cockroaches once and for all is maintaining cleanliness both on the stairwells, and in the basement, and near the garbage chute (if there is one). Make an appointment with neighbors in advance to call insect control specialists for the whole house. Then the processing will be really effective. After disinfestation, it is better to leave the apartment for one or two days, and on return - thoroughly ventilate.

Boric acid against the Prussians

Boric acid is a white powder, which at one time was considered one of the best disinfectants. It was even used for internal reception. At the moment, there are quite a few other more effective analogs in medicine. But if we talk about such a process as the fight against cockroaches, then here boric acid does not lose its position.

It is a nerve poison and kills insects.In small doses, this drug causes a powerful intoxication of the body of an uninvited guest. In large ones - death from muscle spasm and blockage of all vital functions.

The main disadvantage (or plus, it all depends on which side you look at) is the fact that in order to achieve the desired result (lethal outcome for the pest), the cockroach needs to eat boric acid. By itself, it has no taste or smell, therefore it remains uninteresting for voracious Prussians. Nevertheless, inventive people have come up with several methods and recipes that significantly increase the chance of getting a product with boric acid in the gastrointestinal tract of a cockroach.

Here is some of them:

You need to mix 1 boiled chicken yolk and 50-60 grams of acid. Bring everything to a uniform consistency. After that, you need to make small balls from the resulting mass and place them in places where cockroaches can potentially appear. Although boric acid remains safe for humans and animals, it is still worth using such poisonous baits in secluded places to prevent them from entering the body of children or pets. The Prussians, most likely, will want to feast on such a "gift" that will be the end for them.
In equal proportions, you need to mix sugar, flour and boric acid. Add a little water and knead a kind of dough. From the resulting mass, you need to create similar bait for cockroaches and place them throughout the house. The principle of action is the same as in the previous recipe.
Another option for using boric acid is its usual scattering along the baseboards, near the toilet, trash can or in other potential "meeting points" of the Prussians. It is believed that cockroaches, even just running over the white powder, without using it inside, will stain their paws. Later, in the process of cleaning from the corresponding pollution, they will swallow a lethal dose of poison, which remains the main goal of a person. There is logic in this judgment, however, this method still lags behind the baits described above in efficiency.

Obviously, boric acid is a very effective, and most importantly, an affordable tool for cleaning the house from pests. You can buy it at any pharmacy or hardware store. It is sold in bags of 10 g.

Reasons for the appearance

Unsanitary conditions. This is the most common reason for uninvited guests. Most often, cockroaches like to appear in the kitchen, where there is a high probability of finding food leftovers.
Humidity. The presence of moisture in the room as a result of leaks in the water supply line, taps, shower perfectly helps cockroaches to reproduce.
Neighbors. If your neighbors are engaged in "breeding" cockroaches, then sooner or later, but insects can peep into your house through cracks, cracks, ventilation.

Borax is an effective folk remedy for cockroaches

Preparation of effective folk remedies for cockroaches quite often requires some ingenuity from a person. It is not enough to put poison on the floor, it is necessary that the Prusak still wants to eat it on his own.

Borax is another good substance that can be used for pest control. It is the sodium salt of boric acid and therefore shows the same results.

Only the recipes for bait for hunting cockroaches differ:

250 g of borax should be mixed with 50 g of regular sugar, starch and another 20 g of vanilla. The latter is needed to give a special aroma that will attract pests. Next, ordinary balls for bait are prepared.
Puree from 1 potato with a grated chicken egg is mixed with 2 tablespoons of borax. Then everything follows the same scheme.

Such a folk remedy for cockroaches is the most effective, according to many people who have successfully overcome the invasion of pests.

Preparatory procedures

Preparation for disinfection

Cockroaches settle only in those apartments where they are satisfied with the living conditions - the presence of secluded places where insects hide, free access to water, a free diet. If there are crumbs on the tables, unwashed dishes are standing, the trash bin is not taken out in time, the taps are leaking - the Prussians will settle down for a long time.

It is necessary to carry out a general cleaning in the house - remove garbage, rubbish, accumulation of paper, get rid of dampness.
The next step is to fix the taps and pipelines to prevent insects from accessing water. Cockroaches live no more than 3 days without water. Ventilate the bathroom so that condensation does not collect on the walls and floor. Wipe dry sinks, table.
Hide food in plastic bags, put in the refrigerator, cupboards. Do not leave crumbs on the table, wash the dishes immediately after eating.
Put grates on the ventilation shafts, since it is from there that cockroaches move from one apartment to another. Get rid of cracks in walls, doorways.

Under such conditions, cockroaches can be removed much faster, and re-infection can be prevented.

The impact of low temperatures on parasites

Freezing your home is a very effective folk remedy for cockroaches. The fact is that they completely die already at a temperature of -8оС. This applies to both adults and their larvae and young animals. The obvious disadvantage is a certain risk of disrupting the normal heating system in the apartment. To protect the batteries, it is advisable to wrap them up with heat-insulating material and only then begin active freezing.

Many people advise to open all windows and doors for a few hours on a day in winter. Sub-zero temperatures require a certain amount of time to penetrate into all the cracks of the house. Only then can we begin to restore normal climatic conditions in the apartment.

The temperature at which cockroaches die is described in a separate article!

It should be noted that in such a radical way it is really possible to quickly remove cockroaches, however, the following disadvantages of such a struggle remain obvious:

Possibility of holding only in winter.
The need to endure the cold yourself or leave the house wide open.
It is advisable to coordinate such an act of war with pests with neighbors if a person lives in a high-rise building.

However, many residents of Russia note that it was with the help of freezing that they managed to overcome the invasion of cockroaches.

Penetration prevention

The most common way for cockroaches to enter an apartment is through migration from neighbors. All wall gaps should be repaired, in the baseboards, and mesh protection should be made for ventilation.

On a note!
More rare are the options when the Prussians are brought or brought in bags after being in a heavily contaminated room. If it is the winter period, you can protect the apartment from the intervention of traveling individuals if you take the bag out into the cold - on the balcony.

Migration

Feverfew as a method of controlling cockroaches

Simple and affordable Pyrethrum remains an insecticidal powder, which is extracted by grinding the inflorescences of ordinary chamomile. For humans, it is absolutely safe, but for cockroaches it is a deadly poison.

It is used in a similar way as boric acid - delicious killer baits for the Prussians are prepared. You can buy the product at a pharmacy or specialty store.

Types of cockroaches living at home (Prusaks, etc.)

Today, there are just under 7,600 species of these insects. Among them there are Sinanthropus, whose lifestyle is associated with a person and his home. This group includes:

Red cockroach, also called Prusak.
Big black cockroach.
American cockroach, which cannot be considered a domestic cockroach in the full sense of the word.He lives in the wild, however, once in a dwelling, he easily adapts.
Central Asian, white, Egyptian and Madagascar cockroaches, rarely found in homes.

Ammonia as a repellant odor

Ammonia is not an insecticide. He will not kill cockroaches, however, he can scare them away and force them to leave the apartment. The fact is that the olfactory senses in insects are much stronger than the human organs of smell. For the Prussians, ammonia serves as a powerful deterrent, which they, in the literal sense, cannot tolerate. To achieve a pronounced result, even a small amount of the appropriate liquid is enough.

That is why it is recommended to carry out wet cleaning more often and wash the floors with the addition of ammonia to the water. Thus, it will be possible to force cockroaches to leave the apartment in whole colonies. However, you need to be prepared for the "gratitude" of the neighbors, to whom these pests will move. The use of odors is analogous to specialized deterrents.

What do cockroaches eat in an apartment?

They are omnivores. They can even eat wallpaper glue, bar soap, paper products (toilet paper, books, newspapers) and clothes (tights, socks). Most of all, insects love carbohydrate foods:

sweet foods;
beer;
bakery products.

Insects eat spoiled and decaying food. In the cockroach diet, only glass, iron and some types of plastic are not present. Pests can easily go without food for 2 months. The only thing they cannot live without is water.

Homemade traps

Another method of dealing with hated insects is the popular cockroach trap. It is inferior in efficiency to ready-made factory counterparts, however, if necessary, it can serve as a good remedy for pests.

There are several options for creating it, but the most simple and affordable remain:

You need to take the most ordinary half-liter jar and drop a little honey or beer on its bottom. Under the neck, apply 2-3 cm of sunflower or olive oil with a tape along the entire radius. Place in the place where the Prussians should appear. The next morning you can find a large number of insects in the trap, which can simply be destroyed by flushing into the toilet.
On a piece of cardboard, you need to stick a little scotch tape, sticky side up, and drop honey in its center. Cockroaches, running to the bait, will remain on the tape. Of course, the factory version of the trap is more effective, however, and such a simple method will get rid of pests.

Despite the simplicity and affordability, these homemade traps are slightly less effective than other tools, so they should be used occasionally.

The destruction of cockroaches by folk remedies remains one of the fairly popular methods of dealing with annoying pests. Which particular way to choose, a person decides on his own.

If the methods described above are ineffective, you can treat the baseboards, trash can and other surfaces with kerosene or turpentine. Such an aroma can scare off cockroaches for a long time, but the residents of the house themselves will have to endure a little. One way or another, but you can bring uninvited guests out using fairly simple methods.

Most often, people still turn to recipes with boric acid because of their availability and simplicity:

About safety

Modern "chemistry" is not as dangerous for humans as its predecessors twenty years ago, but when starting to treat an apartment with aerosols, be sure to wear a respirator, at least an ordinary "petal". You need to work with gloves and closed clothing.

The danger is not ordinary poisoning. Most substances that are lethal to insects for humans are quite harmless (for example, the same boric acid), but insecticides can cause a strong allergenic reaction.

And, finally, if you simply do not want to fight cockroaches or the usual methods have not worked, contact one of the specialized organizations. Methods used by professionals are much more effective, but if used independently, without special protective devices, they may turn out to be unsafe or ineffective.
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Signs of the presence of pests

If there is a small colony of cockroaches in the apartment, it is problematic to see them. They settle in hard-to-reach places and go out for food at night. Often hosts find the problem when it reaches global proportions.

Note! Cockroaches are black and brown. The latter are called the Prussians. They are the ones who most often live in apartments.

The following signs will help you learn about the invasion of insects in a timely manner.:

if you look closely at the dishes and shelves in the house where the pests have settled, you will find black dots on them - the waste products of cockroaches;
cockroaches are subject to periodic molt. They leave chitinous membranes in different places;
egg clutches are found on the shelves, behind furniture and near the baseboards;
there is an unusual unpleasant odor in the cabinets, caused by the waste products of insects;
at night, if you turn on the light in the kitchen sharply, you can see insects scattering in all directions.

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Preventive actions

Folk remedies

It will take a long time to remove cockroaches with folk remedies, patience is required, a large number of treatments. Recipes with boric acid are recognized as the most effective. The fastest result can be expected in a month. But as a preventive measure, folk remedies can be used.

Arrange orange peels or lemon, bay leaves in the corners of the room, in cabinets.
In the process of mopping, add vinegar, ammonia or essential oils of geranium, mint, lavender, chamomile to the water.
Place a flower pot with geraniums in the kitchen.
Sprinkle boric acid powder or Tiuram powder around the trash can, near the doorway, sink.
Place traps, which are small cardboard structures. You can make traps yourself. The inner walls are lubricated with long-drying glue, and the bait is placed in the center.

Compliance with all steps of the correct processing algorithm is the key to early success. Otherwise, you will have to fight cockroaches endlessly.