How to get cockroaches if they are wound up in an apartment or house?

The appearance of cockroaches in the house is usually not a joyful event for residents, and they, of course, take all possible measures to drive out insects. If this happened to you, then before you remove cockroaches from your home, you should first find out what factors contribute to their appearance, how they can be destroyed and how to make them disappear forever. Since this problem is quite old, to date, many methods and means have been invented to combat this type of insect. Having familiarized yourself with some of them, you can choose the most appropriate method, taking into account the circumstances.

Reasons for the appearance

Cockroaches start in the house if there are several suitable factors at the same time:

1. neighbors in whose apartment these insects have become regulars;
2. cracks in floors and walls or other channels of movement, allowing them to enter from there into your home;
3. frequent mess in the kitchen in the form of food or leftovers left on the table;
4. free access to water, for example, not wiped drops on the surface of various objects;
5. other possible types of unsanitary conditions at your place of residence.

Most often, cockroaches first appear in the kitchen and where you usually eat. At first, you may not even notice their presence, since they creep out at night into their fishery. But as the population of these insects in your apartment becomes more and more, they will begin to catch your eye in the daytime, so that their presence in the house will become obvious to you. In this situation, you involuntarily begin to think about what to do to get rid of cockroaches at home and what methods to use.

If you killed several individuals that were taken by surprise, then do not think that the fight with them is already over. Most of the insects in the apartment hide from your eyes in various slits, which are full in furniture or other interior items, and there may be thousands of them. Cockroaches need to be destroyed not only because their presence is unpleasant for us, but also because they can be carriers of infectious diseases. Just imagine that an insect that entered your house before this traveled through an apartment in which a dysfunctional family lives, where one of its members has something dangerous that is transmitted by airborne droplets or through food. If a cockroach crawled along the remnants of the food that this person was eating, and after a while ended up on one of your food products, is it worth explaining that the likelihood of becoming another victim of the disease among your family members greatly increases.

Some popular cockroach control methods

You should know that there are both store and folk remedies for cockroaches in the house. But even resorting to one of the popular methods, you still have to buy something. For example, the destruction of cockroaches with boric acid, which is a very effective tool against these insects. This powder can usually be easily purchased at the pharmacy.

For greater effectiveness, acid is best used as follows:

• boil some potatoes and ceiling it;
• add mashed egg and a pack of boric acid;
• mix it all well;
• from the resulting mixture to mold balls;
• to decompose them in places of frequent emergence of insects;

The potato in this case serves as a gluing agent, and the egg will drown out the smell of boric acid.

Having tried boric acid, cockroaches do not die immediately, but suffer for a long time, so they will disappear or their numbers will significantly decrease only after a couple of weeks. Another folk remedy for cockroaches in an apartment is ammonia, the action of which is not aimed at destroying them, but at driving them out of your home. This substance, which can also be bought at a pharmacy, needs to be added a little to the water during floor cleaning. Like people, cockroaches are very unpleasant with the smell of ammonia, so they will try to leave the room as soon as possible. If you have the opportunity to get arsenic, you can offer "your" insects to feast on this killer substance.

Tip

To work with arsenic or boric acid, be sure to use rubber gloves. Do not forget that ammonia is not ordinary alcohol, so try to protect your hands and face when using it, and until its smell disappears, it is better not to be in the room.

If you still do not dare to use one of the tools mentioned above, worrying about your health, then you can resort to a safer, but not very convenient method - freezing. It was noticed that at very low temperatures, these insects quickly leave their homes, as they can not stand the cold. Therefore, in order to get cockroaches out of the apartment with the help of freezing, you need to move to another place for several days, leaving the windows open and the heating turned off when there is severe frost on the street. If the room temperature drops to 10-15^about With a minus sign, the cockroaches will run to a warmer place.

Tip

If you have water heating, then before you leave the house, do not forget to drain the liquid from the system so that the pipes and radiators do not burst.

Cockroach traps

The industry also produces some toxic substances from cockroaches, but they are often harmful to humans. Therefore, than using poisons, it is better to use another original technique for solving this problem. This is a construction of various traps into which the insect freely climbs, but can no longer get out of them. So, on sale you can find a kind of cockroach houses made of cardboard. The inner surface of the trap material is coated with a sticky substance. When the insect seeks to reach the bait, which is placed in the center of the box, its paws are tied in this sticky composition, and it can no longer move.

But there are not only factory traps for these insects. Also, folk remedies for cockroaches include this kind of invention, and are not limited only to the use of chemicals and exposure to low temperature. Such home-made traps are made, for example, from a beer can, in which some beer is left. Its inner walls are lubricated with petroleum jelly or vegetable oil. The smell of the drink will surely attract insects, and they can quickly get to it thanks to the slippery inner walls of the vessel, but it will be impossible to get out. When a sufficient amount is collected in the bank, its contents can be poured into the toilet.

The traps mentioned above do not lead to the instant extermination of cockroaches, but simply help to direct them to a specific place where they will expect their further fate. But there are some factory traps that act on a different principle. For example, to combat these insects, special boxes with bait are produced, climbing into which, insects inevitably receive an electric shock, from which they die. Other traps are equipped with a strong poison bait.

The final victory over cockroaches

It is clear that all of the above methods are a temporary solution to the problem, since getting rid of cockroaches forever with their help is unlikely to succeed. It is important to eliminate the causes of pests, and not just deal with the consequences.But while these insects appear in your kitchen, you can protect yourself by using alcohol to wipe clean dishes before eating. Ethyl alcohol kills harmful microorganisms that can spread cockroaches. Of course, for a complete victory over them, it is first necessary to clear their home from them, completely eliminating their presence.

If you know how to work with pesticides and are sure that you will not harm your family, then use one of the factory remedies against cockroaches. Such compositions, which differ in arcs from each other by components and method of application, can be produced in the form of:

• powder intended for scattering in places of concentration of insects;
• a pencil or crayon, which is usually drawn along the perimeter of the room a line crossing the path of their movement;
• spray sprayed where cockroaches most often appear;
• gel intended for application along the alleged trajectories of their movement.

Of course, using these tools, you need to be extremely careful, especially if the actions are performed in the kitchen.

Tip

Before using one of the factory products, carefully study the manufacturer's instructions, and then clearly follow them.

In order to get rid of cockroaches once and for all on their own, it is important after their extermination by one of the methods described above to perform the following preventive measures.

• Close up all the gaps in the floors, walls and ceilings in the kitchen and in other rooms to prevent insects from entering the neighbors.
• Do not leave foods and their leftovers on the table or in other places;
• Regularly clean the kitchen by wiping all surfaces dry;
• Close garbage cans tightly.

If all your efforts were in vain, then you can finally and quickly solve the problem by contacting disinfection specialists.