How to get cockroaches out of an apartment forever

Breeding cockroaches seems like a very difficult task at first glance. Cockroaches in an apartment cause a lot of unpleasant emotions precisely because they multiply very quickly and are difficult to eliminate. But proven home and specialized methods allow you to get insects out faster.

Where do cockroaches come from in the apartment?

Contrary to stereotypes, cockroaches can appear not only in an unkempt dirty home, but also in a clean, tidy apartment. There are several main reasons for their appearance.

• Migration from neighbors... If people who do not care for home cleanliness live behind the next door, and parasites breed in their apartment, then sooner or later all other residents on the floor will face unwanted guests, cockroaches will run from apartment to apartment through the opening doors. Sometimes insects can migrate through vents, cracks in walls, adjacent balconies.
• Migration from a garbage chute or basement... Especially often the inhabitants of the 1st-2nd floor suffer from parasites, if the utilities poorly monitor cleanliness and order, the reproduction of insects among the sewage and garbage becomes inevitable.
• With purchases and parcels... You can accidentally bring cockroaches into your home along with freshly purchased household furniture or appliances, if insects are found in the store and are taken into goods. Sometimes parasites can even move from country to country along with sealed parcels.

Thus, cockroaches can accidentally get into absolutely any apartment. But at the same time, it depends on the owners themselves how quickly and abundantly the insects breed around the house and how easy it will be to remove them.

• The main condition for breeding cockroaches is access to water and food debris. Parasites are extremely unpretentious and can survive by feeding on crumbs, rotten waste, low-quality food, microscopic food particles in the sink and on the table. At the same time, it is enough for food waste to appear in open places at least from time to time - it is not necessary for parasites to eat every day, they may well do without food for several weeks.
• The warm temperature in the apartment and the presence of many secluded corners behind furniture and baseboards also contribute to the reproduction of parasites. The more the room is cluttered, the more difficult it is to control the appearance of colonies and remove them in a timely manner, since insects hide in hard-to-reach places and lay their eggs there.

Methods for removing cockroaches from the house

Catching cockroaches one at a time and destroying them with a blow of a newspaper or a slipper is an extremely ineffective strategy.To breed large black cockroaches or small ginger insects, it is necessary to act on the entire colony and not allow the parasites to multiply. Several methods are practiced to achieve this goal.

• Etching... In this case, deliberately poisonous food debris is placed on the cockroaches or the problem areas of the apartment are treated with toxic agents with a pungent odor. Cockroaches eat poison or inhale poisonous fumes, after which they quickly die. In general, the method is considered effective, but it has a drawback - only those insects that have come into direct contact with the poison die. Other cockroaches stay alive and can reproduce successfully.
• Freezee - parasites do not tolerate low temperatures, so they can be removed by extreme ventilation of the room. The disadvantages of this method include the fact that it can be applied only in winter, and besides, not only insects, but also communications and indoor flowers can suffer from a decrease in temperature.
• Room treatment with insecticides - in this case, toxic substances make it possible to remove not only insects that have come into direct contact with the toxin, but also their relatives, which cockroaches subsequently successfully infect. The method is very effective, since it helps to remove the entire colony, but it may require a temporary move from the apartment, at least for a couple of days.

To remove parasites from an apartment with minimal effort and time, you should familiarize yourself with all existing techniques.

How to remove cockroaches at home using folk methods

If the colony of cockroaches is not too large and appeared very recently, then first you can try home methods of solving the problem. It is likely that folk methods will be enough.

How to quickly remove cockroaches from an apartment with a low temperature

Cockroaches love warmth, so in the winter season they can be removed by freezing the room. The advantage of the method is that you practically don't have to make any efforts. All that needs to be done is to open the windows outside the window at freezing temperatures and leave the apartment for 3-4 hours so that the room is properly cooled.

If the temperature in the apartment drops below -5 ° C, then not only the parasites will die, but also the clutches of their eggs. However, the method has several disadvantages:

• an extreme drop in temperature while the central heating is operating can lead to rupture of pipes and batteries;
• the apartment will probably have places where the temperature does not drop to the desired values, which means that the parasites will be able to survive there;
• freezing can destroy indoor plants, which will simply have nowhere to remove when airing the entire apartment.

Electrical appliances can also suffer from a sharp drop in temperature, especially if some of them remain on.

How to remove cockroaches with plaster on your own

Gypsum powder can be used as a poison. The processing of the apartment is carried out as follows - gypsum is mixed with flour, cereals or sugar, and then put in a place accessible to cockroaches.

Together with the edible product, the insect will inevitably eat gypsum, and when it gets into the stomach of the cockroach, it will get wet and harden. This cruel method is quite effective, but only cockroaches that have tasted the prepared mixture die when using it.

How to get rid of cockroaches using boric acid

Boric acid is a deadly poison for insects and helps to remove them - this method of control has long been proven to be effective. The recipe for removing cockroaches with boric acid looks like this:

• yolks are removed from raw eggs and stirred with boric powder until a thick slurry is made;
• small balls are rolled from the resulting gruel and allowed to dry out a little;
• the balls are laid out in those places where cockroaches appear most often.

Tempted by the smell of edible yolk, the cockroaches will taste the poison with it, after which they will inevitably die. However, if you try to remove cockroaches in this way, it can take a lot of time - up to a month.

How to get cockroaches out of an apartment forever with ammonia

You can remove black cockroaches from the apartment with the help of ammonia. In this case, the goal is not to poison the cockroaches, but to scare them away from their usual place and force them to leave the apartment.

The fact is that insects have a very developed sense of smell, with the help of which they find the smallest remnants of food. If you properly treat the favorite places of cockroaches with ammonia, the pungent smell will confuse them and also cause irritation of the respiratory tract.

The processing of the premises is carried out as follows:

• 1 small spoonful of ammonia is diluted in a liter of water;
• a rag and sponges are moistened in the resulting solution;
• carry out a full-fledged wet cleaning - you need to wipe the floors, window sills, baseboards, doorways and furniture.

It is necessary to carry out the treatment with gloves and a protective mask, and after the procedure, thoroughly ventilate the room. After that, the pungent ammonia smell will become imperceptible to humans, however, it will remain strong for insects and will help to remove them.

How to get large cockroaches out of an apartment with kerosene

A good remedy for getting black cockroaches out of your home is kerosene, which is deadly to most insects. It should be applied as follows:

• kerosene is mixed with olive oil and shampoo in a ratio of 2: 1: 3;
• the resulting mixture is filled with a spray bottle;
• spray the solution over surfaces, furniture and the floor in the apartment, paying special attention to the processing of hard-to-reach corners.

Kerosene has a paralyzing and suffocating effect on parasites, disorients cockroaches and leads to their death. A special advantage is that the substance also affects the clutches of eggs - after a well-carried out treatment, new cockroaches will no longer appear.

How to remove cockroaches using specialized tools

If none of the home methods helped, or there is simply no desire to prepare solutions and poisonous mixtures, you can use ready-made specialized means. Some of them are particularly effective.

• Traps - can be purchased at any hardware store. The trap is a small box in which the bait is placed - a poison that is deadly for cockroaches with an edible aroma. Having been seduced by the smell, the cockroach climbs into the trap and eats the poison, and then goes to infect its relatives. Also on the market, you can find electric traps that kill cockroaches with an electric shock when the insect gets inside. However, their effectiveness is lower, since in order to completely get rid of the parasites, it is necessary that every cockroach is trapped in the trap.
• Dust - a product based on the substance pineronyl butoxide. Powder should be scattered along baseboards, under sinks and bathtubs, behind furniture, near trash cans and elsewhere. You can also prepare a liquid solution according to the instructions on the label and treat the apartment in the same way. The dust is left for 4-6 hours, and then the surfaces are wiped with soapy water or soda solution.
• Aerosols... It is very simple to remove red cockroaches with the help of sprays, they need to be generously sprayed over all problem areas, close all the windows in the house, and then leave the apartment for several hours. After returning, you need to open the windows, ventilate the room and carry out wet cleaning. Of course, you only need to spray the aerosol in a respirator, before removing all household and pets from the room.

In addition to dust, aerosols and traps, you can find crayons and gels for cockroaches in hardware stores. Usually they are used with a small population of parasites, they treat door and window openings, jambs and walls of furniture, the edges of the sink and the floor around the bin.

Smells that repel cockroaches

Ammonia is the most effective, but not the only, odor that irritates cockroaches. To force insects to leave, you can also use cedar and fir essential oils, eucalyptus oil and lavender, wormwood and bay leaves, elderberry branches.

Preventive actions

The best way to control cockroaches is to prevent their appearance. To prevent parasites from appearing in the apartment, in principle, it is necessary:

• patch up all cracks and cracks in walls, window frames and door frames;
• pull the nets over windows and vents;
• monitor the health of plumbing - cockroaches often appear in houses with leaking taps and toilets, since they have access to water at any time;
• throw away the trash bin in a timely manner;
• wash dishes immediately, without leaving them to sour for a long time in the sink;
• do not scatter food leftovers and crumbs around the apartment - ideally, you should eat only in the kitchen.

It is also necessary to carry out a full-fledged wet cleaning twice a week, it will help clean the room of accidental unnoticed crumbs, stains and food debris.

Conclusion

You can remove cockroaches using folk and specialized methods, even if the insects have multiplied strongly, they can really be dealt with in a short time. But it is best to observe preventive measures and prevent the appearance of parasites and not create comfortable conditions for them to reproduce.