what is the best treatment for roaches? please help?

Question

these bugs are in my kitchen and bathroom
need to get rid of them ASAP

Answer 1

Boric acid is safe and does the job put where you know they come in at under sinks around drain pipes ETC.

Answer 2

Best Treatment For Roaches

Answer 3

Here is my answer based on my experience of living in an apartment where no amount of chemicals, poison, boric acid, or whatever would get rid of them. Here is how I did it.

The key is using caulk to seal up all the places that roaches like to nest. These places are always near water, like the kitchen or bathroom. The most likely places are the cracks between the floor and the baseboard moulding on the wall, and at the top of that same moulding. Seal it up everywhere. If your roach problem is bad enough you may have to go around the entire room.

Next is the long crack where your kitchen counters meet the wall, especially near the sink. Roaches like to nest where it is dark and where there is very little headroom above them, so the space between the kitchen counters and the wall is paradise.

There is a way to use boric acid without danger to your loved ones. If you find cracks to seal at the baseboards, before you seal them, you can brush some boric acid through the crack before sealing it. Likewise, you can put some behind the counter before sealing it up. Boric acid does work great. It is not a poison, so roaches cannot become resistant to it. Instead, when the powder gets on them they ingest it when they clean themselves, then it swells up in their stomachs and kills them when they drink.

The key is sealing everything up. After that you can place small amounts of the various poisons and traps to kill the roaches that are still there, i.e. the ones that now have no place to nest but are still hanging around.

If you believe that you have sealed everything up and still see roaches, then you have missed something. If you see a roach, instead of killing it, just follow it to see where it goes. Then seal up that spot. If you can't seal that spot then place a small amount of poison there. (There is a small tube of roach food poison sold that is good for that.)

Finally, if you have sealed everything up and still have roaches, do you have carpeting near the problem? The roaches can nest under the carpeting, although in my experience it was under the baseboard and under the carpeting right next to it.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Just bomb the place man, then after that every 3 months switch to a different pesticide treatment that way year round it'l be like four different chemicals and the roaches won't have time to build an immune system against it.

Answer 5

Go to the pharmacy, or a hardware store and get some "BORIC ACID"..It comes in a powder and all you do is sprinkle it around all the baseboards and dark places. Around the tub and inside the sink and behind the refridgerator...

With in a week or three, you will be free of roaches.

But, keep the powder refreshed for a couple of months, as the EGGS will hatch and start to crawl around, and that will kill them also.

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 6

Boric Acid works, and very well roaches actually seem to like it. They eat from it and they don't die immediately, instead they go back to their nests, where they deposit some of the chemical powder they happen to carry on their legs, and spread it all over their nest where their eggs are. When the eggs hatch, it's this killer "food" the ofsprings first find, they eat from it, and that's it: they don't even have time alive to get out of their nest. Two weeks later, no more roaches, not even a trace of them

Answer 7

Pest control
There are numerous parasites and predators of cockroaches, but few of them have proven to be highly effective for biological control; wasps in the family Evaniidae are perhaps the most effective insect predators, as they attack the egg cases, and wasps in the family Ampulicidae are predators on adult and nymphal cockroaches (e.g., Ampulex compressa). House centipedes, however, are probably the most effective control agents of cockroaches, though most homeowners find the centipedes themselves objectionable.

Preventative measures include keeping all food stored away in sealed containers, using garbage cans with a tight lid, frequent cleaning in the kitchen, and regular vacuuming. Any water leaks, such as dripping faucets, should also be repaired. It is also helpful to seal off any entry points, such as holes around baseboards, pipes, doors, and windows with some steel wool and some cement or putty. Once a cockroach infestation occurs, chemical controls may help alleviate the problem. Bait stations, gels containing hydramethylnon, as well as boric acid powder, are toxic to cockroaches. A simple homemade cockroach trap is reported to be successful.

Answer 8

Get a professional exterminator to come & fumigate. Then have him return to fumigate again when any eggs laid by the first ones hatch. If you live in an apartment building you probably won't get rid of them but if you live in a free-standing home it's easier to get rid of pests like roaches.

Answer 9

It's boric acid which is sold as Borax detergent. There's nothing better. Sprinkle it liberally under the sink and counters and anywhere else you see the little boogers.

Answer 10

I suggest going to the store and buying some Raid. It is a quick fix that will work in the short term. I suggest getting it professionally done though when it is convenient.