What's the best home-made way to kill cockroaches?
Ok...so I live in an apt where the management has decided to completely ignore the fact that my building is in DESPERATE need of an exterminator. I tried using Raid, live traps, sticky traps...basically everything in the "pest control" section of the store. Nothing worked--the little buggers came back with a vengeance.
Is there a cheap (cuz i'm so sick and tired of spending money to kill these little critters), pet-friendly (i have a dog), home-made way to kill these annoying things?!!
I cannot chaulk or seal up the holes in which they come from since my management has specified that I am not to do as such. So, i need something that I can do pretty much every week until they all die miserable deaths.
HELP ME!
2007-02-11 15:56:51 · 6 answers · asked by krishna1027 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
2 words... Boric Acid
Commonly called Borax and located in the cleaning and laundry additives aisle at your local grocer. Not toxic to your pets (unless they are bugs) and safe around kids. It kills the insects by being sucked into the insects breathing tubes in their abdomen, thus clogging the lungs and suffocating them, most fine powder will do the trick, but boric acid is the least harmful and kills a broad spectrum of bugs.
another 2 words... Renters Insurance
Commonly used when the building's Super fails to do his or her job and one of the angry tenants burns the building down.
2007-02-15 10:38:14 · answer #1 · answered by Momo's got a querstien 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I"m sorry to hear your apt manager says you can't caulk up the holes. You may never get rid of them since your not the one feeding them.. You're trying to kill em. But one of the easiest ways to keep them from coming in is to keep the crumbs up and your sink dry. Make sure the floors are swept and stuff like that. They love dirty places...
I though had bought a house that had bad bad roach problems.. The folks before me had tried everything. But they were not as clean as me.. But I had tried at first using an exterminator.. No luck there. So i went out and bought me some combat super baits in the GOLD box for large roaches. I put them everywhere.. Yet it did cost a little bit but it worked the first time. I put like 2 or 3 per room. I seen every once in a while a big wood roach but that is because we had tons of live oak trees. It was an old house to they could get in almost anywhere. But one a month compaired to o.m.g. it's a nightmare is much better.
Sorry it is not a home made solution but other than the bottom of your sneaker that is all I could think of.
But if the rest of the residents don't do something too you will constantly be changing out the bait traps. Once every 2 or 3 months at least.
Or you can contact your county health board and tell them your landlord is not fuemagation and see what can be done.
2007-02-12 00:51:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I lived in an apartment once that cockroaches appeared running up the walls and boy was I surprised to see that for the first time in my life. I bought boric acid (very cheap purchase) and squirted the powder all around every room where the wall met the floor. Cockroaches run through it and it kills them. I didn't have any more problem after I did that. What I do not know is if that substance is safe around pets, you will have to find that out. I hope that helps you. They are the ugliest-looking insect I have ever seen!
2007-02-12 00:37:57 · answer #3 · answered by Goldenrain 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"BORIC ACID" is a cheap yet amazingly (100%) effective treatment for roaches and other small crawly pest. It's a white power in a small plastic container that you should find in any 99 cents or convenience store. It's pet-friendly because it works as well in kitchen cabinets and drawers as it does when placed on the floor along walls. Try it, not only will this stuff kill your roaches, over time it will also kill your neighbor's roaches.
2007-02-12 00:42:36 · answer #4 · answered by JESSE G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
soapy water, preferably hot will do the trick too if you can't find boric acid. I suggest keeping anything organic (roaches can eat ANYTHING organic) in plastic bags or containers. Even some types of paints can be food for roaches.
2007-02-12 03:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by electronicdotfly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boric acid is the stuff. I have also used horse apples (also called indian orange, osage apples, & bois d'arc apples)cut into quarters to rid my place of insects and it worked get (they don't bother animals and in fact many animals eat them.)
2007-02-12 01:11:23 · answer #6 · answered by dano 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋