how do i control cockroaches?

Answer 1

Once you've seen roaches in your living space, odds are there are many more out of view. You can begin an active stance against the roach by getting rid of those who have made their presence known to you. Try:


1. sprinkling a small amount of boric acid where you've seen roaches travel through your home. The roach will poison themselves by ingesting the acid during their regular grooming routine. Be sure to sprinkle in dark, damp areas, too, like under bathroom and kitchen sinks, behind washers and dryers, and around the refrigerator, and behind appliances. Note: The ingestion of boric acid is also toxic to humans. Do not use in areas where small children or animals play, sleep, or eat.


2. You can make your own insecticide by mixing equal parts of baking soda and powdered sugar and setting up a mock bait plate for the roaches. After mixing your sugar and soda, eave the mixture in a shallow dish where roaches have been seen or are known to travel. The combination of sugar and soda is lethal to the cockroach.


3. Roaches hate the taste of bay leaves. You can naturally and safely keep most roaches at bay by placing the leaves anywhere you've seen roaches moving. Using bay leaves is a great way to keep roaches out of the rooms and play area of children.


4. Don't water the roaches! Cockroaches can survive for months without eating, but they need a daily source of water to thrive. Never leave water in the sink, in dirty dishes, or other areas of the house. Check other sources of water as well, such as leaky plumbing, under-refrigerator dampness, and concrete sweating. Wipe all traces of water from the sink after you've done the dishes and wipe down the bath area after use, as well.


5. Clean, clean, clean! Cockroaches naturally gravitate toward areas which are littered with cockroach droppings. Use a detergent or disinfectant to thoroughly clean the area and deter a re-infestation. On concrete floors and walls, you can use a mixture of bleach and water to disinfect the area. Other services can be cleaned with everyday cleansers or antibacterial soaps and scrubs.

Answer 2

Cockroaches will always return unless you remove there food source. Easier said than done. The crumbs in your toaster will feed a colony of roaches. Put all food in the frig, or air tight containers. Seal all the cracks, like where the floor meets the walls, Around the windows, electrical outlets, and where plumbing fixtures come out of the wall. Check the seal around your door.
I have had good luck using Combat for inside. To keep them from coming in from the outside, go around the perimeter of you house with a roach powder like Green Light.
There is a shelf paper call No Bugs M'lady, that kills bugs in the cabinets. You lay it down just like regular shelf paper, and it work great.
I did this and I haven't seen a roach for over a year now.

Answer 3

For effective cockroach extermination, the things you have to do are using a cockroach killer spray, covering all sealing/cracks in your home, keep all food items covered all the time and keep your surroundings clean. If you adopt all these things, you will surely achieve total cockroach pest control.

Answer 4

Use permethrin 1% (aerosol) formulation if infestation is heavy to knock down their population accompanied with cracks and crevices boric acid application. application of Residual insecticide throughout interior perimeter before applicatuion of aerosol spray will help preventing them to spread to new places. Better coverage of treated areas better result will be. Three weeks later detailed application of maxforce gel along with boric acid crack and crevice application. An other baiting treatment can be done after a month if needed. Good sanitation and housekeeping practices are pivotal for best control. Hope this will help.

Answer 5

here are some tips:
1. keep the place clean and ventilated.
2. avoid using furniture that there is no space between its bottom and the floor.
3. give a thorough spray of insecticide and leave the house for one night.
4. avoid making the floor wet and dropping peices of food.
5. use some powder that repells insects, it is usually applied at the edges under tha carpet and in the places where you think the devils hide.

I hope this will do.

Answer 6

Have a remedy that we use at here where we have large palmento roaches. Take sugar, boric acid powder, and cornmeal and mix equal parts together. Put into lids and push back into your cabinets. You can also pour this in a little stream in front of your doors. They will eat it, and it causes them to die. If you have pets though, do not put outside the doors as it is poison to animals.

Answer 7

if it's german cockroaches call a pest controller
if not many of the other answers may help

Answer 8

they say cockroaches can survive a nuke.....................funny you want to control them. But if u really want to---mix boric powder in wheat flour and knead it to dough. Roll out tiny balls of this dough and keep them in places frequented by the insects.


ps- keep the mixture out of reach of children.

Answer 9

Combat Gel..............looks like peanut butter. Will kill every roach within a couple of weeks and continue to kill them for 3 months. WOrks better thatn any exterminator I have used.

Answer 10

Hire an exterminator. If you live in an apartment, the landlord must have the entire unit or units done.