How to deal with cockroaches in the apartment

The fight against cockroaches in the house is quite a laborious process, which, however, today can be carried out literally within one day. At the same time, the owner always has to choose exactly how to fight cockroaches, because there is no absolutely universal way.

Even seemingly safe and extremely effective insecticides for home use always have their pros and cons, which you need to know.

It is important to understand that the fight against cockroaches in the apartment should not begin with the search for the most effective or fastest means, as often happens. After all, if cockroaches were bred in a house, then there were reasons for this, to which one should first turn his attention.

Therefore, effective fight against cockroaches implies first and foremost an integrated approach, which we will consider with you.

 

Look at the root: the fight against the causes of the appearance of cockroaches in the house

Cockroaches are primarily a sign of the presence of garbage in the apartment, dirty unwashed corners, food that is available for feeding insects, and water that is constantly dripping and flowing somewhere.

Cockroaches are a symbol of unsanitary conditions.

On the other hand, in an absolutely clean apartment, in which there is no food, huge comfortable crevices and puddles in the sink, cockroaches will not be able to live. This is a hint of the main and most effective way of dealing with cockroaches: it is enough to make the apartment clean and maintain this gloss constantly, and the cockroaches will go away themselves.

This is done like this:

• thorough cleaning of the apartment and minor repairs are carried out: the gaps are removed, the backward wallpapers are removed, the plinths are replaced. A film of fat (by the way, very nutritious) is scrubbed from the floor below and behind the stove, bread crumbs are carefully removed.
• All products that are not being consumed at the moment are hiding in the refrigerator or packed in plastic bags.
• At night, the remains of water in the sink and bathroom are wiped out, glasses and mugs with juices and compotes are cleaned
• Dishes cleaned after eating, not in front of him.

But this approach has a major disadvantage: it requires serious work and regular time investment. Even without financial investments, he does not suit everyone and gives results only in a month or two. That is why, as an alternative, there are other methods of fighting cockroaches, fast, effective, but always leaving a second chance for pests.

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“I’ve read your forum, every three months with a new drug has been hitting the apartment, but until it brought order to it, they were constantly returning. But as they did the repair, all the problems disappeared - I have not seen a single cockroach for three years already. I even forgot what means from them help. ”

Lyudmila, Uman

 

Methods of dealing with cockroaches here and now

All effective methods of fighting cockroaches can be divided into several categories:

• Independent use of insecticides in different forms - gels, aerosols, powders, crayons. This method is considered today the most universal - it can be used at any time of the year in any premises. But before fighting cockroaches at home or in canteens and hostels with the help of such poisons, you should carefully study the instructions for use of the drug.It explains how to effectively deal with cockroaches without risk and harm to other inhabitants of the room.

 

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"In practice, in the canteen of the Polytechnic poisoned cockroaches. I did not even think that there are so many of them. I can imagine how many kilograms of food they ate every day. We both began to splash out of the cans, they were pouring in packs. At the forum I read later that the tool is called Ksulat. In short, there will be problems with cockroaches in the dorm - use ... "

Egor, Novosibirsk

• Calling pest control services is perhaps the most effective way to kill any insects in a house. In addition, it is fast and fairly safe. The only negative, due to which the struggle with domestic cockroaches by specialists it is used quite rarely - the high cost of calling such teams. It ranges from 1600 rubles for the processing of a 1-room apartment in the regions and up to 2500 rubles for the same procedure in Moscow.
• Freezing cockroaches is a method that, in terms of simplicity, environmental friendliness and efficiency, cannot be compared to all modern methods of fighting cockroaches combined. But it is not without flaws: it can only be used by residents of the middle and northern parts of our country,and only in winter. It is important to prevent freezing of water in the heating pipes, otherwise they may burst.
• The use of traps and baits is based either on attracting insects into a special “trap” from which they cannot get out, or on their use of a specially prepared poisonous mixture. However, these measures to combat cockroaches are often used as prophylactic - to protect the apartment from the neighbors "vagrants" guests, as well as auxiliary - in the destruction of individual individuals in the room.

There are other ways of fighting cockroaches - simple physical extermination of insects, the use of repellents and folk remedies - but in most cases they are either ineffective or too time consuming. Therefore, deciding how to deal with domestic cockroaches, should be studied in detail first and foremost basic and proven methods.

 

The use of insecticides: effective chemical attack

Insecticides produced today for home use combine the qualities that half a century ago were considered incompatible. For example, many of them are capable of poisoning insects when inhaled, and, accordingly, do not require eating them.Together with the effectiveness of most of these tools can boast of relative safety for humans.

It would seem, what else can the fight against cockroaches at home require? Indeed, in most cases this is enough, and drugs for the control of cockroaches today are used more often than all other methods.

But among them there is a classification.

• Gels from cockroaches, today - the most used form of drugs. They do not require the treatment of the entire premises with the removal of residents, are applied in droplets in secluded, but attractive places for pests, and act very effectively: some means one drop destroy up to half a thousand insects. Insecticidal gels are not very dangerous for children and pets, and therefore destroy cockroaches with their help, you can, without violating the usual way of life. Usually cockroaches die within a few weeks. The most popular today gels are Globol, Raptor, Brownie, Fas, Sturm. They are very inexpensive - a two-room apartment costs 150-200 rubles. This option is also excellent when fighting cockroaches in a hostel: each tenant has a syringe with a gel,and cockroaches in the hostel no one will see.
• Aerosol products - the well-known Raid, Raptor, Tetrix, Fufanon, Combat, Hangman and others. Their main advantage is the speed of action. At full handling apartments cockroaches die in it within a few hours. However, for this, all inhabitants, including domestic animals, must be removed from the room (otherwise, they would have to breathe poisonous fumes). In addition to the complexity of the use of these drugs are also quite expensive.
• Powders, which are also called dusts in common people. Combine the advantages and disadvantages of the previous two categories: they allow combining the fight against insects with life in an apartment, stretch the time of getting rid of cockroaches, and are in the middle price category. Best known Pure House powders, Brownie, Raptor and Pyrethrum.

 

On a note

Dust is the original drug DDT, the most notorious insecticide in the world. It was used in apartments during the Soviet era, locking the room for a week and going on vacation, away from the strong smell and dying insects.

• Pencils, of which the most famous today crayon Masha. Effective, but require a careful approach to use. Their main advantage is price. The same Masha will allow for 80-100 rubles to drive out and destroy the whole fraternity from the cockroach.
• Homemade poison bait - perhaps the most inefficient way. According to popular recipes prepared using borax or boric acid, with kneading them with egg, flour, sugar and vanilla. Before fighting with cockroaches at home with the help of such recipes, you should evaluate your financial capabilities and prefer insecticidal gels - the essence of them is the same, but the efficiency is several times higher.

Despite all the advantages and diversity of these tools, there are much simpler, but no less effective methods. Not devoid, however, and their shortcomings.

 

Severe Siberian method: freezing cockroaches

The fight against cockroaches folk methods have always been considered not the most effective solution. But frost is a factor that mows moustached roommates quickly and cleanly. And even their eggs do not spare.

The application of this method is simply disgraceful:

• all inhabitants are removed from the room, which can be unpleasant temperatures below minus 8 ° C
• windows open
• pipes of heating and hot water are covered
• the room is closed for the day
• at the end of the disinsection, the windows are closed, the apartment is heated, and because of the bedside cabinets, the corpses of cockroaches are sprinkled with frost.

Of course, such a pest control can be carried out only in winter and only in the northern regions of the country - temperatures above minus 8 ° C can be transferred by cockroaches. In addition, such a procedure is fraught with the destruction of the heating and water supply systems.

However, for residents of regions that freeze well in winter, deciding how to deal with cockroaches in a private house, this method may be optimal.

 

Physical methods of struggle

Everything that people try before they realize that it’s time to take an insecticide could be included in this category. As a rule - this is the "sneaker and vacuum cleaner method." Of course, they both do not work.

However, among the physical methods of struggle there is a fairly effective way - the use of special traps.

In most cases, the trap works on the principle of "lured - stick." The insect runs on the smell of vanilla or chocolate, runs into a cozy house, and sticks to a special scotch.

Immediately make a reservation: it is impossible to destroy all cockroaches in a too contaminated apartment in this way.But to keep such traps in places through which cockroaches can enter the apartment from their neighbors is fully justified.

On a note

Modern Chinese traps are perfect for those who wonder how to deal with red cockroaches: in some instances of such houses a home-grown black cockroach will not fit in the prime of life. So the fight against cockroaches in the house with the help of these means has certain limitations.

And be sure to remember that if the fight with red cockroaches or their black brethren began, it should lead with caution around. If insects inhabit neighbour's apartments, one should carry out explanatory work among neighbors and fight insects with joint forces. And always remember that if in the apartment of cockroaches Once it was already good, they will return for pleasures. Therefore, the conditions for their sweet life must be destroyed immediately.

 

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