How to kill cockroaches in the apartment and to whom to entrust pest control

It is useful to bear in mind that it is possible not only to kill cockroaches in an apartment on their own, but also by special disinsection services. However, both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages.

The first option is good because it usually allows you to save a considerable amount of money - and this factor turns out to be decisive for many. However, at the same time, people often overestimate their strength, believing that it is enough to dab slightly Dichlorvos, sprinkle borin with boric acid - and voila, most of the hated cockroaches are destroyed, and the survivors fled to their neighbors ...

However, in practice, everything is far from being so smooth, and there is a serious risk of unsuccessfully spending considerable time and energy on self-disinfestation carried out, if you don’t understand what cockroaches should do to achieve a really high effect and how to do it correctly.These issues we consider in more detail below.

Calling professional pest control saves the landlord from most of the hassle of killing cockroaches, but it does require a certain amount of cash. And if somewhere in the province the saved amount is not too significant, then, for example, to pity the cockroaches in Moscow or St. Petersburg can cost a lot of money already, especially with a large apartment area.

And what a sin to conceal, in the market of disinsection services today a lot of fraudulent one-day firms that provide frankly inefficient services have divorced.

Feedback:

“A terrible office ***, sheer deception - like cockroaches crawling along the walls in the kitchen, they continue to crawl. Disgusting attitude to customers, the dispatcher calls one amount, the processor requires another, and for what it is not clear. They promised to process the whole apartment, and they only sprayed the kitchen and a little floor in the hallway. Now require more money for re-processing. Reviews on the Internet are all wonderful, but this is a natural deception, I do not recommend this company. ”

Olga, Moscow

In any case, whichever version of the fight against cockroaches you choose (by yourself or by professionals), it is useful to first understand some important nuances,knowledge of which will immediately save you from common mistakes and many problems.

If you want to kill cockroaches on your own - please, but keep in mind that some people “struggle” with these insects in the literal sense for years, and all because they did not understand the basic approaches to solving this problem. If you want to call a disinsection service, that's fine, but choose a company correctly - we'll talk about that too.

So, as you already understood, in order to effectively fight against cockroaches it is often far from enough to simply buy some kind of tool and apply it in an apartment. A more competent approach to the destruction of cockroaches is as follows:

1. The ways of possible penetration of cockroaches into an apartment are determined, neighbors are polled for the presence of these insects - this will be necessary in order to prevent the cockroaches from subsequently entering the room again and again;
2. Identify common causes that led to breeding cockroaches in the apartment (regular presence of leftover food on the table, a leaking tap, regularly supplying the insects with the water they need, etc.);
3. Get out and buy effective remedies for cockroaches, and not one, but several means with a different mechanism of action;
4. It identifies the main places where insects prefer to hide, as well as areas where they can be found most often (when you kill cockroaches, directional impact on these areas will give the maximum effect, and there is no sense to scatter insecticide all over the apartment or spray it slightly Do not to the ceiling, as some do);
5. The actual use of the purchased funds in the room;
6. Preventive measures are being implemented to protect the apartment from the re-entry of cockroaches into it.

Consider these points in more detail.

 

Assess the overall situation with cockroaches in the apartment

If there are a lot of cockroaches in an apartment, then it is sometimes better to kill them with a special strategy. A typical example: insects constantly catch the eye not only at night, but also during the day, running around in bedside tables and cupboards in the kitchen, when cleaning the scoop turns out to be a large amount of remnants of their chitinous covers after molting. It is in such a situation that the cockroaches are better off complexed, as selective measures to combat them can only have a partial effect.

When there are very few cockroaches in an apartment, it is easy to pity them even by using insecticidal gels alone, it is only important to choose and use them correctly.

For a very rough estimate of the degree of contamination of the room, you can conduct the following simple test: suddenly turn on the light at night and try to count all the observed cockroaches. If during the conduct of three such tests the number of cockroaches each time exceeds 10, then we can congratulate you: your apartment is a real paradise for cockroaches.

Usually in such cases on the shelves, cabinets, walls and tables come across cockroaches of different sizes - from very small larvae (nymphs), to large well-fed females, dragging behind them the so-called ootheca, full of eggs. Sometimes you can even find white cockroaches who have just faded.

The presence of cockroaches of different sizes and ages means that pests in an apartment have settled for a very long time and are actively breeding. In such situations, as one of the stages of successive control, it will be preferable to thoroughly treat the contaminated premises with powerful insecticidal agents in the form of sprays or aerosols.

If cockroaches are caught in quite a small amount - for example, no more than 1-2 individuals during each test described above - then it may be sufficient to use insecticide gels and glue traps, which in a few weeks will completely destroy insects and protect the room from the penetration of new ones.

It is also very useful to communicate with neighbors. If they also have cockroaches, then with a high probability they in one or another quantity move to your apartment, and besides simply having to pity them, it will be necessary to prevent the penetration of cockroaches into housing in the future.

 

Choosing a remedy for cockroaches

Very effective means of cockroaches are some concentrated insecticidal preparations that need to be diluted with water before use. Many of them are used by professional insect control services. These tools, when properly applied, allow for a relatively short period of time to pacify cockroaches, even with a huge amount of them in the house.

Here is a brief list of some fairly effective drugs:

1. Get (Get) - practically odorless, very effective, acts on the treated surfaces for several weeks. The drug contains a microencapsulated insecticide, therefore reliably poisons cockroachesthat simply crawl over the treated surface (insecticide particles stick to the paws and the body of the insect). The price of Get insect repellent is approximately 800 rubles per 100 ml bottle. This volume is usually enough to handle the kitchen and another room.
2. Delta-Zone and Lambda-Zone are also highly effective microencapsulated, odorless preparations (Delta-Zone contains insecticide deltamethrin, and Lambda-Zone contains lambda-cyhalothrin). Both are worth about 650 rubles per 50 ml, one bottle is enough to handle 100 square meters. m. surfaces.
3. Xsulat Micro, also a microencapsulated, odorless drug, the high efficiency of which is based on the use of three fairly powerful insecticides in its composition (they can even kill those populations of cockroaches that have developed resistance to individual poison). The price of Ksulat Micro is about 450 rubles per bottle of 30 ml, which is enough for processing surfaces of 40 square meters.
4. Perhaps, it is worth noting also obsolete and strongly smelling Karbofos (also known as Malathion), which is sold in bottles, cans, ampoules and in the form of powder for dilution with water. Efficient and inexpensive enough, but has a strong unpleasant odor.

Somewhat inferior to these drugs in terms of efficiency, and sometimes in terms of efficiency, aerosol insect repellents are ready-to-use solutions of insecticides in spray cans. For example:

1. Raptor;
2. Raid;
3. Combat;
4. Dichlorvos Neo;
5. Dichlorvos Eco

…and many others.

Small aerosol cans are easy to use and, if used properly, also give a good result. It is best to kill them cockroaches in cases where they know the exact location of their predominant dislocation in the room.

The above types of funds are highly desirable to combine with additional drugs that have a different mechanism of action.

For example, it is also possible to effectively kill cockroaches with means in the form of gels - these are, in essence, gel lures with poison, which are applied in places where cockroaches move, attract them with their smell and leave no chance for survival after being ingested. It is easy to apply the gel on both horizontal and vertical surfaces.

Examples of insecticidal gels effective against cockroaches:

• Globol;
• Raptor;
• Storm;
• Fas;
• Dohlox;
• Brownie Proshka.

On a note

Gels from reputable manufacturers are safe for children and pets. They contain bitterness, which cockroaches do not feel, and in a child (or animal) they immediately cause a desire to spit out a drop of money.

Gels, unlike aerosols or sprays, do not kill cockroaches quickly, but they systematically reduce the number of their populations. In addition, the use of gels is not associated with the obligatory necessity of spraying “chemistry” in the apartment, which some residents are sometimes so afraid of.

Moving on. The so-called cockroach traps are good with a small number of insects in the apartment, as well as with periodic contact with certain individuals from the neighbors (that is, for use for the purpose of prevention). With a high number of insects using traps, you can also catch the main part of them, but this will take considerable time.

Very effective adhesive and electric traps for cockroaches.

Cockroaches can also be littered with insecticidal powders (also called dusts), pencils (for example, everyone knows the pencil from Masha's cockroaches) and folk remedies based on borax and boric acid.It is not so important which of these options you choose, it is desirable that this should not be the only means you use. Combine powders with gels, aerosols, sprays, traps - and the result will be incomparably more pronounced.

 

Companies that can be entrusted with pest control

Calling the exterminators, it should be remembered that too low cost of service work, than the average for the market, can mean the low quality of services that you will be offered. It is useful to clarify in advance exactly what means the workers of the service are starving to cockroaches - there are cases when after work of the disinsection service the residents had to throw up the upholstered furniture, as it kept the persistent unpleasant smell of insecticides for months.

If you want to call the district SES (Sanitary and Epidemiological Station) for processing the premises, then keep in mind that it can be extremely difficult to call them for the processing of one apartment. Still, it is a state office with all the ensuing bureaucratic costs. At the same time, SES and small firms, which also often like to insert the word “Sanitary and Epidemiological Station” in their name, should not be confused.

It is possible to pity the cockroaches in Moscow using, for example, the services of the companies Geradez, Klop-Control, Klop-Stop, Dezalit, Descentre and some others. Branches of the companies Geradez and Dezalit, as well as local services, which should be chosen according to the advice of their friends and relatives, operate in large cities of the country.

The cost of disinsection services in good companies starts from 2000-3000 rubles for a one-room apartment - and this with a guarantee of the absence of cockroaches for six months (or they will offer repeated free processing when they appear). If you don’t want a student with a garden sprayer to come to you, but really a professional with appropriate workwear and normal equipment, then choose a company carefully, and not by the first phone or site.

 

Morim cockroaches as efficiently and safely

Before you kill cockroaches, you must carefully prepare all surfaces and furniture for processing. For this:

1. From the cabinets and cabinets removed all the utensils, and they are moved away from the walls;
2. In the storerooms and closets shelves are vacated;
3. Free access to all plinths in the room;
4. At preliminary detection of places of shelters of insects approaches to them are released;
5. People and pets are taken out of the room, the aquariums are covered with glass and the compressors are turned off.

After that, if required, the preparation itself is prepared (for example, if a concentrate is used, it must be diluted in accordance with the instructions).

If cockroaches are planned to be littered with sprays and aerosols, the funds are applied to the maximum number of surfaces in the contaminated room, all places of possible cockroach shelters are processed (remember, it was stated above that it is important to find such places in advance), baseboards, walls, cabinets and bedside cabinets, space behind the stove.

Then the apartment closes for 1-2 hours, and the handler leaves it. Upon return, a thorough airing of the room and wet cleaning is done.

Gels are applied to the back surfaces of the cabinets, refrigerator and stove, as well as along the plinths, behind the furniture, on the upper surfaces inside cabinets and shelves - everywhere where cockroaches can run, but where it is rarely cleaned.Means put drops at a distance of 2-3 cm from one another in the form of lines. After that, you should try not to wash off and not erase such “dotted lines” for at least two weeks.

Traps for cockroaches are placed in those places where insects come across the eye most often. As the traps are filled with dead insects, they should be cleaned or replaced.

And it should always be remembered that from the first time cockroaches can sometimes be difficult to get even professional exterminators. Insects can hide in ventilation, can simply come from neighbors again. Therefore, re-processing of the premises is a normal phenomenon even in the practice of the squads (that is, it is not necessary to immediately think that you were deceived and you were wasting money).

The apartment owners themselves should take protective preventive measures to prevent the appearance of unwanted guests: periodically ventilate insecticidal agents with a barrier effect, maintain cleanliness in the house and promptly throw out garbage, take care of high-quality insulation of doors and windows. With such an integrated approach, cockroaches will most likely never appear in your apartment again.

Good luck in fighting these pests!

 

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