It is easy to get rid of cockroaches at home today, and the whole procedure for the destruction and expulsion of these insects from the house is quite accessible to the ordinary citizen of a large city, who has never before encountered such difficulties. Nevertheless, each method and each means of getting rid of cockroaches requires its own approach and has a certain set of advantages and disadvantages.
And before you get rid of cockroaches at home, you should get acquainted with all the available options and stop the choice on those tools that are best suited to solve the problem.
Gels from cockroaches - the best solution
Today, gels from cockroaches are the most effective means in most cases (although few people know about this, because there are so many different drugs on the market).
The main advantages of gels are:
- The ability to use without evacuation of all warm-blooded residents from the premises. The gel is simply applied in the right places on the floor, walls, plinth, and for a while it is forgotten. In the meantime, people live, drink tea and watch TV, cockroaches are slowly getting poisoned.
- Ease of use - gels do not require a cunning way of applying and making any special bait. Squeezed out - and forgotten.
- Safety - the composition of almost all modern gels from cockroaches includes special bitterness that does not allow a child, dog or cat to swallow even a drop of money. At the same time, cockroaches pay no attention to these bitterness.
- Efficiency - one tube of gel is usually enough to get rid of cockroaches in a standard two-room apartment, that is, poison hundreds of cockroaches!
Gels act simply: cockroaches either eat them or carry them on their feet to shelters. It is important that the poisoned insect his colleagues will eat with the gel itself, and poisoned as well.
But it is not without gels and certain disadvantages. So, they do not allow for a quick, emergency extermination of cockroaches in the whole apartment in one day, which is sometimes preferable.In general, one can expect a noticeable result when using gels only a week or two after their application.
Feedback
“We in the Vykhino district took an odnushka in the summer. Nice apartment with a balcony. True, there were a lot of cockroaches there, it is clear that the visitors lived before us. I wanted to anoint with gel, which I used to poison at home, but I had to move in a week. The gel would not have time to act. I had to spend half a day and pickle an empty apartment with the Raptor ... "
Alya, Moscow
However, gels are used today more and more often to get rid of cockroaches at home. Not without reason, each manufacturer of aerosols that are well-known until now considers it a matter of honor to release their own gel.
No matter how numerous cockroaches are in the apartment, getting rid of them with the help of the gel will be an easy task:
- It is desirable to heat the syringe or tube of gel in warm water or by rubbing it in your hands.
- In places where cockroaches are most common, small lines of gel droplets are applied. The distance between the drops should be the smaller, the more cockroaches inhabit the apartment. Usually such points of the gel are left with an interval from 5 to 20 cm.
- The gel should be on the surface as long as there are cockroaches in the apartment. If during cleaning the protective line is erased with a cloth, it must be re-applied.
Gels from cockroaches do not incorporate fats, and therefore do not leave stains on those surfaces on which they were applied.
The most famous and effective for today gels for the destruction of cockroaches in the home are the following:
- Storm, which consists of two insecticides of different classes. This combination kills cockroaches especially effectively.
- Fas, a similar drug with a similar composition.
- House-building, the Russian development, well manifests itself when combined with the means of other types of the same brand (for example, with an aerosol form).
- Globol - German insecticidal gel, is considered one of the most effective. However, due to the constant and frequent use in some cities populations of cockroaches appear, resistant to him.
Feedback
“The last time even a proven Globol did not help, I had to call for a sanitary service. There, the guys told me that the whole city was poisoning Globol, and cockroaches began to get used to it. But from their stinking gas all died out in a few hours. ”
Oksana, Tallinn
On a note
Gol Globol today is actively being forged by at least two unclean manufacturers.They produce drugs Global and Global. To distinguish them from the original is quite simple: the real Globol has two letters “o” in the title, and the inscription on the tube and box is labeled in German only.
The average cost of a tube of cockroach gel today is 150-200 rubles. Once again, in comparison with other means of getting rid of cockroaches at home, gels are probably the most affordable and effective.
The use of aerosol insecticides: faster and more harmful
Aerosol preparations, extremely popular a few years ago, with the advent of cockroach gels begin to lose their position in the market. But at the same time they do not lose their effectiveness: deciding how to get rid of cockroaches at home in one day, you should choose them.
The main advantage of aerosols is their high speed. These drugs are not waiting for cockroaches to deign to eat or soil their paws in them - they, along with air, enter the lungs of even those insects that are sitting in their cozy shelters. And from the lungs penetrate the bloodstream, infect the nervous system, after which the pest is already doomed.
The rules for the use of aerosols are such that, while respecting their risk of poisoning any of the inhabitants of the apartment, is minimal (unfortunately, not everyone reads the instructions for using the product, which sometimes causes poisoning).
To treat the premises with an aerosol from cockroaches you need:
- Remove from the premises all people and pets. If in one of the rooms there is an aquarium, it should be covered with glass and turn off the compressor.
- Wear gloves, long-sleeved clothing and a cotton-gauze bandage. You shouldn’t worry too much - most aerosols are not very dangerous for a person, but they can cause allergies or dizziness if you are breathing heavily.
- Close the windows and doors.
- Spray the drug as carefully as possible in places where insects can hide, and treat all surfaces in the apartment with a tool.
- Leave the room and let the facility infuse.
- After three to four hours, ventilate the room and carry out a thorough wet cleaning.
On a note
The basis of most aerosol preparations is Cypermethrin and its derivatives. This substance easily disintegrates in the air, and therefore within a few hours after spraying means ceases to be dangerous.Before that, destroying most of the cockroaches that had time to inhale them.
The disadvantages of aerosols from cockroaches are:
- The ease of their entry into the respiratory tract of a person and the ability to cause allergies, and with abundant inhalation - intoxication.
- The relative high cost - for the treatment of a two-bedroom apartment will need a drug for 1200-1600 rubles. Even the prices for the services of professional pest control are somewhere nearby ...
- A large number of fakes and frank marriage in the market. At this point, you need to look both ways and select proven tools, skillfully distinguishing them from counterfeit.
The recognized leaders in the fight against cockroaches today are:
- Gett aerosol sold in highly recognizable white cylinders with black lettering. His fakes are released with the names Get and Geth.
- Raptor from crawling insects is a very effective drug, in addition to which special traps and gel are produced.
- Sinuzan, which is a strictly professional tool. Cockroaches mow very effectively, but it is dangerous for humans and has an unpleasant smell. Looks like a professional insecticidal drug Tetrix.
When choosing an aerosol for cockroaches for home use, it makes sense to consider only specially adapted home remedies like Gett, Raptor and Raid. No matter how effective professional poisoning may be, using them can be difficult and even dangerous.
Use of dust and crayons
These drugs - rather, a tribute to tradition. They work the same way as gels, but they have no advantages over the latter. The only thing that is sometimes preferred when cockroach control at home precisely powders or crayons - the price.
For example, with a minor infection of the house of cockroaches, you can completely withdraw from it using one pencil Masha for 45 rubles.
The disadvantages of Dustov is the impossibility of their application on vertical surfaces. In addition, many of them can be dangerous to humans, and, being tasted by young children, can cause allergies and digestive disorders.
It is good to use powders and crayons in rooms that remain for a certain period without tenants - summer houses, sanatoria, temporary apartments, student canteens in the summer.
The most popular means today are:
- Masha, crayon, famous since the post-Soviet times. It is still being actively produced to this day, constantly improving the composition and increasing its effectiveness.
- Pyrethrum is perhaps the only completely natural drug for cockroaches, confidently proven to fight them at home.
- Clean House, an effective tool that had time to shine with efficiency before the capture of the market with gels.
Feedback
“... for the winter, the entire camp site is closing. Only watchmen working in shifts are constantly present. The premises are treated with insecticides in the form of dusts, which are removed from all the houses during spring cleaning. This ensures the absence of cockroaches and ants in the rooms for the rest ... "
Alyona, Balaclava
Freezing cockroaches
This way of fighting cockroaches at home is very effective, but it has serious limitations:
- all cockroaches die out in the room only when the temperature drops below minus 8 ° C. Accordingly, this temperature still needs to wait. Not everyone has this opportunity.
- Frost in the room is dangerous not only for cockroaches, but also for heating and water supply systems.
- Freezing cockroaches gives only a temporary effect.When the temperature returns to the previous framework, the cockroaches will again inhabit the apartment, coming from the neighbors.
Nevertheless, it is very simple to process cabins, warehouses, workshops and empty summer cottages: windows open in the room, all water supply systems are turned off and cockroaches are destroyed.
Cockroaches trap
The most effective today are traps with an adhesive plate in the middle. Of them a cockroach can not get out. Such traps in various forms are sold in markets and shops, but it’s unlikely to make such a trap at home (although there are craftsmen who make them out of cardboard and sticky scotch).
You can make a simple but effective trap from a regular half-liter can with your own hands. The upper part of its inner walls should be thoroughly lubricated with vegetable oil, and dripped honey at the bottom. Attracted pests will fall into the jar and be fed with honey, but they will not be able to get out of the trap.
Popular today traps that kill cockroaches by electric discharge, are relatively ineffective and do not have special advantages over traps with stickies.
And parallel “high current disinfection” is a myth,where sellers of such traps are trying to separate themselves from competitors.
Folk remedies
To famous folk remedies for the fight against cockroaches at home include the following:
- boric acid, which is used as a poison from cockroaches in the composition of various baits.
- Ammonia, which is added to the water when washing floors. Cockroaches are very sensitive to its smell, and with a slight infection of the apartment they can escape from it at such events.
- Unfolding strongly smelling herbs in places of insects. Among these herbs - wormwood, St. John's wort, sage. However, such measures will not destroy insects, but only scare them away.
General folk anti-cockroaches ineffective. They really help only sometimes, when the insects themselves in the room is a little. With a serious infection of the apartment should be taken destroying drugs of direct action.
The same tools, like ultrasonic repellents, are generally not effective and can only be used for interior decoration. Therefore, if cockroaches need to be fought effectively, gels, aerosols, frost or dust must be used.
Successful fight against cockroaches!
Why sometimes cockroaches can not be removed from the apartment ...
Comparison of the effectiveness of aerosols, traps, crayons and gels from cockroaches
When cockroaches appear in the house, the first desire is to quickly get rid of unpleasant pests and to protect themselves from their penetration in the future. ...
To choose an effective remedy for cockroaches today is not difficult: due to the high competition in the market, manufacturers are literally forced to produce de ...
Today, there are many tools to fight cockroaches, and when choosing one of them a reasonable question arises whether it is sufficient ...
Try aerosol
Many thanks to the authors for the detailed and high-quality advice. Very good and friendly presentation of the material.
Thanks for the info, a very useful article.
Buy yogurt or dessert (especially there is air with jam), small plastic packages. You are happy to eat, and pour 3-4 cm of water into an empty package and put it on the night where there are a lot of cockroaches. In the morning you will see how many drowned kukaraches will be!
Let's try
Our cockroaches are completely bummed already live in the freezer. They are neither cold nor poison for nothing, will survive a nuclear war.
I decided to share my bitter experience. Every time, mastering a new home, I first of all treated the apartment from any evil spirits with the help of a proven company. The results of many years of positive. That year, in the early spring, cockroaches suddenly crawled. Contact previous not found. Called from other companies 3 times. Everyone promised a result, but my creatures only said thank you. Tried various means: sprays, combat, dichlorvos, gels and electromagnetic and ultrasonic repeller Pest Redzhekt. BUT TARAKANOV is getting bigger and bigger.A month has passed - the flies become stupid, the mole, if it flies, flies, the cockroaches are shocked, but not frightened. The worst thing is that they crawl towards people, climb to their feet when I sit at the computer. Imagine, already 3 cockroaches asked for help on my legs. I am terrified. I already, in my opinion, the psychosis begins. And tonight I accidentally saw a recommendation: put a chopped onion and an apple in a glass container smeared with oil. Put in the company and in the kitchen. They are very active from 00 to 2 nights. I went to the kitchen at 1 o'clock. And oh, horror - they walk as many as 6 pieces, but they are so big ... But lethargic. I catch them with a wet sponge, rough side, and down the toilet. But in the prepared dishes on the bow was only 1 small from the company. I left him until the morning, and in the morning he came to life and, in my opinion, grew up. Here is such a horror. Claim that they are in apartments where there is trouble. I live alone, no one in the family has no worries. I think we should try different baits: banana, yogurt, cucumber. She suggested that the neighbors do the processing of the whole entrance, but they say that everything is clean. Believe it? If there are recommendations, I will be very grateful.
In Soviet times, parents were brought from the secret enterprise tiuran powder — radioactive; they poured it onto the paper and cockroaches left the whole house.How it affected us - radiation, of course, but the parents did not think about it ... We were often sick. Therefore, now I do not use any chemistry, and the cockroaches are overpowered - the neighbor (grandmother) drags home with the garbage, and no means from reptiles help. All the neighbors are exhausted, and she, at least, is dirty and mad. It is difficult to evict such now - she pays for the apartment and the entrance even washes, the yard sweeps. There is no noise from her, but here the whiskeys are terrified, they even climb into the freezer! Therefore, how many do not withdraw, while such roommates live in the stairwell, it is useless.
I read somewhere that the toad should be turned on - they eat them well. A bowl of water to her, and she will eat all these reptiles. Someone even started a few toads, instead of cats)) But they got rid of cockroaches. And throw a toad to a babus ... Laughter with laughter, but the whole house suffers from one such mess! I think that it is not human methods that are necessary here, but magic ones, or grandmother to bring out, or cockroaches to repulse. But grandma is a man, and no man can wish for evil. To repulse the hunt for garbage business - banks are looking for bottles, and at home they are dismantling these garbage bags - horror! At the entrance the stench is so worth it that we are wide open with our neighbors and air fresheners.Good luck to everyone in getting rid of these creatures, and the neighbors cleanliness!
And small Masha does not harm the dogs in the apartment? Or is it better to close it or transport it somewhere?
Great article, be sure to try everything at once. My grandmother cockroaches - horror! She sees very badly and does not want to move in with us. These reptiles live with her, as the owners of the apartment, crawling always and everywhere at any time of the day, do not even try to run away when you start to kill them. Although my grandmother has a new apartment in a new house, renovation. From where Herbal professional means, but zero sense. And the ultrasound is generally on the drum)) Moreover, they like it in this device, a whole flock lives and enjoys. Tomorrow I will buy Raptor spray, gels, powder and velcro. Granny while in the hospital, we will withdraw.