Exterminating cockroaches in an apartment with your own hands is the only sure way out when entire hordes of uninvited guests appear, literally attacking the kitchen or living room. After all, they are not only disgusting in appearance, but also dangerous to health and become carriers of various diseases when they carry germs on their paws. Females quickly lay eggs, thereby the population number increases significantly every day. Rams are lovers of water and food, so they accumulate in garbage dumps, landfills and in places where food is found, left unattended by the owners, i.e. in the open.
Cockroaches are carriers of dysentery, helminthic infestations and even allergies. If it gets into, for example, an electrical appliance, it can lead to a short circuit and ultimately lead to a breakdown of the device. They like to settle in hidden places: under baseboards, in ventilation, and other crevices, which poses some difficulties when breeding. Of course, if they have already settled in the apartment, they will not leave on their own. This means that you need to take urgent measures to eliminate them, before their rapid increase in numbers leads to a real breeding ground for cockroaches in your apartment.
Why do cockroaches appear?
Cockroaches appear in places where there is virtually no sanitation or is in poor condition. These are trash cans, places to keep food without packaging. Insects need food and water, so the kitchen is their favorite place. It happens that they involuntarily end up in furniture, things, books, or they can migrate from neighbors.A shelter left unattended creates ideal conditions for insects to breed. But they are quite tenacious. They can easily live up to 7 days without water, up to 30 days without food, and even up to 7 days without a head. In addition, it moves quickly at a speed of 50 km/h. The main thing is to take timely measures to destroy them.
Methods of disposal
Humanity has come up with many different ways to combat harmful insects. To get rid of them forever, you need effective and radical methods. Of course, first of all, you need to put things in order in the apartment, remove all food crumbs from the table and in secluded places, block insects’ access to trash cans, tanks and even sewer pipes, since cockroaches can crawl from there. You can fight such dangerous neighbors using physical, chemical or mixed methods. The best thing is in the complex. You can set traps and use insecticides with toxic substances to carry out pest control indoors. To obtain more effective results, traditional methods of fighting insects will not be superfluous.
Chemical methods. Today, the market sells many different concentrated powders and aerosols with active ingredients that kill parasites outright within the first 3 hours after treatment. Concentrated substances do not lead to addiction and the development of immunity in insects. But you should use aerosols carefully, wear a respirator and gloves on your hands, and also read the instructions for use.
Physical methods of influence are:
- setting traps;
- crushing insects with any object;
- gluing adhesive tape to baseboards, window sills, i.e. to all places where pests may accumulate;
- decomposing baits (sausage, fried croutons, salad with mayonnaise) and spices into jars and placing them in places where cockroaches gather;
- connecting electrical devices for electric shock when hit by an insect.
Today, “Combat” traps are in demand as a super-effective method of destruction, when an insect falls into a trap, eats the poisoned bait and returns to its relatives, infecting them. Kombat manufacturers guarantee complete extermination of insects within 2-3 weeks after starting to use the device. The trap leads to the absorption of cuticle particles, damage to the armor layer of cockroaches and death after 2-3 hours. It does not lead to the development of immunity in insects; the method is also good for preventive purposes to combat cockroaches. But of course, the appearance of large hordes cannot be dealt with alone without other chemicals and is capable of killing only isolated specimens with electric shocks.
It is no longer possible to do without additional methods, or best of all, a combination of chemical, physical and freezing procedures. The freezing method has been known for a long time. Cockroaches are afraid of low temperatures and -5 degrees quickly die. This procedure can, of course, be forgiven in winter, but care must be taken to cover the batteries so that an accidental breakthrough does not occur. There is a high probability that cockroaches will run to the neighbors, so you need to carefully close all existing cracks in the sewer system and ventilation hood.
TOP best insecticides
Today, modern chemotherapy drugs are effective and cope quite well with parasites. They kill outright in a matter of days and remain effective for several months in a row.
- Get K with the active substance chlorpyrifos with the effect retained after use for 5-6 months.
- Dr Klaus aerosol with active ingredients: tetramethrin and cypermethrin in the combined formula guarantees the destruction of the population in a matter of days, and does not lead to adaptation of cockroaches.
- Exil Paste gel containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos from German manufacturers for applying dotted lines in places where parasites accumulate.
- Ultragel Maxforce with the active substance imidacloprid leads to the complete death of the population as a whole after a couple of days and remains active for 2 months.
The following chemicals are considered quite effective: Diochlox, Forsyth, Raptor, Kombat, Clean House, Trix, Karbofos, boric acid, dust.
Today, cans for spraying areas where insects gather are popular against Prussians. Poison if ingested leads to immediate death.
What else can you poison?
People have long used boric acid as bait with tactical compounds. This is a fairly cheap and effective powder for treating an average area by sprinkling paths and blocking parasites’ access to food and water. To make it more attractive with boric acid, it’s good to add mashed cookies, flour, starch, and sugar. You can add an egg yolk and roll the resulting mass into balls and place it in areas where cockroaches gather.
Of course, the appearance of multiple cockroaches can hardly be dealt with using home methods alone. Strong chemicals are needed. But taking measures will help completely get rid of unpleasant inhabitants.
If you don’t have time to carry out pest control in your apartment, you can call a specialized service for exterminating cockroaches, which is guaranteed to carry out the procedure in 1.5-2 hours and get rid of uninvited guests with a guarantee of up to 2 years.
The main thing is to prevent cockroaches from becoming a breeding ground; if you see at least one of them, immediately take elimination measures, carry out a general cleaning of the room, and cut off their access to food and water. Eventually, the insects will leave your home. It is garbage, food debris and dirt that create ideal conditions for cockroaches to breed. They willingly move into cluttered apartments, where it is no longer possible to quickly clean them, and the population size is thereby steadily growing. Nevertheless, by carrying out events in the complex, it is quite possible to get rid of cockroaches forever.
