How to permanently get rid of black cockroaches in the house

Many people suffer from the appearance of black cockroaches in their home, apartment or country cottage. These insects look scary, spread an unpleasant odor, spoil food, and may well be carriers of infections. The question immediately arises: how to deal with the problem, how to deal with cockroaches? Today we will try to consider all the most effective methods, their features, distinctive features and level of effectiveness.

• How do they get into the house?
• Danger from insects
• Safe and effective folk remedies
• Insecticides
• Modern means
• Calling professional exterminators

How do they get into the house?

First, you need to identify several ways these pests can enter your home. Then you will need this information to make your preventive measures more effective. Here are the important points.

• Most often they come from neighbors. This happens especially easily when a variety of methods are used in another apartment to scare them away. To prevent this from happening, try to close all the cracks, do not forget to cover the sockets with plugs, and also block the ventilation holes with meshes.
• Through ventilation, as well as directly through the door, insects can enter from the basement or entrance.
• You can bring them into the house along with things and furniture. This happens especially often if people buy used furniture.

Take precautions!

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What do black cockroaches prefer for lunch?

Generally speaking, the cockroach is an omnivore, and it would probably be easier to list what they don’t eat than what they do eat. Of course, if you often leave dirty dishes until the evening when you leave for work, then you make an excellent feeder for black cockroaches. They will not only eat themselves, but will also invite neighboring cockroaches from another apartment.

But don’t think that if you become clean, cockroaches will immediately leave your house. These insects don’t just give up; firstly, they can live without food for more than a month, and secondly, they can eat paper and even polyethylene. Cockroaches have such bacteria in their stomachs that they can digest anything. Therefore, in order to defeat them, you will have to be patient and be prepared for the fact that they may even damage some of your property.

Danger from insects

It should be understood that pests pose a certain danger to humans, so it is necessary to combat them. Here are just the main factors.

• They are carriers of various infections; they spread germs throughout the apartment and into food.
• May cause allergic reactions and irritation.
• They spoil food and leather goods.
• Large individuals are capable of making such rustling noises and loud sounds that they even interfere with sleep. In the silence of the night, the results of their movements are especially clearly audible.

In addition, many people try to get rid of pests as soon as possible because their appearance is very disgusting.

Safe and effective folk remedies

Most people prefer to use folk remedies in the fight against cockroaches. They often turn out to be quite effective, since the methods are proven, and they have practically no side effects.

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Let us outline several advantages of such traditional folk methods.

• The recipes are elementary. The products are really easy to prepare and use.
• Typically, such options are the most profitable from an economic point of view.
• Safe to use in families with children.
• You can safely use it if there are animals, birds or fish in the room.
• Such folk techniques are optimally suited for people with hypersensitivity. They do not provoke irritation or allergic reactions.

There will be no problems when using folk recipes for elderly owners or people with various chronic diseases.

Several effective traditional methods

First of all, take care of the lack of water. It should not be accessible to pests, since with its help they will get rid of poisoning. Check for leaks, remove all water from the kitchen and bathroom, and keep it only in closed containers.

Let us dwell on several folk methods of combating parasites in a private home.

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• Duct tape. It is sold ready-made. It is best to place the tapes in different places, in areas where insects are likely to pass: near food cabinets, baseboards and cracks, and ventilation holes. It's a good idea to use these types of tapes and baits at the same time.
• Freezing. At low temperatures, the insects themselves and the larvae die. It is enough to bring the temperature to a level of five degrees below zero and leave the apartment like that for three to four hours.
• Essential oils. When fighting black cockroaches using traditional methods, ethers are used. These pests cannot tolerate strong odors. And with essential oils diluted in warm water, you can successfully treat various surfaces.
• Acetic acid. A good remedy that also allows you to quickly scare away. Acetic acid is diluted with water, and then sprayed onto baseboards, perimeter rooms, spaces under furniture and behind cabinets. Particular attention is paid to the bathroom and kitchen. Unfortunately, the smell may irritate sensitive people. This method cannot be used if there are children or animals in the house.
• Boric acid. It needs to be mixed with yolk and potatoes to reduce the smell. This product is guaranteed to kill insects within a couple of days.
• Plants. Of the houseplants, geranium fights insects best. They cannot stand its smell, so they will leave the room.

Choose the appropriate methods, combine different means for a comprehensive effect.

Reasons and sources of black cockroaches appearing in an apartment

Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution have served cockroaches well, providing them with excellent vision and the ability to detect any odors, so finding a new source of food and the water so necessary for life is not a difficult task. Human apartments are by no means impregnable citadels, but habitual places of residence, and there are several established ways to penetrate them:

1. Garbage chutes, basements and ventilation shafts are the most common sources of arthropods entering an apartment . It is interesting that throughout the summer insects can calmly live in these parts of the house without being detected, and only with the onset of the first cold weather do they begin to migrate en masse closer to humans.
2. The sewer system is an acceptable habitat for cockroaches. Resistance to water (the ability to not drown for a long time) allows them to travel through pipes, unexpectedly appearing in kitchen sinks, bathtubs, and toilets.
3. Neighbors' apartments are an eternal source of cockroach migration. One or two “bad” apartments in a building are enough to cause trouble for all residents. However, there is one caveat - the higher the floor, the lower the likelihood of cockroaches appearing . The distribution of humidity in the building plays a significant role in this; as a rule, all floors above the fifth are drier, and therefore not so tempting for insects.
4. Things brought home can sometimes become a source of infection in the apartment. For example, furniture and household appliances purchased second-hand, returned from a repair shop, or brought from the dacha. Even a book borrowed from friends (or borrowed from the library) can harbor a fertile resident under the spine or between the pages. Therefore, you should carefully inspect every new item in the house.
5. Hotels, hostels, transport. You can bring cockroaches into your apartment after returning from a trip, for example, in a suitcase or with hand luggage.
6. Various retail outlets located on the ground floors of apartment buildings. Not all of them strictly comply with sanitary standards. Increasingly, the source of the problem is not neighbors, but a convenience store or small cafe.

The fact that a cockroach enters an apartment does not indicate its permanent residence there. In a clean and well-kept house, where cleaning is carried out regularly and garbage is taken out, an insect may feel like an unwelcome guest and go in search of a more “comfortable” home.

Insecticides

Insecticides are considered more effective. They are available in different formats. Let's look at the main options.

• Gels. Such drugs should be selected in specialized or hardware stores. The product is usually sold in a large syringe, completely ready for use. For example, it does not have to be bred. It is recommended to apply the insecticide around the entire perimeter of the room, for example, on baseboards, near furniture. A step of approximately 10 cm is observed. It takes approximately 10 days for all the insects to die. “Raptor” has become the most famous; “Liquidator” and other drugs help well.
• Crayons. A good option if you use the product correctly, in full accordance with the instructions. Using crayons, you should be extremely careful and thoroughly treat all surfaces, baseboards, and cracks in a private home. This is done pointwise, along the perimeters. The desired effect can be achieved in a month.
• Aerosols. The most effective modern method for exterminating cockroaches. It is recommended to carefully treat all possible areas where insects may accumulate with aerosols. These are window frames with jambs, baseboards with cracks.
• Traps. A good tool, quite effective. The trap visually resembles a box, a matchbox. It has several holes for insects to enter, and the poison is placed inside. When insects are attracted to the poison, they then carry it to their nests and fatally infect other insects.

• Houses. An interesting technique against cockroaches involves luring and then destroying them. The boxes are made of cardboard and are shaped like houses. The walls inside are very sticky, and bait is also placed inside. The pests go after her, but they can’t get back.

A good solution is to combine different types of insecticides at the same time. This will guarantee a positive result in a short time and effectively poison cockroaches.

Preventive actions

After getting rid of insects, it is necessary to keep the apartment clean to avoid re-infestation. Follow simple preventive measures:

• wash dishes immediately after eating, without leaving them for later;
• store bread and pastries in plastic bags;
• carefully collect crumbs, preventing them from falling on the floor;
• periodically clean your kitchen cabinets, make sure that cereals and flour are stored in closed containers;
• throw away garbage on time;
• carry out wet cleaning daily;
• Treat the baseboards with insecticides every three months.

Maintaining order in the house and preventive treatment will help you forget about the presence of black cockroaches.

Modern means

Nowadays, innovative means for effective control of insects are emerging. They allow you to carry out work very quickly, but at the same time achieve success. Typically, such effective methods and preparations are used by professional exterminators.

Such modern means have two features. First of all, it is worth noting that they are not widely available. Such drugs are obtained on an individual order from specialized companies. In addition, in order to use them competently, you must have certain skills. Special modern equipment will also be required.

Steam generators

This is a great method. A special device generates steam from an insecticide aimed at the pest. Cold and hot fog techniques are commonly used.

Why is this method so attractive? A huge advantage is the large penetrating power of steam. He will be able to easily get into the most inaccessible places that are difficult to reach mechanically. For example, surfaces behind furniture will be treated. This technique allows not only to effectively destroy existing insects, but also to provide protection for the future.

Another plus is fast complex processing. Covers a large area with one device generating steam that will be poisonous to cockroaches. At the same time, the quality of processing does not depend on the complexity of the layout, quantity and furniture and personal items.

Repellers, traps

Nowadays, the popularity of electronic traps, as well as devices that repel insects, is increasing. They act with magnetic and ultrasonic radiation, forcing cockroaches to immediately leave the contaminated premises.

Experts and numerous users note that these devices actually help solve the problem. They are durable, extremely easy to use, and at the same time have a very affordable cost. Manufacturers also claim that such devices are completely safe for plants and animals and harmless to human health.

All these advantages are noted in reviews by buyers of such devices.

Preliminary preparation for breeding

To fully eliminate pests, comprehensive measures are used to destroy insects and eliminate the cause of their spread. Before you begin the process of getting rid of them, carry out preliminary preparations, which include the following steps:

1. Hide the food. Remove all food debris and crumbs from the table, sink and other places by thoroughly wiping the surfaces (preferably with detergents). If there are drops of grease on the tiles (usually near the stove), wash them off.
2. Remove water sources. There should be no cups with leftover drinks, puddles of water or other liquid left on the table. Be sure to dry the sink, bathtub, and close the toilet with a lid.
3. Clean up. Sweep out all the garbage and wash the floor with bleach (white), wipe the window sills.
4. Seal the cracks. To prevent cockroaches from hiding and new individuals from entering the apartment, cover all the cracks in the floor and walls with alabaster or special construction putty.
5. Warn your neighbors. Since insects, when baited, will begin to escape through the exhaust hole into nearby apartments, be sure to notify your neighbors about your actions - they need to protect their premises. For example, install a repeller, a trap, etc.
6. Prepare the poison. If necessary, make a solution or other remedy. Be sure to use protective equipment - rubber gloves, construction respirator.