Ways and means of getting rid of cockroaches
Even in a perfectly clean room, cockroaches can appear. They are able to reproduce in private and multi-storey buildings, offices, hotels, warehouses, factory cabins. The expanse for them is grocery stores and catering establishments. It is useful for everyone to know how to get rid of cockroaches if they accidentally got into the house with things, on clothes, came from neighbors or from the basement, the garbage chute. At home, it is better to fight insects together with neighbors, the entire entrance. At enterprises, public places, processing is ordered by specialists.
Who are the Prussians
Before learning how to get rid of Prussians, it is worth having an idea of insects. There are about 400 species of cockroaches on earth. Redheads often live in apartments and houses, the insects received the nickname Prusak after the war with Napoleon. Troops brought this species of the cockroach family from Prussia. Later, all cockroaches were called Prusaks, although the species have many differences. A description of the most common in Eurasia is given below.
Redheads
Prusak is a very mobile cockroach of brownish-red color with an elongated body up to 1.5 cm long, long antennae.
Note! Transparent larvae also have antennae, they are well oriented in space, hiding from possible danger.
Females are always larger, wider than males, they lay a fetal sac (up to 30 eggs). The female discards the offspring when the larvae begin to gnaw through the protective shell. During its life, an individual makes up to 12 clutches.
Black
Large black or dark gray insects reach 2.5 cm, they exude an unpleasant odor, settle in garbage chutes, sewers, basements. During her life, the female lays up to 20 fetal sacs of 10–12 larvae. Black cockroaches do not settle above the 6th floor, only residents of five-story buildings and lower floors of high-rise buildings suffer from them. Their red counterparts are less mobile, more tenacious, they do not always die after deformation, eggs develop in a female devoid of legs and head.
White
During hatching, the larvae are white, almost transparent. Then they acquire a characteristic color. Young cockroaches are white when they shed their old shell. The new chitin darkens gradually. Insects can lose color from some chemicals.
Cockroaches are thermophilic, with the onset of cold weather they move closer to dwellings. For existence, reproduction, they always find everything they need: water and food. They are nocturnal animals. During the day they appear, when there is not enough food, they go hunting.
Additional information: insects feed not only on plant debris. They eat starchy wallpaper glue, book covers. Cockroaches eat particles of exfoliated epidermis and are able to gnaw the skin from sleeping people. Lick saliva, lacrimal fluid. Gnaw the skin at the eyelashes. Young children are especially often attacked.
Cockroaches are carriers of dangerous infectious diseases and cause allergic reactions. It is difficult to exterminate parasitic insects, they adapt to any conditions, do not lose their ability to reproduce, and, if necessary, change their sex.
How to get rid of cockroaches
It has been noticed that it is more difficult to get rid of the Prussians than from the black relatives. Pests can be exterminated in different ways: chemical, thermal, mechanical. Purchased drugs are not as effective as the treatment of sanitary and epidemiological stations. The safest folk methods. How to get rid of cockroaches at home on your own, without involving special organizations, is worth considering in more detail.
In the House
You can get rid of annoying pests in winter. The house must be cooled, cockroaches die at -5 ° C within two or three days. It should be -10 ° C outside.
Note! Temperature extermination is carried out in homes where there is no hot water heating. Plants and animals are removed from the house. They take out household appliances for which freezing is not provided.
By freezing, they learned to exterminate red cockroaches. Prusak turned out to be more tenacious than a black cockroach.
When it is not possible to use the thermal method to destroy pests, they resort to industrial poisons, household products, described in the next section.
In the apartment
It is possible to drive away insects completely only after professional disinfection of the whole house. Hot fumigation of common areas is carried out with effective drugs that are not sold in stores. How to get rid of cockroaches in one apartment forever: make it inaccessible to migratory pests. But all the same, insects can get in from the outside:
- on bags;
- clothes;
- shoes;
- with products;
- things;
- furniture.
Small cockroaches can be accidentally picked up by guests, children from the street or from school, pets. When an apartment is infected, it is important to take action at the first sign of the Prussians: black traces of life. Soft lumps appear at water sources in the kitchen.
For the fight, gels, crayons, traps, sprays, powders, baits are used. Insecticides are:
- suffocating action, when pests die immediately;
- intestinal, insects cannot eat, drink, die of hunger and dehydration.
Traps are small houses with bait inside.
Important! Chinese models with narrow passages are designed only for Prussians, black cockroaches cannot climb into them.
Crayons outline the baseboards, cabinets for prophylactic purposes. Gels are used in places of mass concentration of cockroaches.
Only adult insects die from store-bought poisons, the treatment has to be repeated when the larvae grow up.
Folk methods of killing cockroaches with boric acid, ammonia do not work during mass reproduction of insects. Cockroaches lick dry boric acid powder when they drink. Ammonium frightens off adults.
Note! For processing, it is better to use different compositions, pests develop immunity to industrial poisons.
At the grocery store
Poisoning cockroaches yourself in a store where there is food is dangerous. Insects will transfer the poison on their paws to food. Traps are set at grocery outlets, you can't get out of them, they use deterrent flavors. Use ammonia when cleaning premises. When there are a lot of cockroaches, professional baiting is used. Hot sprayed special preparations destroy adults, larvae, eggs.
The most effective ways to drive out cockroaches
Fight better with intestinal insecticides. A good method is aerosol treatment, it helps against adults.
Based on user reviews, a rating of effective pest control products has been compiled:
- Paste "Global" is applied with peas at a source of moisture. The drug is low-toxic, long-acting. After 2 weeks, the population dies.
- "Regent" - an intestinal insecticide, produced in ampoules, powder. Odorless, leaves no residue. Minuses:
- toxic to pets, babies;
- does not last long.
- Get is effective against many domestic insects. Available in bottles. Low toxicity, does not smell, does not stain skirting boards, walls. long-acting drug.
- Dohlox-gel is easy to apply in a syringe. Quickly destroys adults, cockroaches suffocate, run out to die in open space. They are easy to assemble. Low-toxic agent. Minus - with prolonged use, it is ineffective, pests get used to the drug.
- "Dichlorvos" kills adult insects, larvae, eggs. The drug is effective, but with an unpleasant odor, toxic. When choosing this tool, take into account the possibility of isolating households, airing the room.
Additional information: It is effective to leave fresh lemon wedges overnight, insects do not like the smell of yellow citrus. The aroma of potted geranium scares off the Prusaks, the leaves are dried, laid out in places where cockroaches may appear.
Is it possible to get rid of cockroaches forever
Treating your home will not save you from a new invasion of insects. Humanity has not figured out how to get rid of cockroaches forever. In order for cockroaches to accidentally enter a home or store, certain conditions must be observed:
- destroy insects at the first sign of their appearance - black dots on walls, interior items, equipment;
- to isolate access to the fodder base, sources of moisture, this can be done in housing, in the store it is problematic;
- for preventive purposes, they set traps in hard-to-reach places, lay out baits of intestinal action;
- install grids on the ventilation ducts so that the Prussians migrating from neighbors or from the basement do not get into the room;
- eliminate cracks in baseboards, walls.
Note! For storing bread, sweets, it is recommended to use containers with a lid. Garbage containers are chosen to be closed.
The risk of occurrence is reduced in places where wet cleaning is regularly carried out, remnants of food and crumbs are removed in a timely manner. In the bathroom, they wipe the plumbing dry, even the condensate that has accumulated after taking the baths, it is advisable to immediately wipe it dry.
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