by OldGuy » 06 Dec 2024, 17:49
There was a time in my past when I lived in apartment loaded with cockroaches. I woke up my first night after moving in to find them crawling all over me in bed. The landlady lived downstairs and she was very involved in her gardening. Seemed her habits attracted the little buggers. Her reply to my complaints was "You don't get rid of them. You just name them."
At any rate, I discovered a method that really worked even though the landlady kept right on attracting them right downstairs. The cockroaches completely vanished from my apartment within a couple of weeks, and the method was so complete I never saw another one on my apartment for the next 3 years without any added effort. I finally moved to a different state with new employment.
Thing is, it was also dirt cheap. One application. I even did it for a few restaurants over the years and they never saw another one after that.
Go to a local drug store or market and pick up a bottle of boric acid. It is a fine ground powder used with water to clean babies eyes. Cheap; maybe a couple of bucks. Go to the grocery store and get a box of fine ground corn meal. Again, a super cheap product.
Mix them 50/50. Sprinkle small amounts all around the bottom edges at the walls in every room. Small enough amounts you can just leave it there. Do the same at the back edges of every drawer and cabinet and just leave it there. It is little more than light dust around the edges.
Cockroaches are attracted to it due to the cornmeal. when they crawl through it they get covered by the boric acid dust. Thing is, when they go back to their nests somewhere in the walls, they carry all that boric acid back to their own nests. They end up eating it as they clean themselves and so do all the others, including all the hatching newborns just as part of their daily routines.
Boric acid is not toxic. There is no danger for your own pets or babies who might come in contact with it. You can leave it in place for years so it will remain very effective. However, once those little critters ingest it, it tends to expand in their gut. It will become gassy inside them to the point they explode, instantly killing them. The same explosion happens to every one of them in the nest, including all their next generations of young. There are none left to come out into your living space. The job is done for as long as you leave the stuff in place even if new critters come into your space.
Are you happy now?
There was a time in my past when I lived in apartment loaded with cockroaches. I woke up my first night after moving in to find them crawling all over me in bed. The landlady lived downstairs and she was very involved in her gardening. Seemed her habits attracted the little buggers. Her reply to my complaints was "You don't get rid of them. You just name them."
At any rate, I discovered a method that really worked even though the landlady kept right on attracting them right downstairs. The cockroaches completely vanished from my apartment within a couple of weeks, and the method was so complete I never saw another one on my apartment for the next 3 years without any added effort. I finally moved to a different state with new employment.
Thing is, it was also dirt cheap. One application. I even did it for a few restaurants over the years and they never saw another one after that.
Go to a local drug store or market and pick up a bottle of boric acid. It is a fine ground powder used with water to clean babies eyes. Cheap; maybe a couple of bucks. Go to the grocery store and get a box of fine ground corn meal. Again, a super cheap product.
Mix them 50/50. Sprinkle small amounts all around the bottom edges at the walls in every room. Small enough amounts you can just leave it there. Do the same at the back edges of every drawer and cabinet and just leave it there. It is little more than light dust around the edges.
Cockroaches are attracted to it due to the cornmeal. when they crawl through it they get covered by the boric acid dust. Thing is, when they go back to their nests somewhere in the walls, they carry all that boric acid back to their own nests. They end up eating it as they clean themselves and so do all the others, including all the hatching newborns just as part of their daily routines.
Boric acid is not toxic. There is no danger for your own pets or babies who might come in contact with it. You can leave it in place for years so it will remain very effective. However, once those little critters ingest it, it tends to expand in their gut. It will become gassy inside them to the point they explode, instantly killing them. The same explosion happens to every one of them in the nest, including all their next generations of young. There are none left to come out into your living space. The job is done for [b]as long as you leave the stuff in place even if new critters come into your space. [/b]
Are you happy now?
