Cockroaches Gone! Easy, Natural and Non-Toxic.
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Information on Cockroaches and Palmetto Bugs
I don’t know about you, but I don’t really care to learn a lot about these yucky creatures, but if you are interested here is an informative website on cockroaches. The only thing you need to know is that cockroaches love carbohydrates, especially sugar.
Pesticides Are No Good
If you have children or pet, you don’t want poisonous pesticides lying around. And let’s face it, the spray insecticides really stink!
Getting Rid of Cockroaches Easily, Naturally and without Toxic Chemicals.
There are many ways to rid your home or business of these pesky creatures. More than a few are natural and non-toxic, but the easiest one is the one I will profile here. Before you do this it will be worth your while to seal up any places where cockroaches can get into your building. And also remove all sources of food.
COCKROACH ELIMINATION FORMULA:
- Mix 50% Sugar and 50% Baking Soda, such as Arm & Hammer.
- Put into little containers that they can easily get into. An example is a small plastic container with a hole cut in the side. Or you can even use a plate.
- Place the containers where ever the cockroaches like to live.
The reason why this works is because roaches have an acid stomach and the baking soda blasts their pH level, thus blasting them. Because they can’t resist sugar, they will gobble this stuff up.
You will notice a drop in sightings of cockroaches within 3-4 days and within 2 weeks they will be all gone. And here’s the bonus: since cockroaches are cannibals, the remaining ones will eat the dead ones so there’s virtually no cleanup. Sound too good to be true? Well it’s not. It works! Good luck!
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Purple Woman | Apr 26, 2007 | Reply
Gee. I wish I had known about this when I lived in Houston, Texas!
troy | Apr 26, 2007 | Reply
good tip ,I need to try it. goes into my bookmarks.
agentsully | Apr 26, 2007 | Reply
Purple Woman and Troy,
Thanks for the comments!
It really does work!
K-drama Addict | May 18, 2007 | Reply
I definitely need to try this!!! I hate flying cockroaches and other pests and this is environment friendly cockroach-killing way. ^_^
AgentSully | May 18, 2007 | Reply
K-drama- It works!
Ant | Jul 16, 2008 | Reply
I’m the only one in my apartment building that isn’t drowning in these things. The absolute most important thing you can do is seal up every hole, crack and crevice. If they can’t get in- they won’t be in. If its really bad, you can also weather strip your doors.
Then, keep everything clean and all your food sealed. If there’s nothing to eat, they won’t have reason to enter your apartment. I also keep my dishes in sealed plastic containers so that they can’t walk over them and leave pathogens.
However, once in a while something WILL get in- so you give it something to eat- roach motels. How sinister am I?
Then, you throw boric acid around where it can’t hurt you and baking soda in areas where the boric acid would hurt you.
There’s no reason why such a comprehensive plan won’t work.
agentsully | Jul 17, 2008 | Reply
@Ant - yep, that will work. Congrats that you are roach-free!
donna | Aug 4, 2008 | Reply
We tried this and we still have roaches up the gazoo!
agentsully | Aug 12, 2008 | Reply
@Donna - yikes! My guess is that maybe you need to seal up holes where new ones are getting in. I wish you the best of luck!
aqua moon | Dec 1, 2008 | Reply
after the kids left richmans parm. cheese shaker on the counter they go in can’t get out. will be buying lots of it for the house use one half opened container. i am putting
the other half in another spice shaker plastic
rinced and dryed. tried othre cheese but not as good.
Lawn Pest Control | Dec 27, 2008 | Reply
Boric acid works too and the roaches with the powder stuck to their legs will bring the acid back to the nests. The offspring will unknowingly eat them and get paralyzed and die. The thought one roach eating another dead roach is really disgusting though…