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Showing posts with label Roaches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roaches. Show all posts

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Good Bye Roaches

a few months back I wrote about roaches & my quest to take care of them. unfortunately every methode was met with a failure at some point. but first. flash back.
back in pk we had a great product. it promised to keep killing roaches for 6 months. in mine part of the world roaches are not as much of a big problem as they are here in usa. I blv its the way home are built over here. they are perfect for many species of life to co exist without us ever seeing them for years. unfortunately I strongly felt that capitalism in america & its greed has gone beyond limits. for example if a product is killing roaches for 6 months over there why cant they introduce it over here? well how else they will make you buy a bottle every month if the product works for 6 months? i was disappointed with the tag keeps killing for 12 months "on contact" seriously? how am I suppose to keep guard & spray to make this product work? I sprayed where roaches were hatching eggs and to my biggest surprise I found them back in exactly 7 days. enough was enough.
I tried boric acid and it works well. it literally takes care of them but white powdery stuff is suppose to sit on surfaces n it looks dusty.
I tried baking powder and sugar mixture but again you have to sprinkle it every where. I needed something else.
then came a tip from kashmir. peoples from kashmir used it in europe to combat roaches. I gave it a try and after yielding 99% decrease of roach sighting in just 3 days I am way too impressed.
its a mixutre of  raw eggs, boiled potatoes & boric acid.

all you have to do is boil a few potatoes depeding upon how much of an area you want to treat.
add raw eggs and 50gms of boric acid.
mix them well.
let it dry for a while or a day.
roll the mixture into small balls.
place these balls where ever you seen roaches or like me treat the whole house and hide them well

the trick is simple, raw eggs smell attract roaches they come and eat some of it along with boric acid. which acts and kills them so a chain reaction starts coz if they eat dead roaches they get the same acid to deal with. where we used to see atleast a few dozen quickly running under the cubboards or behind kitchen counters now I see none. oh no thats not exactly true I do see a few roaches but dead roaches. and the only 1% alive one I saw were young ones in our bathroom where I havent treated it yet fully.

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Invade of German & Brown Roaches

In newyork where ever I go I find either roaches or mice. I hate both. in my current apartement they are alot I think hunderds of them reside in. reason? well my room mate never bothered to take care of them but when I moved in I took them seriously cause they are nasty and they make you sick.
just last summer I used raid max black & it worked pretty fine. it kept killing them or at least I couldnt see them for a while. Now for this apartment I couldnt find the same product at walgreens.
so I bought raid max bug barrier which claims to keep killing german roaches for upto 12 months but either thats a fals claim or all left in my apartment are browns roaches.
after using the first bottle I saw a dramatic decline of roaches. but after 48 hours there were a few but they were the big ones or tiny ones seem like just hatched.
so i bought 2 more bottles and sprayed thoroughly but that only helped with on contact, later on you could see the queens/mothers the big ones venturing around. so I went and bought 2 boxes of old time moth balls. I placed them in my room and they seemed to work a little as I didnt see any afterwards. but still there are some.
so after deciding that enough toxic pestisides in home I should look for a natural way. being from sub continent I know there are a lot of natural stuff out there freely avaialabe to use to repell pests rather spend on harmfull pestisides. for example a tree called نیم "neem" is very good for termites and book worms.
anyway so I found this and I am going to give it a try.
first is boric acid which is suppose to kill them all as its toxic to roaches.
second is the mixture of baking powder & sugar with a nearby source of water which is going to create a gas trouble for the roach and eventually will kill 'em.
any other ideas or tips are welcome.
I will write an update about whether these method worked or not.

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