Smita Pani: Re: [World Malayali Club] Suggestion required for cockroaches

Even boric powder mix with milk powder also gives good results, I do it in my room, u can see the cockroaches dance upside down and prays to God with their legs up.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Surendran V mangadan@gmail.com [worldmalayaliclub] <worldmalayaliclub@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Dear Friends,

Do someone have a remedy for Bed Bugs... Please advise.

Best regards,

Surendran.

On 26 March 2016 at 12:28, Jayakrishnan Adoorvalappil avjayan2001@yahoo.com [worldmalayaliclub] <worldmalayaliclub@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Mix equal quantity (say two table spoons) of boric acid powder (available in all medical stores in india) and wheat flour with little bit of sugar and water and make small balls. Keep it all around, in the kitchen and other areas and forget it. After a week, you will not find any cockroaches (the big one). This is my personal experience.

On Saturday, 26 March 2016 6:11 AM, "Shaheem fathe283@yahoo.co.in [worldmalayaliclub]" <worldmalayaliclub@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Dear members Good day to you all Please suggest me any home remedies to get rid of cockroaches Thanks in advance
Shaheem

see the answer below: -wmc
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BORIC ACID THE BEST NATURAL COCKROACH KILLER
Boric acid is a naturally occurring product that can be mass produced from borax. Boric acid is very effective in killing small insects such as cockroaches. So the game plan to kill the cockroaches that are infesting your home is a three pronged process. The first is to clean the house. Make sure no food particles are left out for the roaches to feed on. That means no dirty dishes in the sink. The second, cockroaches can't live without water. No standing water anywhere. Make sure all the pipes have no leaks and are insulated. The third, use the boric acid powder.
How do you use Boric Acid?
Boric Acid is very easy to use. However people who are inexperienced have the wrong idea on how to use it. Most people think that the way to use it is to lay it down in thick piles. Unfortunately it's not the way to use it. Think of thick piles of boric acid like snow drifts. Cockroaches will avoid them and move around the piles like a human would avoid a snow drift.
The way to properly use boric acid is to lay down a light layer of it barely perceptible to the human eye. To do that you can use the bottle that the boric acid came in or you can buy a bellows that was made to make it easy.
Lets talk about how we can do it without the bellows and just use the bottle the boric acid came in. Although it's been proven that boric acid is no more toxic than table salt, you'll need a pair of cleaning gloves or latex gloves to protect your hands. You'll also need a few pennies. The pennies are for the bottle, you'll open then bottle and drop them in. They'll help stir up the boric acid when you shake the bottle.
Most bottles come with a blocked nozzle so you'll need to cut the tip off to open it up. Cut the very first one; you'll only need a small opening to put out the powder. Unscrew the top and drop in the pennies and place the top back on. Make sure you have your gloves on because now you're ready to lay down powder and kick some cockroach butt.
Most of the time the bottle is huge and has a lot of air space in it. That's a good thing. Here's how to lay down a fine layer of powder. You're going to put a finger on the opening of the bottle and give the bottle a couple of quick shakes. and tap the bottle on its bottom to shake all the excess to the bottom. Now there should be a fine mist of powder floating around inside the bottle. Take your finger off the opening and squeeze out a fine mist of powder on to the surface you're treating. That's all you need. Otherwise it will be too heavy to adhere to the cuticles of the cockroach. You'll be happy to know that bulbs and bellows are used much in the same way but they are designed to help place a fine layer of powder in cracks and crevices and I'll add in more later on how to use them.
What does it do to cockroaches?
Now when the cockroach walks over the treated area the positive charge of the boric acid will be attracted to the cockroach and stick to its body. The damage the powder does to the cockroach is two fold. The nature of boric acid is that it's a mineral and crystalline. So it will damage the exoskeleton of the cockroach. The other way is that a cockroach although a dirty creature that harbors pathogens, likes to keep itself clean. In doing so, it will ingest the boric acid and dehydrate as a result. Once a roach comes in contact with the powder it will die in about 72 hours. Nymphs or juveniles usually die in 24 to 48 hours. Cockroaches exposed to boric acid will exhibit behavior that is out of the ordinary for a roach. They will come out in the daylight or lighted areas. They will walk out in to the middle of a floor rather than along the edge of the room. Cockroaches like to have a wall touching their body at all times, it makes them feel secure and its even better if they're in between something.
Where do you treat for cockroaches?
Cockroaches like to be near their food. So their harborage is usually located within five feet of any source of water and nutrition. If you've seen a few around a certain area there's sure to be a harborage that they use near by. Cockroaches do congregate and they do leave clues to other roaches as to where to find food. If you start seeing roaches during the day and you haven't treated yet you have a serious infestation. Places to start treatment are cracks and crevices where the cupboards meet the wall. Those should be sealed with silicon or caulk. If you have pipes that go through the wall they could be using the space inside the wall, if you can seal up that area with expandable canned foam. Check behind and underneath the refrigerator. Place powder behind appliances that have been permanently installed such as your dish washer and trash compactors.
Your bathroom believe it or not is also a prime area for cockroaches. Treat the cracks and crevices there as well. Seal them up with caulk or silicon. Make sure the pipes have no leaks. We don't want to give them water. Make sure that the hot can cold water pipes are insulated so as to not form condensation. Make sure you cap your toothpaste, they'll eat it. Keep the sink clean of hair from shaving. Treat the back walls and the wells of the drawers.
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So. Here's a recipe on how to make roach baits with boric acid.
First you'll need to get a cheap bowl. Either from the dollar store or some second hand store. Once you put the boric acid in that bowl it can never be used for anything else other than making the bait. It can't be and shouldn't be used for anything for human, or animal consumption. So please don't use it to feed kitty or fido when you're done. Put it away for when you make another batch and mark it so nobody else mistakenly uses it. While boric acid has less toxicity than table salt, it's still not table salt.
We'll do the fun part first. Cooking bacon! We need the grease from cooking it for the bait. Cockroaches go crazy for it. Not much instructions needed here. Cook it up, drain the grease to another container. One package of bacon should be enough.
Now that you have the bacon drippings you need:
1 Cup Borax
1/2 Cup Flour (doesn't matter if it's white or wheat)
1/8 Cup Powdered Sugar (optional)
1/8 Cup Bacon Drippings (Bacon Grease)
Now just combine all four of those ingredients in the bowl and add water till it makes a soft dough. Not too much, you don't want it super wet, but you don't want it dry either. Once you have it like a slightly wet playdough consistency you can either form balls with it or you can use some tinfoil and a soda bottle cap to form pills. You might want to wear gloves while handling the bait.
Place the bait in areas where you've seen roaches. Once every two or three days, check on them and spray them with water to keep them moist so the roaches smell them. Just a word to to the wise. This is not an instant kill solution. Roaches have to ingest it. Once ingested it'll take anywhere from 24 to 72 hours kill it. Now, go get them.