How to Protect Your Home Against Cockroaches?
Winter is dragging on and the cold and humidity seem endless? The same is true for certain pests that take advantage of the winter months to come and warm up in your home. Cockroaches and beetles could well decide to take up residence in your house…
What are the right reflexes to adopt to prevent their proliferation? How to get rid of them?
1 – WHITE VINEGAR
Simple and effective, spraying white vinegar on busy areas keeps cockroaches away from your home.
2 – USE SODIUM BICARBONATE AND SUGAR
Mix a glass of sugar with a glass of sodium bicarbonate. Pour the mixture into several plates that you will place near the walls in humid and warm rooms such as the bathroom or kitchen. The cockroaches will be attracted to the sugar but the bicarbonate will eventually dehydrate and destroy them.
3 – THE CUCUMBER
Arrange cucumber slices on plates. This vegetable is indeed a very good insect repellent.
4 – EUCALYPTUS ESSENTIAL OIL
Pour a few drops of eucalyptus essential oil onto newspaper. Place the newspaper in your kitchen cupboards. This trick will deter cockroaches from settling in your home.
5 – DIATOMACEOUS EARTH
Pour silica powder or diatomaceous earth against baseboards or on the floor where cockroaches are found.
Diatomaceous earth is a 100% natural brown or white powder composed of micro-algae shells several million years old which helps fight against insects and mainly crawling ones like cockroaches.
6 – BORIC ACID
Boric acid is another product you can use to exterminate and kill cockroaches!
Here’s how to prepare this anti-cockroach recipe:
- Mix boric acid with condensed milk and form small balls of dough.
- Let the balls of dough harden for an hour and place them in the different places visited by these insects.