How to poison cockroaches with boric acid?

Now there are many popular methods of combating cockroaches, but boric acid remains the most effective and widespread exterminator of these insects. From this review you will learn how to poison cockroaches with boric acid, all the properties of this tool, its pros and cons, methods of application and warnings.

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Chemical and physical properties

Before using a remedy for cockroaches with boric acid, it is not superfluous to learn a little about the properties of the active substance and the principle of its action.

Types of Poisons:

1. Boric acid is small white grains that melt at a temperature of 170 ° C, while gradually changing their chemical composition. It has no smell and taste.
2. Borax is another equally effective option. The substance of borax is very common in nature, to put it succinctly - it is a salt of boric acid. This substance is no less dangerous for insects and can also be used in solutions and home-made poisons.
3. Boric alcohol is a 70% solution of boron powder in ethyl alcohol. Also widely used in repelling various types of insects. But there is a nuance - an alcoholic solution is much less effective than other types of this active substance, because the smell of alcohol scares off cockroaches and they are less “conducted” for this poison.

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Hazard level

Despite the fact that this poison is very detrimental to insects, it is not dangerous for pets and people. The powder is even used as an antiseptic, and earlier it was poured onto wounds in its pure form. Sometimes such actions led to a slightly skin reaction - allergies, but this is the only danger.

No matter how destructive the effect of the product on insects, it should not cause any harm to the child or animal, who accidentally finds a ball or just pure powder sprinkled in its pure form. Boron acid in this case is the best option.

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How effective is boric acid?

A cockroach remedy with such a component is the strongest poison for insects. It does not just kill them, but leads to deadly torment.

After the active substance has entered the bloodstream, it penetrates the nerve cells of the insect and is very irritating to them. If the pest ate a considerable amount of poison, this leads to instant paralysis and suffocation.

Important! To kill 1 pest, 2-4 mg of powder is enough, that is, a pack of 10 g is enough to kill thousands of individuals of this type of insect.

But in fact, it is worth buying with a margin, since a considerable amount of it is wasted.

Important! Some individuals become addicted to the active substance of such hell, but in most cases you can achieve a good result if you poison cockroaches with boric acid.

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Where and how much to get the powder?

Boric acid is not a scarce drug, so you can buy it both in a regular pharmacy and on the Internet. The price, compared with other means of combating cockroaches, is low.

Important! In a bag, most often 10 g of powder, for processing the average area of ​​the room you will need about 100 g of the product.

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Application methods

A remedy for cockroaches with boric acid should be useful in controlling insects.Therefore, it is worth placing the bait so that it attracts the attention of insects as much as possible, or simply litter it with places of special activity of pests - toilet bowl, sink, bathtub. It is these places that are considered to be favorite for such pests, since here is the most accessible watering place.

Important! There is one method for finding out exactly where the insect shelters are. During the evening, go into the kitchen several times and be sure to turn on the light. Cockroaches, frightened by light radiation, will simply scatter along their “minks”. When you find out where they are in your apartment, it will be much easier to poison them.

If you are radically and categorically disposed to treat the apartment with just such means, here are a few effective recipes for different baits:

• Raw egg yolk and 50 g of boric acid. Mix all this thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
• Powdered sugar, flour, water and a toxic substance. Take approximately the same amount of each ingredient. Again, mix everything and get a white pulp.
• We mix 200 g of acid, 60 g of starch, the same amount of powdered sugar, 25 g of vanilla sugar and water, and we get a thick and sugar mixture.
• The boiled potatoes and boiled egg are mixed and a tablespoon of the poison is added. The perfect bait is ready.

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If we consider in general all the means of combating cockroaches, then this acid is not the most effective of them. Gels, traps and aerosols will bring much more benefit, but they cost a lot. If in your house there are only a couple of such annoying pests, then naturally, fight with folk methods. But if the situation is serious, then you should not even try it - in general, you urgently need to contact the specialists of the SES service. We hope you do not need such drastic measures and a cockroach remedy with boric acid will give its result.