Nontoxic pest control Tips for getting rid of cockroaches in your home

Something Naturally beautiful and gross altogether to me is called Pest. According to Australian govt department of health and ageing "A pest is any animal or plant which has a harmful effect on humans, their food or their living conditions. Pests include animals which
carry disease-causing micro-organisms and parasites.

 For example, mosquitoes which carry Ross River virus and Murray Valley encephalitis.
For example, termites can cause considerable damage to timber in buildings. Another example, bed bugs (so called because they often bite people in their beds) are very difficult to control. Their bites can cause great irritation to those bitten.......we will talk more about bed bugs later.


Today i will be talking about one of the most common pest called Cockroach.
Cockroach is a pest, there are different species of cockroaches 

and they carry different kinds of bacteria, parasitic worms and other human pathogens. As they crawl through decaying matter, garbage or sewage--dirty ewww stuff, they pick up harmful germs on the spine of their legs and body and then carry it onto food surfaces and into our left over dinner pots or dishes. It's easy to find a cockroach in a home that maintains the habit of leaving dirty dishes around; cockroaches will multiple and breed where ever they see favorable and the germs cockroach carry with them stay protected and infective for many weeks.  Cockroach do carry allergens that cause allergic reactions and asthma in children. These allergens will build up in deposits of droppings-- secretions, empty cast skins and dead bodies of roaches.

 If you're living in an area infested by cockroaches or in an older housing prone to this pest i would like to share some nontoxic cockroach exterminator and prevention tips.

 

First begin by

• Cleaning out your home surroundings---cabinet, back of refrigerator, kitchen sinks, insides of your oven where ever you see grease and food is stuck regularly. Make sure there are no left over food and stagnant mold water laying around the sink or cabinet because small piece of food or damp places will attract pest like cockroach. Clean out counter, all food dishes and keep them dry.
• Make sure snack wrapping aren't laying around the house and cover your garbage/trash cans with a lid always.
• Fix the leaky kitchen pipes, loose wall paper, all crack and crevices where they tend to go.
• De-clutter your magazine rack and all areas of your home; the more simple and airy-clean you keep your home, the less pest it will attract.
• Trim any foliage around the windows of your house and do get rid of those dampy log of woods just laying around the yard or fence.
• If you leave out in the country, the best nontoxic cockroach killer will be to get yourself a chicken or a wall gecko but not both at the same time because chicken will kill the gecko. Chickens and Wall Gecko love to chase and eat cockroaches so they will help you reduce their number. If you have cats this won't be an ideal solution for you, because cats will chase and kill your gecko and chicken for dinner.
• I would grow a catnip plant around the house because Catnip contains a natural chemical nepetacone which is a natural repellant to cockroaches.
• Bay leaves, powdered cayenne pepper, dried or fresh cucumber peels also helps to repel cockroaches (i would use a dried peel to avoid attracting other pest like vegetable/fruit fly.
• Baking soda mixed with powdered sugar and bay leaves helps to repel cockroaches.
• Beer or laundry detergent mixed with water will kill cockroaches if you find them in your bathroom tub.
• A roach bait trap is also a good idea, especially the once that have glue inside it because the glue will clamp their legs once they crawl into it.

Chemical treatment for cockroach

• Powdered Boric acid is poisonous to humans and other domestic pets but cockroaches dislike it and where ever you spray this---cockroaches will not go there and if it does crawl over the Boric acid, it will die.

• Dusting Dri-die/Drione also known as Silica Gel (aluminum silicate) in area where roaches may invade your home from is helpful because this chemical substance will scratch their protective coating away and kill them. Although this is a nontoxic chemical substance, i still do suggest you take precaution like wearing a hand glove before applying the solution. I don't recommend artificial silica gel because it can cause pulmonary problems to pets and human.

• I have also tried DE dust (Diatomaceous Earth Food Grade) on cockroaches, it didn't work too well for killing them but it did repel them. DE dust is best for preventing and exterminating bed bugs and slugs but it doesn't seem fit for killing the type of cockroach i tried it on.
• If you want to get rid of cockroaches without the stinky garlic or onion smell and without attracting fruit fly leaving banana in a cover covered with Vaseline try the new improvised As seen on Tv pest cure recipe below.

pound of borax
ounces of powdered sugar
1/2 cup of coffee grounds
Salt (sodium chloride)
Mix it all together in a bottle with a lid and then apply it to those areas of the house where cockroaches breed.

Clean and Treat your home often using any one of the tips above. Remember to remove your children and all pets such as birds, cats, fish and dogs from the premises when treating the home with any kind of pesticide or insecticide that isn't suitable for pet or humans. Our goal is preventive extermination -------meaning not to kill every roach in nature but to repel them away from our own environment---homes.  In my experience Borax will repel little cockroaches from counter tops.