How to use borax for cockroaches

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If you locate a cockroach in your home, it is likely that there are more hidden among the furniture and walls of your home. Cockroaches are omnivorous and like to hide in dark, damp, narrow corners where they lay their eggs. It is important that locate the infestation zones Most likely, do a visual inspection of the nooks and crannies of wet areas like bathrooms, kitchens, garages, and pantries. Look behind furniture, shelves, pipes, behind the refrigerator or where there may be accumulated food.

Once you think you have located the place where the nest is, confirm the finding by causing a stimulus that makes the cockroaches scare and flee, since you may not see them with the naked eye. You can use a fan or a bright light, make sure to discover all the infestation points (there are usually several) before continuing with the process.

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Perform a thorough cleaning from your home to avoid leaving food scraps or stagnant water where roaches can feed and survive. Do not forget to clean the inside of the cabinets, behind the toilets, drains and other corners that could become their place of life and reproduction.

Once the whole place is clean and neat, you can start using borax as an insecticideYou can buy boric acid in drugstores and supermarkets at a very reasonable price. It is important that you store boric acid correctly, you must do it in a clean and dry container and label it so that no one can mistake it for table salt. Store in a cool, dry place to prevent large crystals from forming.

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Sprinkle infested areas with boric acid. It is not necessary that you leave pieces of food or lures, since the cockroaches will transport the product to their nests and other insects as if it were an infection. You can introduce boric acid or borax on the walls by removing the switch boxes and sprinkling a little product.

If you need to apply borax to kitchen work areas, such as countertops or sinks, wipe the area with a damp cloth before handling food on them.

Borax is very effective but it can be slower in its effects than other insecticides, you may need to repeat the operation several times to get rid of all the plague, but eventually you will.

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Another option is mix boric acid with sugar, for this you will need 100 g of boric acid and 100 g of icing sugar. You should mix them, always carefully, with gloves and in a ventilated environment, since boric acid is irritating, as well as place it in strategic places where cockroaches live.

We must be careful if we have pets or small children at home, since the ingestion of this product is highly dangerous, since it is a toxic agent. Label the baits well, alerting them to their content and avoid placing them in places accessible by animals and children. The poison can be placed in an empty matchbox, correctly labeled, in which you can make a small hole where the insects can fit, so you will be able to kill the cockroaches in a few days.

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Finally, we present you another combination for eliminate roaches with borax, it is about mixing the boric acid with the onion. You will need two tablespoons of boric acid, an onion, half a glass of wheat flour, water, and lids from unused cans.

Cut the onion into small pieces and put it in a jar, properly labeled, adding the rest of the ingredients until you get a paste. If it is very liquid, thicken it with more boric acid, if, on the contrary, it is excessively solid, add a little more water. Place the results in the cans and put them around the infestation areas. This natural, simple and inexpensive insecticide is very effective although it does not act immediately, you must wait for several cockroaches to move and ingest the poison and little by little they infest the other specimens.

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If in addition to this, you want to use other effective products to kill cockroaches and that are 100% natural, do not miss the ones that we show you in the article Home remedies to kill cockroaches.