Wednesday, January 13, 2010

How To Deal With Cockroach Infestation In Your Home

By Danis Keithly

Cockroaches are one of the most irksome insects that you can find in every corner of the world without an exception. They usually inhabit the dark and wet corners of a home and survive on all types of organic items. They spoil and infest all kinds of edible things and can also be bearers of dangerous diseases. Therefore, one needs to eliminate the cockroach population in a permanent and effective manner.

A lot of people opt for strong insecticides and sprays that turn out to be quite harmful for the human beings residing in the apartment as well. Hence, it is advisable to use natural methods of cockroach elimination than resorting to hazardous chemicals for doing so.

Your can start by keeping your sink clear and by cleaning your utensils immediately after having your meals, in addition to maintaining general cleanliness of your kitchen and the areas below your sink. As cockroaches like dark and humid places, the area in and around the kitchen sink offers them the perfect environment to multiply. You must make sure that you cover all your food items as well as other organic products, so as to ward off the cockroaches.

It is also critical to block all the gaps and holes, particularly the ones around your drainage and water pipes that provide the best points of entry to the cockroaches. You must also make sure that you deprive the cockroaches of a fertile breeding ground by keeping your sewers and the areas surrounding it dry and clean. If your residence is close to a garbage dumping area or an exposed drainage, you have to take steps to find a way for distancing from them, as these could be the prime causes behind repeated cockroach infestation in your home.

Finally, if you are not able to get rid of the cockroaches by natural ways, you must go for chemicals such as boric acid that are milder and less dangerous for humans than other stronger sprays and pesticides.

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