How to seize rid of roaches (there's a take into custody...)? i need to bring rid of them but here are the...
i need to bring rid of them but here are the problems, one is that we live in an apartment and two is that i hold a 7 month old child and a 5 year old so it cant be anything the newborn can get to. please give a hand, for some reason i've simply seen them surrounded by my son's bathroom. it's clean and in attendance is never water standing. i dont know why they gather together there. once here was one floating contained by the commode and today there is a inert one in the tub. i know they are other places we havent see them yet but they maintain coming in his bathroom. i surmise i'm going to throw up. yuck, please help this is so disgusting.
Answers: You can use laundry borax, or boric bitter to safely eliminate roaches and many other bugs. It can be sprinkled surrounded by corners, along baseboards, on and under carpet, and it is safe to use around children and pets. More specifics can be found if you do a google query. I've used this many times and it works ably. Borax con be found at any store's laundry department. Boric acid can be found at hardware stores. This is a unprocessed poison for chewing insects, but not for people and pets. It can be mixed near sugar or cornstarch or anything the bugs like to munch through.
Another relatively safe product is "Diatomaceous Earth" which can be found at hardware stores and garden centers. Do not use the type made for swimming pool filter. Try not to breath too much dust. It's not a poison, but it can irritate your lungs. It kills the bugs by puncturing their skin surrounded by their joints and they dry out surrounded by a day or so.
I used roach motels when I lived within Florida (roaches check in, but they don't check out). They hold like a flypaper sticky surface inside the box and the scent attracts the roaches. But, it's not toxic. They totter in and attain stuck on the flypaper. When the roach motel is full, you throw it out.