Is mothballs useful for cockroaches?
Mothballs can prevent cockroaches, but after a long time, the effect will evaporate. Mothballs are smooth, colorless or white crystals with fragrance and floating in water. Natural mothballs used for insect prevention, moth prevention and mildew prevention are also called smelly beads. Because of the smell, it can drive away cockroaches, but it has no killing effect on cockroaches.
Hazards of cockroaches
1. Harmful to health
Cockroaches have bad habits of eating, spitting and excreting, and they also secrete smelly liquids. They can not only carry more than 40 pathogens such as Leprosy, Yersinia pestis and Shigella in their activities, but also are important vectors of intestinal diseases and parasitic diseases, and their secretions and feces contain many carcinogens. Often hidden in dark corners such as kitchens and bathrooms, it is not easy to be detected by people, which not only harms grain, oil, food, clothing, books and other storage items, but also spreads diseases and causes harm to people.
2. Damaged property
Cockroaches eat everything, and food at home may be contaminated by cockroaches, causing economic losses. In addition, cockroaches can easily enter electrical appliances, computers and other household appliances, bite the lines, or cause short circuits, resulting in unexpected failures. Nowadays, more and more families, especially kitchen appliances, are related to cockroaches, such as microwave ovens and induction cookers, which have caused taboo losses to families to some extent.
Tips for eliminating cockroaches
1, washing powder is an efficient drug for trapping and killing cockroaches, and its effect is even better than some chemical pesticides. The practice is to sprinkle washing powder in places where cockroaches may haunt, and eating washing powder will kill you.
2. Take a portion of borax, a portion of flour and a little sugar, mix them into balls the size of rice grains, and scatter them in the infested places. After eating, they will be poisoned to death.
3. The method of killing cockroaches with hot soapy water. Adding a bar of soap to 4 liters of hot water, dissolving it and spraying it directly on cockroaches can effectively kill cockroaches.
4. The method of removing cockroaches with soda water. Mix sugar and baking soda in half and put it in the place where cockroaches haunt. After about 3- 14 days, cockroaches will disappear. It is said that this is the most commonly used cockroach prevention formula in the United States.
5. The method of mopping the floor with boric acid is to prevent cockroaches. After dissolving a proper amount of boric acid in hot water, wipe the floor with a mop or rag. After drying, white boric acid crystals will penetrate into the cracks in the floor to prevent cockroaches and ants.