Yesterday (3/9/10) a cockroach was scurrying around our bedroom and my husband just came out of the shower and wanted to wear his pants when he saw a big ugly brown spot “staining” his pants. It is of no stain but a cockroach. Yeah, we are being invaded by a cockroach in the middle of the night. Of course my husband calmly and carefully told me what it was because he is more phobia of the fact that I screamed at the sight of a cockroach than the cockroach itself.
And so we have spent, I think half an hour to 45 minutes, moving things around the bedroom to find the cockroach after my husband whack his pants to “shoo” off the cockroach.
Some of you may be thinking of letting it go and catch it some other day. But for us either we catch it or we don’t sleep for the night. Why? Because it may come crawling at your face when you sleep or crawl around your body or have a good time on your food, The worst is if you regularly sleep with your mouth open, god knows whether the cockroach will fancy the “cave” in your mouth! Ewww!
Getting Rid of Cockroaches
We have tried the best environment friendly method to prevent cockroaches and that is to mix 1 teaspoon of brown sugar with 1 teaspoon of soda bicarbonate and place them in places where they will be around. A few drops of water in a saucepan are also placed beside the mixture. It is known that this mixture will cause a lot of gas in cockroaches and when they drink the water, they will get bloated, explode and die. So far I don’t remember any cockroaches come to visit after we use the method. There were only once a few months ago and then another one that we encountered yesterday. I think maybe the mixture had expired already because we are suppose to change to a fresh one every month. Maybe the environment is too humid or for some other reason in which I don’t know.
So, yesterday we had no choice but to use a toxic spray to get rid of the cockroaches.
I have done a few searches around and found that in order to avoid cockroaches:
1) We have to keep our house clean
2) Cockroaches love cardboard boxes and newspapers. Good for breeding. So if you want to avoid them, stay away from having cardboard boxes around the house or best to keep them in a cupboard where they can’t get in.
3) They love messy places. Better keep the house tidy.
Environment friendly products:
1) A mixture of soda bicarbonate and sugar as what I have mentioned just now.
2) Liquid enzymes. This I have read from newspaper. You can make your own.
3) Install floor grating to prevent them from coming out from the drain.
4) Lemongrass/ “serai” products which is available in the market.
5) Cockroach trap.
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