If black cockroaches started up in the apartment ...

If black cockroaches in the neighbors' apartment feel like full-fledged owners, if they are firmly established in the garbage chute, then very soon they will put the whole house on their ears, including your home.

Is it possible to hope that your cleanliness will prevent insects from taking root in your living space? Yes, impeccable cleanliness in the house, lack of access to food and keeping plumbing in perfect condition are serious “negative” arguments for a black cockroach. It is unlikely that he will want to settle in such a room for a long time, but he will definitely drop in to inquire if there are unwashed dishes left in the kitchen.

As soon as the residents make a mistake only once, the insects will return in their tracks and bring their brethren. Therefore, you should meet them fully armed.

And for starters, let's take a closer look at black cockroaches, and then see how you can get rid of them if they come into the house.

Who is more dangerous: a black cockroach or a red one?

In Russian apartments, two types of domestic cockroaches are most often found: black and red. But they rarely get along with each other. They are heated by the same walls, they claim the same power source.All this breeds competition.

And it seems that the Prussian is the winner in the interspecific struggle.

The slightly careless attitude of the females of the black cockroach to their offspring leads to the fact that some of the eggs left unattended are eaten by representatives of any kind of cockroaches (both red and black). For these insects, cannibalism is a completely natural phenomenon.

In addition, while the black cockroach reaches puberty, during this time more than one generation of Prussians manages to grow and breed. Therefore, the number of black cockroaches is growing more slowly than red ones.

So, maybe there is no need to be afraid of their appearance? However, large, reaching a length of three centimeters, black cockroaches, slightly gleaming with a chitinous shell, emitting an unpleasant odor and capable of developing incredible speed, are still an unnatural phenomenon for a modern apartment.

Finding such an unpleasant giant working in the kitchen, exploring the bath or (oh, horror!) Crawling into bed, you will involuntarily shudder and remember Chukovsky's "Cockroach".

There is a quality that equates a black cockroach with a red cockroach: the neighborhood with any of them is extremely undesirable for a person, this living creature pollutes human homes with waste products, disables electrical wiring and household appliances.

The presence in the apartment of black cockroaches that came from sewers, basements, garbage containers and carrying an incredible amount of pathogens on their bodies is a sign of the poor sanitary condition of the premises and a real threat to health. Inquisitive children are especially vulnerable to infection.

Methods of dealing with black cockroaches

People are not accustomed to risk the most expensive.Since it became known to man that these synanthropic insects are not only unsympathetic, but also extremely harmful, he began to get rid of black cockroaches with special zeal. And he succeeded.

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It is safe to say that getting rid of insects is a completely feasible task.

Consider the main methods of dealing with black cockroaches, which are being improved day by day.

• Mechanical extermination. The first weapon against cockroaches, perhaps, is slippers. He is able to destroy one gaping individual, but is absolutely ineffective in the mass invasion of cockroaches.
• Thermal exposure is a way to get rid of black domestic cockroaches, which has come down to us from time immemorial. It consists in freezing the building. For residents of modern high-rise buildings with central heating, this method is not technically feasible.
• Repellents - means that do not kill, but only repel cockroaches.Someone noticed that black cockroaches can not stand some strong smells. Almost every housewife who has experience in dealing with harmful insects has her favorite remedy in her arsenal that gets rid of the invasion of black cockroaches: bay leaves, rye harvested during the flowering period, elder flowers or fragrant pyrethrum.
  The use of preparations of natural origin impresses with its safety. Unfortunately, either cockroaches eventually forgot how to distinguish smells, or they just got used to them, but you can often find them crawling over bouquets prepared for them.
• Traps. Since it is difficult to drive a cockroach out of the house, it was decided to overcome it with cunning. To attract cockroach attention, of course, food products are used. An insect will never refuse a treat lying in a conspicuous place.
  This is where his trouble hits. Human fantasy knows no bounds. Putting a delicacy in a glass jar and lubricating its walls with oil, you can be sure that black cockroaches will not get out after such a nice meal. The same effect is achieved if, on the way to the bait, a sticky mass is smeared, to which the insect will adhere firmly.
  Modern devices for catching insects are even more intricate. If a cockroach is tempted to take the bait, it will be killed by an electrical discharge and even disinfected by the same electricity. And this method of dealing with black cockroaches has a drawback: first, the insect must be lured into a trap
• Insecticides are products of the chemical industry that act directly on the body of an insect, destroying it. This is a huge group of substances, different in structure and mechanism of action.It is these drugs that can help get rid of cockroaches when all of the above is powerless. However, insects amaze everyone with their vitality and ability to survive even after eating poison.
  In some cases, this phenomenon has an explanation: if a poisoned cockroach finds even a drop of water, gets drunk, then the effect of many insecticides is neutralized or weakened. Manufacturers offer products for getting rid of black and red cockroaches in a variety of forms - gels, crayons, aerosols, powders. Special care must be taken when using many insecticides, as they are toxic to humans and pets.
  But there is a remedy that has won the special sympathy of the population. This is boric acid - a long-used, cheap, relatively safe for humans and to this day effective insecticide in the fight against black cockroaches.

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Strike a control blow

The active resistance of people, whether it was old-fashioned traps or cutting-edge insecticides, had their effect, they managed to get rid of the big black cockroaches. No one rustles in the trash can, no one hides through the cracks when the lights come on in the kitchen.

Can this be considered a final victory? I think no. As practice shows, residents of multi-storey buildings, who often do not know each other either by name or in person, make a fatal mistake when trying to remove black cockroaches without the support of their neighbors.Insects tend to migrate from apartment to apartment, the appearance of previously absent cockroaches in the kitchen can mean only one thing: one of the neighbors declared another war on them.

It would be right to join forces by processing all the apartments at the same time and inflict a control strike on the main shelters of black cockroaches - damp basements, garbage chutes. It is more reasonable to entrust such an event to specialists in matters of pest control. Only then can we hope that black cockroaches will not appear in the apartment for a very long time, and maybe never.

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