Boric Acid and Its Uses

The sight of a cockroach can run a shudder down your spine. Cockroaches infest our home, infect our food and they are an intolerable sight to look at. Often, it gets out of control to handle the cockroach situation. They multiply fast and you see them creeping in all nooks and corners of your house. To do the damage control, until professional cockroach pest control has been done, there is an easy solution on hand, and it is boric acid. Boric acid although is not harmful to human beings in nature, it can be fatal to cockroaches.

The boric acid has to be applied strategically in places where the cockroaches roam around or nest commonly. Although the cockroaches are the creatures from down under, they do keep groom themselves well. When they walk around on the boric acid, a few particles are bound to stick to the legs of these roaches and when they groom, they ingest the boric acid. Once the boric acid gets into their digestive system, it is fatal to them, and kill the cockroaches. Hence, it is an effective method until your professional help arrives. You can stall the cockroaches for at least three months with this method.

Boric acid is available in all pharmacies. You can either dust a thin layer of boric acid in all the places where you suspect the cockroach moves or you can prepare a thin solution of sugar and water dissolved in boric acid and fill it in a sprayer and spray to even those places which are not reachable by hand. The sweetness of the sugar will attract the cockroach towards the sprayed solution when it ingests, the boric acid starts acting and soon you will be rid of all the cockroaches in your home.

Remember this is just a temporary solution and is not an alternative for professional cockroach pest control. Also, do keep the boric acid away from pets and children.

Bed Bug Extermination – Why It Is Important?

• Sleep is a good chain that ties up health and our body together. Now-a-days life has become so busy following the clock all the time. We humans put our lives in earning our living sometimes without sleeping. We forget the fact that sleeping is a vital activity to improve memory and sharpen your attention. Who doesn’t want to enjoy the pleasure of sleeping??
• What when you decide to sleep full day, but bed bugs become the reason of your disturbance? What can you do? Bed bugs not only disturb your sleep, but also feed on your blood. They are very sharp at hiding at days and attacking at nights. They can be usually found at very close to host which is eventually you. They can be found in places like in luggage, inside your vehicle, among bedside clutters, in corner edged openings, in your pets’ fur or your room mat.
• Bed bugs are infectious, their bite can cause irritation of skin and if you scratch the bite it leads to secondary infection like swelling and bleeding. Once your bitten bed bug can live for a week on its feed. You can feel the itching sensation soon after they bite

Solutions to stay away from bed bugs bite:

• Before you go to bed check any sign of them.
• Vacuum your bed, clothes, corner edged gaps because baby bugs are very hard to be found.
• Check on the places regularly where your pets sleep.
• Use a variety of trapping methods to kill them.
• Several types of pesticides are available in the market for bed bug extermination which are totally safe for humans.
• Contact pest control services, they can do it in the best way more effectively.
• A bed bug sniffing dog can also be used to catch bed bugs.