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What's the best natural cockroach repellent? ?

I live in Hawaii so I know cockroaches are expected, but they just won't leave my apartment! I keep things clean and I've sprinkled boric acid in all the corners but they're still around. I've also tried using dried bay leaves, but nothing seems to work. I don't want to use anything toxic, any ideas???

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  • Kaye
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Well, it's very difficult to starve a cockroach out, you can never get your apartment clean enough to send them packing for greener pastures.

    A captured roach in a jar can live on a tiny spot of oil for as much as a month if it has air. Look around your clean apartment for "oil" sources for the little pests and you'll soon see sources everywhere! They are abundant in the very cleaning products you use to keep things clean.

    That bar of soap in the soap dish contains oils. That bottle of liquid dish soap by the kitchen sink (with that bit of half dried soap on the tip) has oil in it. Your bottle of hand lotion with the bit of lotion in the pump dispenser tip has oils. your furniture polish and floor wax was oils. The tiniest speck of soap scum left in your drains, sink, bath tub, shower, bath brush, sponge, etc. contains oils. Your leather goods are treated with oils, Roaches aren't picky...they are surviors...they feed on many many things. They also have the ability to walk up walls and across ceilings, some can even fly short distances, so they can certainly walk around boric acid and bay leaves.

    The best repellient I have found is ye ole fly swatter or a shoe. Squish.

  • 1 decade ago

    Check out these Roach Killers... they're electric cockroach traps that attract the cockroaches then ZAP them! Then you just empty them into the trash. You just plug it in to an outlet in the kitchen and leave it up against the wall...

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    once you get there, see in case you are able to p.c.. up a can of ''Raid''....those issues is amazing, and in case you're making an attempt to spray the room thoroughly, such as below beds and furniture etc, and close all doors and domicile windows each and every time you leave the room, you will locate those issues fairly plenty kills off each and everything!! you would be able to additionally be waiting to p.c.. up a plug-in repellant..you need to locate this in maximum bigger branches of Boot, or the diverse better DIY storess.

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