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2. How To Keep Roaches Away From Your House–Permanently - AOL

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   Like worrisome termites, cockroaches have a job to do, breaking down organic matter in the natural world. But even one cockroach isn’t acceptable indoors. But even one cockroach isn’t ...

3. Roach bait - Wikipedia

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   The insecticide-laden feces, fluids and eventual carcass, can contain sufficient residual pesticide to kill others in the same nesting site. As the roach staggers around for hours or even days, it infects other roaches in the nest, with toxicant transfer through feces, [1] which then go on to infect others. This secondary transmission occurs ...

4. List of pest-repelling plants - Wikipedia

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   repel roaches, ants, the Japanese beetle, ticks, silverfish, lice, fleas, bedbugs, and root-knot nematodes [2] Citronella grass: repels insects, may deter cats [5] Clovers: repel aphids and wireworms [3] Common lantana: repels mosquitoes [1] Coriander: repels aphids, Colorado potato beetle, and spider mites [3] Cosmos: repel the corn earworm ...

5. Boric acid - Wikipedia

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   This often allows a roach to go back to the nest where it soon dies. Cockroaches, being cannibalistic, eat others killed by contact or consumption of boric acid, consuming the powder trapped in the dead roach and killing them, too. [citation needed] Boric acid has also been widely used in the treatment of wood for protection against termites.

6. Here’s Why You Should Never Kill a House Centipede - AOL

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   They kill roaches, moths, flies, silverfish, and termites. Centipedes use the two legs right near their head, which has been modified to carry venom, and their other legs to scoop up the bug.

7. Pyrethroid - Wikipedia

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   A pyrethroid is an organic compound similar to the natural pyrethrins, which are produced by the flowers of pyrethrums (Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium and C. coccineum). Pyrethroids are used as commercial and household insecticides. [1] In household concentrations pyrethroids are generally harmless to humans. [1]