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

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   Yet another reason to de-junk your home: Roaches like to hide in piles of cardboard, papers, and rags, says Benson. How To Tell If You Have Cockroaches Obviously, if you see one scuttling across ...

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. Rats, roaches, mold: The expensive cost of the most common ...

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   Harrowing experience. In general, the data shows that rats and mice are most common in U.S. homes, closely followed by cockroaches. Much less prevalent is mold, and even rarer are bedbugs. But ...

7. Insect repellent - Wikipedia

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   A test of various insect repellents by an independent consumer organization found that repellents containing DEET or icaridin are more effective than repellents with "natural" active ingredients. All the synthetics gave almost 100% repellency for the first 2 hours, where the natural repellent products were most effective for the first 30 to 60 ...

8. Depopulation of cockroaches in post-Soviet states - Wikipedia

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   Transitioning from antiquated roach-management methods such as egg yolk and boric acid to newer poisons and methods may have led to more effective depopulation. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 1 ] Usage of modern construction materials may also contribute to the phenomenon; the population of cockroaches might have been reduced due to their purported ...

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