How Do Cockroaches Get In, and What Should You Do If Your Home Is Overrun with Them?

Because of their strong vitality, cockroaches are also called “Xiaoqiang” (Little Strong). They are especially annoying because they carry all kinds of bacteria and often crawl onto food in the home. Especially when summer comes, some people's homes are overrun with cockroaches, which people find utterly disgusting. So how do annoying cockroaches get in? What should you do if there are too many at home?

1. How do annoying cockroaches get in?

Generally, cockroaches like to live in warm, damp places with plenty of food and many cracks and crevices, and most of our homes satisfy almost all the conditions cockroaches need to survive, so they are very common in our homes. But in fact, cockroaches are not originally present in the home; many get in from outside through all sorts of routes, such as gaps around doors and windows, drains, drainage pipes and holes in walls. Sometimes they are even brought home accidentally when shopping outside. Moreover, cockroaches can reproduce both sexually and asexually, and their reproductive capacity is astonishing. A single female cockroach can produce nearly ten thousand offspring in a year, and at most even as many as one hundred thousand, and many female cockroaches can keep laying eggs continuously after mating just once, without needing to mate again.

2. What should you do if there are too many cockroaches at home?

1. Insecticide

The simplest, most direct method is to go to the store and buy a bottle of insecticide, then spray it in places where there are cockroaches, or spray it directly on cockroaches when you see them. However, note that insecticide is, after all, a toxic agent and cannot be ingested in large amounts, so when spraying, do not spray it in places where pets frequently go in and out or where there is a lot of foot traffic, to avoid the risk of killing pets or causing allergies or even poisoning in people.

2. Soapy water

In fact, there is also a little trick that many people may not know: ordinary soapy water used at home can also kill cockroaches. The reason is that a cockroach's respiratory system is on its abdomen, and if soapy water is sprayed onto a cockroach, it can form a thin film that covers the abdomen and suffocates the cockroach, thus achieving the effect of killing it. It is a sterile, harmless, green and environmentally friendly method.

3. Concentrate

Many people may not have heard of concentrate. It is actually a chemical agent that can directly poison cockroaches to death. Specifically, you can apply the concentrate in places where cockroaches like to appear, or if you are not sure where they like to appear and there are especially many cockroaches at home, you can also prepare some food, apply it on the food, attract the cockroaches to come and eat it, and then poison and kill them.

4. Make bait

Making bait is actually a very commonly used method for killing cockroaches. You can first make some food to attract cockroaches to eat and then poison them. Specifically, you can mix boric acid powder, flour and granulated sugar evenly, then place it in places where cockroaches often appear. Generally, after cockroaches smell it, they will come and eat the bait and then be poisoned to death. This is a method that lets cockroaches take the bait on their own and eliminates them.

5. Keep the home clean and tidy

In fact, no matter what method you use, there is one method that is the most fundamental and most important: do not create a favorable living environment for them. Since cockroaches like to live in damp places with plenty of food, we should usually clean the home thoroughly and pay attention to hygiene and tidiness, do more thorough cleanups at home, and after meals deal with leftovers and food and put them away properly. In this way, cockroaches will not be able to survive and will leave, and there will not be so many cockroaches at home.

Summary: The above is an introduction to how cockroaches get in and what to do if there are too many cockroaches at home. I hope it is helpful to friends who need it!