War of the Roaches
It took me a while to work out that I had uninvited guests living in my space, they left their calling cards but hadn’t been bold enough to introduced themselves. I had noticed marks on my sheets and for months I couldn’t work out where they had come from, and were not easy to wash out. Then sometime last winter I started seeing them one at a time in the kitchen… damn cockroaches. I know everyone has some, but I really do not like sharing my space with them.
Photo by Picas Joe
Changing their environment
As with all things unwanted, from parasites to habits, create an uncomfortable environment and reassess.
I took all of the linen out of the hotwater cupboard and started to wash it all and noticed some small, rectangular shaped, dark things on top of the hotwater tank… roach droppings. According to google, they are smaller and more uniform shape than mouse droppings. Now how to get rid of roaches without harsh chemicals or anything that would do me harm – here’s what I tried…
- Clean up any residual food so roaches have a poor dining experience.
- Baking soda and sugar or honey mixed 50/50 together on a jar lid on the bottom shelf of the hotwater cupboard. Safe for kids and pets. Roaches like the sweet, but not the baking soda which kills by mixing with the stomach acid, creates carbon dioxide which expands and they die. Every now and then I would open the hotwater cupboard to try catch one off guard and see if it was working, but it wasn’t, I could see a head poking up between the boards or sitting on top. They won that round.
- I decided to make their environment more uncomfortable so I sprinkled diatomaceous earth on the hotwater cupboard shelves and they really don’t like it. Diatomaceous earth kills cockroaches by damaging their exoskeletons and causing dehydration, making it an effective and eco-friendly alternative to chemical insecticides. It is safe for kids and pets but can take a week for roaches to die. To be really effective, it would mean sprinkling it everywhere which is not really what I wanted. Like anyone with an inhospitable environment they moved… into the bathroom.
- Next on the list was dried bayleaves – kind to kids and animals if eaten, unlike some other choices. They also apparently don’t like citrus, peppermint, eucalyptus, lavender, citronella, catnip, mint, pine, garlic or cedar wood oils to name a few. For some reason I never tried any other of smelly options. A pattern was emerging of an absence of activity after every new thing I tried, then they would be back for the next challenge. By this stage I have quite a good kill rate and not too many got away, my wand of doom was a broomstick or anything with a flat surface. God knows what the neighbours thought I was doing in the middle of the night. I was keeping a mental tally of how big they were, what colour and if I was winning this war. I also had a bit of respect for their tenacity. However bayleaves did not phase them at all, and were left untouched.
- Like a paranoid ninja of the night I found myself doing a quick scan of any room I went into when I turned the lights on. One night I found two in the kitchen which upped the anti, and I declared war. I knew I could deal to one at a time, but with two I knew one would escape. Were their numbers growing, are they getting bolder was it a safety in numbers thing or were they dining out in pairs now? After consulting the neighbours on their weapons of choice, I tried some roach bait in the bathroom and kitchen which was hoovered up completely in the bathroom, but untouched in the kitchen. The bait is boric acid regurgitated to other cockroaches and will kill cockroaches that cannibalise dead cockroaches. A few days later, I found a younger one on the kitchen floor looking not very well moving slowly. He was easy to dispatch. I refilled the bathroom jar lid and it took them about a week to go back to restaurant Sous l’évier.
- With the majority of sightings in the bathroom now, my eyes and ears are on full alert when brushing my teeth at night. I still dislike them as much as I ever did and would really like them to disappear forever. The next thing I tried was a frequency that roaches don’t like and I can’t really hear (high-pitched on the mobile and nothing on the computer). I have no idea how other insects or animals feel about it but after I played whack a roach in the bathtub the other night I thought I have nothing to lose. It’s free, non toxic and worth a crack. The next day I found a big brown roach in the lounge (a first for that room) who wasn’t moving but still alive and was very easy to dispatch with a wad of paper towels. I think I have found a winner. I will be playing this each night while I brush my teeth.
- Since then I have found one dead on its back, another very much alive until I despatched it. Because they move so fast, there is never enough time catch them or to play the frequency and observe what it does. I think a multi-pronged approach is best depending on how many roaches are there and if there are kids and pets around.
Tips
- Another approach is to put your unwanted guest of choice (spider, cockroaches etc) in as a client and use the aura module with the intention that they leave your home instantly and never return. A friend shared this with me for a deadly spider in Australia, running the frequency for 12 mins and the spider never returned.
- https://learn.eartheasy.com/guides/natural-insect-pest-control/
- The ant frequency below also worked for stopping ants regularly seen on the kitchen bench. After playing the frequency… “I really cannot believe it – there is not one ant on my kitchen bench!!!”
Roach Repellant Frequency
You’ll have to sign into Youtube first.
On the same Youtube channel there are repellent frequencies for bedbug, ants, pigeons, flies and more.
