Head Lice Prevention tips by Lice Squad Canada

If you want to avoid getting head lice there are some easy things that you can do.  The following steps will help.

Step 1.  Educate your children.  Have a talk about head lice with your kids.  Let them know the things that they can do to avoid getting head lice.  Children are most susceptible to getting lice and usually bring them home from school, camp or day care.  Use tools such as an educational coloring book or web site to show pictures and share information.  Lice Squad Canada can provide you with both.

Step 2.  Avoid head to head or hair to item contact.  Keeping the hair up and away from other people's heads is the best thing that you can do to avoid getting head lice.  Sharing hats, combs, towels, and other hair items is not advised.  Keep in mind that you may also get head lice from car seats, bus, plane and train head rest.  Never try on hats in department stores and don't share head gear for sporting events.  If you must share then use a hair net or do a visual inspection first.  Wiping, vacuuming and blowing the item off before use is also a good measure to take.  There are some prevention products available that will leave a scent on the hair but these are not 100% effective.  They do help but must not be completely relied on. 

Step 3.  Take a peak once a week.  Catching a head lice infestation early is key.  It helps to avoid a sever infestation, the spread to others  and makes getting rid of lice much easier.   This will also stop others in the family from getting lice.  Build a regular head check into your family's weekly hygiene practice.  Check-A-Head and avoid the spread.      

Step 4.  Report a head lice infestation ASAP.  Tell your school, camp, day care or other families that you have been in contact with so that they too can check and treat if necessary.  If you don't speak up lice may spread and continue to go around and eventually you may get it back too.

Step 5.  No Nit Policy.  Ask your school if they do regular head lice screening or education.  Checking children after any school break upon return from summer holiday, winter break and March break is essential to stopping and lowering lice cases in most schools.  Camps and day care centers can also benefit from this as well and can modify their screening times to suit.  Does the organization allow children with lice to attend?  What is their protocol or reporting like?  Another helpful thing to do is hold a head lice education day.  If your school, camp or organization does not do these things suggest that they consider it as this will help avoid and decrease lice infestations in the general population.

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If you're put up against the Zerg and you need a quick Starcraft 2 Roach Counter then i think this article should be able to help you out.  A roach army heading towards you can be extremely intimidating, but with the right units ready to counter it you can cleanly defeat them and push back into their base.  Let's get into it

The Basics & Standard Roach Counters

If you are the Zerg then you want to get as many Ultralisks as you can - they tear up the Roaches.  If you're Terran then the MMM (Marines, Marauders, and Medivacs) is what you want to strive for.  If you are the Protoss then Immortals are your ticket to defeating these terrible Roaches.

That's the basics of the counters, again - you want to either get MMM, Ultarlisks, or Immortals.

That's really the key to defending against it - but I think that there is way more to talk about when fighting an big Roach army.

What NOT To Use Against Roaches

The worst thing that you can do is send units that will be slaughtered in to try and defend against the Roaches.  Some people think that "just cause you have a lot" of units means you can toss them in and probably win.  That's dead wrong in most situations.

These units are the ones that you should never, ever, send in against Roaches.

Zealots, Helions, and Zerglings are eaten up by Roaches and it really isn't even worth it to try and prevent them from coming.  If you're in a bind then it's way better to send those same units into THEIR base to do some damage to their economy vs trying to set them back a few seconds (because a few seconds is all it will take for them to wipe you out.)

Using The Best Guide to Own At Starcraft 2, With The Best Counter Strategies

If you want to know how to really start winning consistently then check out this guide... It's been making a lot of noise and will probably help you to get to the diamond league if you practice a bit.

A guide like this gives you:

* Terran, Zerg and Protoss Strategy Guides
* 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 Strategy Guides
* Campaign Guides
* Unit Guides
* Build Orders For All Races
* Map Editor Guides
* Step By Step Videos
* And Lots Of More Strategies

Why don't you take a look at this step by step guide? Visit: Starcraft 2 Strategy And Mastery Guide

Check it out and learn the best build orders and strategies that experts have been using to get a lot of recognition and popularity... Have fun!  And the next time a Roach attack comes, you will have the best advantage and know exactly what Starcraft 2 Roach Counter you want to use!

So, do you want to learn the best roach counters so you can easily start crushing your enemies with ease? Today? Right now? Visit: SC2 Roach Counter Guide

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Every parent needs to know the facts of lice. Why?  Millions of North Americans will get head lice this year. Will you know what to do?   WHAT ARE HEAD LICE?

Head lice are small grey or reddish brown bugs (1mm to 4mm Long) depending on their age.  Baby lice are called Nymphs.  Lice live on the human head.  They do not live on pets or on other parts of the body.  They feed on blood and cannot survive off the head for more than 24 to 48 hours without a blood meal.  They also do not hop, jump or fly.  Thank God!  Lice lay eggs.  These are tear-drop shaped and are glued to the hair shaft on an angle.  They are also only glued to one side of the hair shaft.  The viable eggs are typically brownish,yellow to caramel in color.  Empty egg cases or dead eggs are called nits.  These are clear, opaque, almost see through.  Do not rely on a product that claims to kill lice and their nits as it is the eggs that need to be killed or removed.  Viable lice eggs are never white in colour.  Female lice lay 3 to 5 eggs per day and live for 30 days.  They need a male to mate with.  Lice eggs take 7 to 10 days to hatch and another 7 to 10 days to be mature enough to mate. 

WHAT DO I LOOK FOR

Look for lice and lice eggs in the hot spots.  These are around the ears, at the crown of the head and at the nape of the neck.  It is best to use bright lights and proper magnification when looking.  Sunlight is best.  Look for red scabs caused by scratching, lice eggs and lice crawling through the hair or sucking blood from the scalp.  Lice lay their eggs close to the scalp but look along the whole hair shaft.  Do not confuse DEC plugs, hair casts or other hair debris with lice eggs.  Remember if it is white like paper or snow.  It is not a lice egg. 

A TYPICAL LICE EXPERIENCE

Most head lice sufferers have tried every product on the market, spent countless hours cleaning and have wasted both time and money on treatments and nit picking.  They have torn out their hair with lousy nit combs and fried their hair with the use of chemical treatments.  They have bagged up toys for weeks, missed work and social functions and have felt great stress and frustration.  Especially if weeks and months go by without relief.  You are not alone in your struggle.  Scientific studies have shown that lice are building a resistance to most pesticide head lice products.  Over use and abuse of these can also be potentially dangerous to young children and those administering treatment to them. It is our opinion that to be successful at eliminating lice one must take a systematic approach.  This meaning that you must combine an effective topical treatment with thorough manual removal over the course of a two week period. If you're at your NITS END with head lice call our info line or visit our web site to learn more about how you can eliminate head lice safely and quickly without the frustration and the use of potentially harmful pesticides.

 LICE FACTS
Female head lice lay lice eggs.
One female louse lays 3 to 5 eggs per day on the hair shaft.
To succeed at eliminating a head lice infestation, one must remove all lice eggs and lice from the hair.
The lice eggs are tear-shaped, usually brown in colour, and are attached to only one side of the hair shaft. Lice egg look-alikes, are white, they surround the hair shaft and are often misdiagnosed as lice eggs.  Nits are empty or dead lice eggs.  They are see-through and will stick to the hair shaft on one side. 
Most mothers waste both time and energy doing countless washing of bed sheets and clothes. Lice are not living in your environment.  They are living on your head.  See our 3 easy steps to cleaning your environment below.
Pesticide sprays & treatments should be used with caution or in our opinion, not at all.
Don't rely on products that claim to kill nits.  Lice eggs must be removed by hand.
We provide a Free Nit Diagnosis Service. Call us for details.

 3 EASY STEPS TO CLEANING & ENVIRONMENTAL CARE

Head lice are not living in your home, on your furniture or in your bedding.  They prefer to be on your head.  The good news is a louse will die within 24 to 48 hours without a blood meal from you.

 HERE IS HOW TO CLEAN YOUR HOME OR ENVIRONMENT

#1 Place all items that can safely be dried on high heat in a dryer for 20 to 30 minutes.

#2 Vacuum items that cannot be dried

#3 If an item can not be dried or vacuumed, set it aside for 24 to 48 hours.

 That is it!  Remember, the focus of head lice elimination should be on the manual removal of all lice eggs and nits from the head.  Remember lice are not living in the environment, they are living on you.  Cleaning should be done initially after your first big nitpick and treatment.  It can be repeated every 4th to 5th day after follow up nitpicks and treatments.  See our web site for effective treatment and prevention products.

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Why Flea Control is Important

If your dog or cat has never had a serious problem with flea, tick or heartworm infestations, count yourself lucky!

To keep your pet healthy and comfortable in flea and tick country, it's important to treat him regularly with a safe and effective treatment. Advantage flea products and Frontline for pets, are two brand name products that will work for your pets.

Fleas, ticks and other parasites can be unsightly, irritating and itchy, and carry disease. An infestation in one pet can spread to other pets - cat fleas will go to dogs and vice versa. These buggers don't discriminate much. Humans are also worthy targets, so look out for red bumps and itchy skin if you've got fleas in your house! Ticks attach to your skin and turn light gray/brown and become enlarged and swollen as they fill with your blood! (However, I DO NOT recommend Advantage flea products for you, just pets! ) Kill ticks by removing them with the head intact and then crushing them, or putting them in alcohol or soapy water.

Fleas Have a Long Life Cycle, so One-Time Treatments Don't Wipe Out The Population!

Fleas lay eggs, which hatch into worms, which then pupate into a cocoon, waiting to emerge as an adult and infect another host. Flea larvae can survive for up to a year, waiting to emerge from the pupae phase and re-infect your pets. They can live in your carpet or your back yard as well as woods and fields near your home.

These parasites carry diseases that can be harmful to animals and humans alike. Bottom line - fleas are bad business and keeping them out of your home and out of your hair should be a serious priority in any area where fleas thrive and humans and animals co-habitate.

I learned my lessons about flea control the hard way when I didn't use any flea and tick spray...

When I got my first dog, Kera - a golden retriever/lab mix - I thought flea control was not that big of a deal. Kera was mostly an inside dog, and even though we lived in North Carolina - (Yikes! Flea country!) - I figured it wasn't a big deal... (and, I didn't want to spend the money on Advantage flea products, Frontline Plus, or any other cheap flea control products).

Then, I got my first glimpse of fleas crawling on her skin. We were sitting together watching TV, and I reached down to pet her and noticed a little gray beast crawling through her hair. I seized up... the food in my mouth suddenly became very unappealing... it wasn't long before I was combing frantically through her fur, finding flea after flea, crushing them and throwing their questionably dead bodies into a jar of alcohol.

Talk about gross!

What I didn't know then is that the flea life cycle can last up to two years. Even if I had caught all the fleas on Kera's skin, my problems weren't necessarily over!

Remember to kill ticks and fleas, you need an ongoing flea treatment program!

Fleas bite their hosts (mammals in most casts - dogs, cats and humans!) and consume their blood. When they bite, their saliva enters the blood stream and creates itching and irritation at the site. They also spread diseases, like Lyme disease, in this manner.

Fleas also lay eggs, which can fall to the floor in your house, or yard - perpetuating the flea infestation even if you've given your dog a one-time treatment like a flea and tick spray, flea bath, or flea dip.

A perpetual treatment regimen with a flea control product like Frontline or Advantage flea products is really the best way to get and keep your pet flea-free. These flea drops provide effective treatment for eradicating the fleas throughout their life cycle.

In addition, you should regularly vacuum your house to remove flea and tick eggs and larvae so they don't re-infect your pets or family.

Here's a great tip... put a flea collar (like one that emits gas to kill fleas) in the vacuum cleaner's collection bag to kill fleas and ticks (and their offspring) that it vacuums up!

Bottom Line - Keep Up With Flea Treatments!

An Effective Flea Treatment like Advantage Flea Products or Frontline Plus can stop flea biting in 3-5 minutes (it paralyzes them) and get rid of 98-100% of adult fleas within 12 hours. However, you need to keep up with a monthly flea treatment program to insure your dog or cat is not re-infected. These flea meds are widely used, extensively tested and recommended by veterinarians across the country as a safe and effective solution that will kill fleas, kill ticks, and keep your pets safe and healthy.

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Philip Palombo was Co- Producer, Director, Videographer and co-Editor for this Music Video which is for Al Basile's CD "Soul Blue 7" for Sweet Spot Records. Composed and Sung by:
Al Basile, Guitar: Duke Robillard, Harmonica: Sugar Ray Norcia, Bass: Marty Ballou, Piano: Bruce Katz, Drums: Mark Teixeira

Audio recorded by Thom Hillier @ Duke's Mood Room
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My husband and I recently bought a new house, and have discovered we have termites!! We are in our early 20's and have a 2 y/o son, so obviosly we have to live on a budget. Exterminators cost ALOT. Is there any way we can get rid of these crazy bugs ourselfs?

I can understand you have to live on a budget.....but can your budget stand having your house destroyed while you live in it?

Talk to an exterminator and see if they can work with a payment plan you can live with. It's for sure you can't live with the termites!

You are going to have to change your priorities. Having a place to live is more important than the money you will try to save working to get rid of the termites on your own.

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Yeah ima sking alot about these but, i was outside looking around to see if i can find a nest, i think i might have found the nest/ im calling an exterminator to fix this for us but for now.

I saw these TINY little black ants with the big carpenter ants, are these too carpenter ants?

Also is oatmeal oats okay to use instead of cornmeal/grits?
I dont have none right now only oatmeal oats i heard they work just as well

They swell, and they might work. MaltOmeal works.

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More and more people are coming to the conclusion that natural pest control is the way to go. For too long we have been relying on harmful chemicals to get rid of the critters in our home and garden. 

One of the most important reasons to use natural pest control remedies is the health and well-being of your children and pets.  They are the ones that are most likely affected as the residue of these harsh pesticides alone could be enough to make a child or pet very ill. 

Here are some tips to say farewell to the bugs in your home and garden with natural pest control remedies. 

Flies 

The little house flies, often congregating in patios and other outside areas, are not considered significant carrier of diseases. The common house fly is another story. As they feed and breed on animal waste and decaying organic material they play an important role in the transmission of diseases to people and animals. 

Sprinkle some oil of lavender on a clean cloth and rub over window and door frames and other places where flies come in and settle.  Use herbs to repel flies. Mint is one of the best repellents as it is also good for ants, caterpillars, fleas, beetles and moths. Basil and tansy can be planted in clumps near doorways – pinch or trod on the leave to release the aroma. Grow a pot of fennel in the kitchen or nearby and flies will stay away. Pyrethrum, the base for most insect repellents, is an easy-care fernlike shrub that grows to about 17 cm. A small bunch of it placed in water last several weeks and even when dead the aroma persists. 

Mosquitoes 

Mosquitoes are not only bothersome but they also harbor diseases. Therefore, natural pest control practices are necessary to repel these mosquitoes both on you as a person as well as keep them from breeding near your home. 

To keep mosquitoes from biting you can apply mouthwash directly onto your skin before going outdoors. Mosquitoes hate the smell of mouthwash because of the ingredients in them.   To prevent breeding problems mix two teaspoons of dishwashing detergent into four litres of water and pour this into any open pools of water in your yard such as flower pots, old tyres or buckets. The soap will kill any mosquito larvae.  

Ants 

Ants are a thorn in every homeowner’s side. They get into everything. 

Dust your garden and trouble areas of your home with baking soda, which is poisonous to ants.   Salt is another natural pest control ingredient that ants don’t like and you can easily spread it around mounds and any place where ants may be entering your home.   Place whole cloves at the point of entry. Put a few cloves around kitchen cupboards and under sink. Crushed cloves sprinkled near nest will repel ants. 

Cockroaches 

Cockroaches are mainly attracted to the food preparation and storage areas in our homes. They contaminate food and eating utensils and impart stains and unpleasant odors to surfaces they come into contact with. 

Soaps with peppermint oil are the most effective natural pest control for cockroaches. Mix two or three capfuls of liquid peppermint soap into a quart of warm water, mix and then spray on the roaches and along their normal traveling paths.

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The world is going green. “Green” is the color of environmental concern, the impetus that drives cutting-edge technology, the buzz word of the socially conscious. Concern for the environment and man’s impact on it is bringing a slew of new products to market, and pest control is no exception. Environmentally-friendly pest control services are growing in popularity, particularly in the commercial sector. Even eco-savvy residential consumers are asking about natural alternatives to traditional pesticides, but their ardor often cools when confronted with the 10% to 20% cost differential and lengthier treatment times, sometimes several weeks.

The raising of America’s environmental consciousness, coupled with increasingly stringent federal regulations governing traditional chemical pesticides, appears to be shifting the pest control industry’s focus to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques. IPM is considered not only safer for the environment, but safer for people, pets and secondary scavengers such as owls. Of 378 pest management companies surveyed in 2008 by Pest Control Technology magazine, two-thirds said they offered IPM services of some sort.

Instead of lacing pest sites with a poisonous cocktail of powerful insecticides designed to kill, IPM focuses on environmentally-friendly prevention techniques designed to keep pests out. While low- or no-toxicity products may also be used to encourage pests to pack their bags, elimination and control efforts focus on finding and eliminating the causes of infestation: entry points, attractants, harborage and food.

Particularly popular with schools and nursing homes charged with guarding the health of the nation’s youngest and oldest citizens, those at greatest risk from hazardous chemicals, IPM is catching the attention of hotels, office buildings, apartment complexes and other commercial enterprises, as well as eco-conscious residential customers. Driven in equal parts by environmental concerns and health hazard fears, interest in IPM is bringing a host of new environmentally-friendly pest management products -- both high- and low-tech -- to market.

“Probably the best product out there is a door sweep,” confided Tom Green, president of the Integrated Pest Management Institute of North America, a non-profit organization that certifies green exterminating companies. In an Associated Press interview posted on MSNBC online last April, Green explained, “A mouse can squeeze through a hole the size of a pencil diameter. So if you’ve got a quarter-inch gap underneath your door, as far as a mouse is concerned, there’s no door there at all.” Cockroaches can slither through a one-eighth inch crevice.

IPM is “a better approach to pest control for the health of the home, the environment and the family,” said Cindy Mannes, spokeswoman for the National Pest Management Association, the .3 billion pest control industry’s trade association, in the same Associated Press story. However, because IPM is a relatively new addition to the pest control arsenal, Mannes cautioned that there is little industry consensus on the definition of green services.

In an effort to create industry standards for IPM services and providers, the Integrated Pest Management Institute of North America developed the Green Shield Certified (GSC) program. Identifying pest control products and companies that eschew traditional pesticides in favor of environmentally-friendly control methods, GSC is endorsed by the EPA, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and HUD. IPM favors mechanical, physical and cultural methods to control pests, but may use bio-pesticides derived from naturally-occurring materials such as animals, plants, bacteria and certain minerals.

Toxic chemical sprays are giving way to new, sometimes unconventional, methods of treating pests. Some are ultra high-tech like the quick-freeze Cryonite process for eliminating bed bugs. Others, like trained dogs that sniff out bed bugs, seem decidedly low-tech, but employ state-of-the-art methods to achieve results. For example, farmers have used dogs’ sensitive noses to sniff out problem pests for centuries; but training dogs to sniff out explosives and drugs is a relatively recent development. Using those same techniques to teach dogs to sniff out termites and bed bugs is considered cutting-edge.

Another new pest control technique is birth control. When San Francisco was threatened by mosquitoes carrying potentially life-threatening West Nile Virus, bicycle messengers were hired to cruise the city and drop packets of biological insecticide into the city’s 20,000 storm drains. A kind of birth control for mosquitoes, the new method was considered safer than aerial spraying with the chemical pyrethrum, the typical mosquito abatement procedure, according to a recent story posted on the National Public Radio website.

Naturally, there are efforts underway to build a better mousetrap. The innovative Track & Trap system attracts mice or rats to a food station dusted with fluorescent powder. Rodents leave a blacklight-visible trail that allows pest control experts to seal entry paths. Coming soon, NightWatch uses pheromone research to lure and trap bed bugs. In England, a sonic device designed to repel rats and squirrels is being tested, and the aptly named Rat Zapper is purported to deliver a lethal shock using just two AA batteries.

Alongside this influx of new environmentally-friendly products rides a posse of federal regulations. Critics of recent EPA regulations restricting the sale of certain pest-killing chemicals accuse the government of unfairly limiting a homeowner’s ability to protect his property. The EPA’s 2004 banning of the chemical diazinon for household use a couple of years ago removed a potent ant-killer from the homeowner’s pest control arsenal. Similarly, 2008 EPA regulations prohibiting the sale of small quantities of effective rodenticides, unless sold inside an enclosed trap, has stripped rodent-killing chemicals from the shelves of hardware and home improvement stores, limiting the homeowner’s ability to protect his property and family from these disease-carrying pests.

Acting for the public good, the government’s pesticide-control actions are particularly aimed at protecting children. According to a May 20, 2008 report on CNN online, a study conducted by the American Association of Poison Control Centers indicated that rat poison was responsible for nearly 60,000 poisonings between 2001 and 2003, 250 of them resulting in serious injuries or death. National Wildlife Service testing in California found rodenticide residue in every animal tested.

Consumers are embracing the idea of natural pest control and environmentally-friendly, cutting-edge pest management products and techniques. Availability and government regulations are increasingly limiting consumers’ self-treatment options, forcing them to turn to professional pest control companies for relief from pest invasions. While this has proved a viable option for commercial customers, few residential customers seem willing to pay higher prices for newer, more labor-intensive green pest control products and even fewer are willing to wait the additional week or two it may take these products to work. It is taking leadership efforts on the part of pest control companies to educate consumers in the long term benefits of green and natural pest treatments.

Even though the cold, hard truth is that when people have a pest problem, they want it gone and they want it gone now! If rats or mice are in their house destroying their property and threatening their family with disease, if termites or carpenter ants are eating away their home equity, if roaches are invading their kitchen or if they’re sharing their bed with bed bugs, consumer interest in environmental friendliness plummets. When people call a pest control company, the bottom line is that they want the pests dead! Now! Pest control firms are standing up against the tide of consumer demand for immediate eradication by enhancing their natural and green pest control product offerings. These new natural products take the most responsible long term approach to pest control; one that protects our environment, children, and our own health. Sometimes it is lonely moving against the tide of popular demand, but true leadership, in the pest control industry, means embracing these new organic and natural technologies even when they are not popular with the consumer - yet.

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Roaches are disgusting nuisance that could cause havoc in any house. They are deadly looking bugs that adore moist and dark areas of your house. It is possible that they survive in any crack and could appear out of nowhere. Everyone hates the sight of these crawlers and it is embarrassing to have them in your home. If you are among the people who are looking to get rid of roaches then this article will definitely help you. The following tips will guide you:

1) Source: First discover the source of the roaches. For this you will have to do a check in the night, as roaches are nocturnal bugs. Do a thorough check in the dark areas of your kitchen, moist areas of bathroom, cracks in your cabinet and corners of your cupboards. Determine from where they are creeping in to your house. Mostly these insects enter from vents and drains. Once you get the source then you can put the medicine or pesticide and check the next day.

2) Killing roaches: If ever you see a roach in your house, my advice to you is to kill it immediately; else, it will reproduce and multiply. There are several ways of Killing cockroaches. Following are some of them:

• Home remedy: Let me give you a very simple home recipe to kill them. You need to make dough with equal parts of boric acid, sugar and flour. Make balls from it and keep them behind your drawers, in the cabinets, below the gas hob, near the drain, below the sink and every corner where you feel they could hide. The trick is that sugar attracts these bugs, flour sticks them and the boric acid kills them. It is a very simple technique and it works really well.

• Insecticide spray: Invest in a pest spray and get rid of roaches in the simplest way. You will only need to spray on them to see them struggle and die. Please keep them away from reach of children and follow the safety instructions.

• Roach traps: You get such traps especially to handle roaches. They have an adhesive that kills the bug. Using bait, you can lure them into the trap. You must keep such traps along the roaches' paths in your house. • Cockroach bait: Roach bait comes in the form of a gel that has lethal poison and attractive food to lure the roaches. They eat the bait and carry it to their nest. This kills all of the roaches. This bait comes in a childproof case. • Liquid concentrate: You get such concentrates from the market. Make sure to dilute theme in water before you could mop them on surfaces to get freedom from roaches.

• Pesticides: You can source professional pesticides from the Internet and spray around the boundary of your home. These are very effective and if you are really suffering from roaches, you must look into this option.

3) Avoid re-infestation: Maintain cleanliness in your kitchen and do not leave any kind of food around to attract roaches. Naphthalene balls are also effective in keeping roaches away. Seal all the possible cracks in your house so that bugs do not survive there.

4) Take professional help: In case none of the methods help you to get rid of roaches then you must hire a professional team to help you deal with this problem.

I can't sleep, because this damn roach came in my room! -Qaadir
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