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The idea of having insects running around the home, going where they like, is quite disgusting to most people. The thought of bugs running over you whilst you are asleep or foraging off your food in the pantry is quite off-putting too.

Most people go straight to the hardware shop to purchase insect spray and poison. However, nowadays, lots of people are concerned about using sprays because of the depletion of the ozone layer and because sprays kill indiscriminately.

Poisons may also be indiscriminate killers of bugs, unless the poison is specific to one pest insect or a group of pest insects. However, there are other methods of targetting pest insects using traditional ways, some of which have been placed in sprays and liquids and rebranded as modern.

Many people already have these insect killers in their food cupboard or garden shed, which will come as a big surprise to them. OK, you might not have boric acid in the kitchen, but it is easy to buy and if you add it to sugar and a little water or cola, ants and cockroaches will lick it up.

However, boric acid is indigestible to these bugs and it sets in their stomachs leaving no space for real food. Unable to regurgitate it and unable to consume anything else, they will starve to death.

You can distribute it in small puddles on shards of glass or tile or soak balls of cotton wool in the mixture and leave them lying in corners where other animals cannot go like behind a couch that is situated against a wall.

You can use boric acid against termites as well, but you need to employ another tactic. Termites consume wood and hence the difficulty, they will not take boric acid and sugar. However, if you mix the boric acid with paraffin or propylene glycol or even a thin oil, the liquid will soak the boric acid into the wood.

If the liquid does not repel the termites or after it has evaporated and worn off, the boric acid will still be there to kill the foraging termites. This is best used as a preventative course of action. If you have a significant infestation of termites, you require professional help ASAP.

Boric acid, also called borax, will also kill silverfish, but you require a different tactic again. Silverfish can survive on amounts of food that we are not able to even see.

Therefore, if you mix boric acid, flour and water into a very thin liquid, you could dip a rag into it and wipe it over surfaces that you do not use often like window cills, the insides of cupboard doors and the bottom of wardrobes.

It will remain there for years and as silverfish, ants or cockroaches come along, there is a decent chance that they will discover it and eat it, causing their demise.

There are other home things that can be used too. Cornstarch is indigestible to cockroaches, so a bit of stale bread soaked in this and water will also kill.

Diatomaceous earth is helpful against cockroaches and bed bugs, but it will not kill them, it just destroys their protective waxy coat to permit chemical pesticides to do their job.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on several subjects, but is currently involved with how to get rid of pests. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.