Dear Heloise: I would like to obtain the recipe for making roach bait that includes boric acid. _ Linda Uptain, Euless, Texas Dear Linda: I’d be glad to repeat this decades-old formula since warmer ...

If you have a smallish roach problem (so far, anyway) and don't want to spend your life savings on an exterminator's visit, you might want to try some homemade roach killer formula. Ingredients are ...

A: Sure. Here are some natural remedies for ants and roaches. If you know where the ants are coming in from, you can repel them with food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE), baking soda, talcum powder, ...

Q:I have a cockroach "problem." I have a compost bin in my backyard that attracts them. I have few visible during the day, but if I go out at night, I can hear them, and if I turn on the yard light ...

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Roaches that have been hard to trap may be a variety that find sugar doesn't taste quite so sweet as bait anymore, a study suggests. Most cockroach baits cover poison in a layer of glucose, a sugar.

Must we co-habit with cockroaches? Might as well, a scientist tells NPR’s “Fresh Air” program. In an interview broadcast Monday (Nov. 12), Rob Dunn, professor of applied ecology at North Carolina ...

Finding pests like silverfish or house centipedes in your home is never fun, and getting rid of them can be quite the chore. One particularly gross culprit that can make its way into your home is the ...