How To Use Baking Soda to Kill Pests - COCKROACHES, BEDBUGS, ANTS, MICE, Etc
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To use baking powder in the most effective way as a means of pest control, you need to know how to apply it. After all, baking soda won't repel anything if you keep it locked away in your cupboard!
However, not every form is going to work. Pastes, homemade sprays, and sprinkles of baking powder all have their uses. You can use soda in the garden, in the house - anywhere you can think of. The trick is knowing where and when - and for which pests.
Cockroaches
Baking soda can kill cockroaches - but first, you need to convince them to eat it. Cockroaches aren't attracted to the taste and smell of baking powder, so you may need to use a little sugar to make the mixture seem tastier.
Baking soda works when cockroaches eat it. The soda must be in powder form, otherwise, it won't work.
Combining baking soda with vinegar -some online information recommends this, but the vinegar will actually stop the baking soda from working, warm water, or putting it in food will make the soda virtually ineffective.
When cockroaches eat the raw powder, the soda reacts with water inside the cockroach's body. The baking soda expands, and because cockroaches have a firm exoskeleton, their bodies are crushed from the inside out.
Centipedes
Baking soda won't get rid of the average centipedes on your kitchen floors, but if you have a problem with centipedes climbing up your drains, a baking soda rinse can help here.
This is because when you pour baking soda and vinegar down a drain, the expanding mixture produces CO2, which drowns the centipedes.
Start by pouring one cup of baking soda down the drain. Pour it slowly and thoroughly; the plan is to coat the inside of the drains as well as possible.
Next, pour around two cups of vinegar down the drain. This will mix the baking soda and vinegar together, causing a bubbling reaction and pushing the mixture further down the drain.
You might need to do several baking soda and vinegar rinses to kill your centipede problem.
Snails and Slugs
Just like vinegar or salt, you can sprinkle baking soda in the garden on snails and slugs to kill them.
However, this can be a nasty death for the slug or snail, as the baking soda sticks to their mucusy skin and slowly dehydrates them.
It's more humane to use as much as possible, to kill the creature quickly.
You can sprinkle baking soda lightly onto the soil around your garden to kill any snails or slugs. This will also help to deter any future slimy invaders.
Focus on areas where you've seen snails and slugs, or where you're likely to see them: a compost pile, tomato plants, and other areas are all very tempting to a snail or slug.
Ants
Baking soda will kill ants. If ants eat it the soda, it reacts with the water and acid in the ant's body and expands, just like the cockroach reaction. This dehydrates the ant and kills it.
Again, you need to convince the ants to eat the baking soda. You can do this by mixing baking soda and sugar, then the worker ants bring the mixture back to the colony.
For a better chance at getting rid of the whole infestation, locate the ants' nest and surround it with your soda and sugar mixture.
Mice and Rats
Baking soda will kill mice and rats. This is because rats aren't able to expel any build-up of gas in their system. When ingested, baking soda expands, and causes a build-up of gas in the body of a mouse or rat. Eventually, this build-up will be fatal.
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