ant and cockroach repellent???
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Marigold plants, acutally. Sounds like you're wanting to go natural. Of course there's Raid for ants and roaches. Try clove oil too if you're wanting natural remedies.
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try B+Drier, it works miracles.  i've tried so many anti-perspirants including certain-dri but they never worked for more than an hour or two.  B+Drier is 15% aluminum chloride, the active ingredient in anti-perspirants, which is the highest you'll find over the counter.  plus it doesnt itch like certain-dri, just make sure you put it on every night before bed for the best results.  and wear your normal deoderant as well, because its only an anti-perspirant.
811396
Yep. I discovered duct tape. Works wonders on unruly little hellions.
680764
My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family. I found this all natural repellant that works on all types of fleas, ticks, chiggers, even sand fleas. I hope this helps. May the Lord be with you and your family.
196922
Yes, I have ants in my kitchen.  Set out some bay leaves.  Seems to have made a difference.
258597
go to lowes or home depot or some place like that and get spider glue or bait traps... or call an exterminator and ask them what your options are, they usually will be helpful FOR FREE!.
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Step on them. Or use professional roach baits, pesticide dusts, aerosols or residual spray concentrates.\n\nCypermethrin insecticides are the most popular for killing German cockroaches.  Mop Up can also be used when mopping kitchen floors and is used primarily in restaurant roach control.  \n\nThe best professional bait for German roaches is Maxforce Gel.
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The cockroach is an omnivore, that is, it eats everything edible, animal and vegetable. So if we do not move around too much while sleeping they might be inclined to nibble on our earlobes at night. They are rarely aggressive enough to attack us while we are awake. When visiting Tulane University in New Orleans many years ago I slept in a dormitory room and cockroaches were flying down from the ceiling onto my head. I would guess that these large American cockroaches, _Periplaneta americana_, would be capable of taking a good bite out of me.  Only the larger species could take a bite through our skin. Of course the skin of children is much more tender and vulnerable to a roach bite. If the bite becomes infected it is possible for it to leave a scar.
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The really good stuf is permethrin arthropod repellent if you can find it. You spray it on your clothes and it has to dry before you wear them - very potent. Another trick that works well - ticks cant stand carbon monoxide - if we were in a really bad place for ticks and had nothing else we would take a hose and put over the exhaust pipe of your vehicle and put it on the legs of your pants,socks and shoes. If you do find the spray mentioned above be careful with it and use it like the instructions say. Have fun.
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My cousin told me this little trick......pour some powdered meat tenderizer on it. I use it for wasp stings too. Usually I dampen the affected area a little so that it'll stick on there better and then I leave it for about an hour. Works for the wasp stings, should work for jellyfish stings.
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LOL, I'm assuming you mean cockroach. This reminds me of something that happened when I was just a child. I'd say age 8. I remember my mom putting on her hairdryer. They had those shower cap looking things with a big tube attached to it. Anyway, next thing I know she rips that thing off her head. Opens the drawer and grabs a q-tip. Sticks that q-tip in her ear. Next thing I know a spider comes running out of her ear along that q-tip. lol. Oh man that was 40 years ago. I think it traumatized me. I'll never forget that moment. Try a q-tip. Go easy as to not squish it. If you meant another kind of roach. Well that's another story I'll save for another time. =)
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Use citronella oil (or anything that has citronella in it: candles, etc.), it is an organic way to repel mosquitoes.
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Spider do not senses like insects, so insect repellent is no good. You just have to see and avoid. What you can do is to carry a stick in front of you so that you get rid of any potential webs that may be across your path. And spider along the way. This is good against spider on web on trees. Ground spider will be harder to see and avoid. Wear boots or high cut shoes.\nBut you should relax, they are more scared of you than you of them! You are so much larger in size! Anyway most spiders are harmless to humans except for a couple, so don't get too worried about them.
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Look in moist wood areas for carpenter ants. They are fairly large as far as ants go.
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Yes, hot (preferably boiling) water would indeed kill cockroaches, assuming you could keep them in the water for the several seconds it would take to kill them.\n\nCockroaches, like most insects, have a waxy coating or cuticle on their exoskeleton that aids them in regulating water loss from their bodies.  Because of this, most insects have at least some ability to swim, and cockroaches are no exception.\n\nAssuming you had a captive cockroach and a pot of boiling water, what would probably happen is you would drop the cockroach in the pot, and the cockroach would immediately swim for the edge of the pot, climb out and run away before the boiling water killed it.\n\nShould you be able to contain the cockroach and keep it from getting out, it would indeed die.\n\nWe often use boiling water to kill insects before identification, because the boiling water kills them very quickly, but without deforming or discolouring the insect.
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We had a problem with copperheads also and mothballs around the area work great!  Also chickens will kill them and cats.  If you get bit you just need to go to your doctor or emergancy.  Make sure you wear boots when walking about out there!
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Yes, it is a new discovery by a scientist at North Carolina State University. Here is a direct link to the press release: \nhttp://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/02_06/164.htm\n\nThe tomato compound apparently repels ticks, cockroaches, and some other insects. The big question will be "How effective is it?" since female mosquitoes basically just follow carbon dioxide from our bodies.