Insecticide Recipes

• 1). Exterminate ants by mixing 1 tbsp. boric acid with 1 tsp. sugar and 4 oz. water. Soak cotton balls with the solution, and then place them in areas where the ant population treads.
  
  
• 2). Exterminate roaches by mixing 8 oz. boric acid with a half cup flour; half of a small onion, finely chopped; 2 tbsp. sugar and a quarter cup of cooking oil or bacon drippings. Cream the boric acid, flour and sugar. Add the onion and oil, forming a soft dough, adding more oil if necessary. Roll mixture into marble-sized balls and place balls in warm, moist dark areas where cockroaches frequent.
  
  
• 3). Mix one part boric acid to four parts flour or sugar. Add to food container lids and place in areas where insects are seen. When insects walk through the mixture, it adheres to their legs and body.
  
  
• 4). Sprinkle boric acid into carpets and use a carpet comb to push the powder into the carpet fibers where fleas and larvae reside. Wait one week, keeping children and animals off the carpet. Vacuum the carpet, disposing of the vacuum bag outside. The powder will destroy the adult flea exoskeleton and poison the larvae that ingest it.
  
  
• 5). Fill a plastic squeeze bottle with boric acid. Spread in crevices, cracks and openings most frequented by bugs. With a moist disposable towel, wipe up excess powder until none is visible in the surrounding areas.