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Can baking soda kill cockroaches?


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Cockroaches

  1. Cockroaches belong to the class Insecta and order Blattodea
  2. Cockroaches include three stages during the life cycle that is egg, larva, and adult.
  3. Cockroaches are present in flat and oval-shaped bodies with two antennae.
  4. Adult cockroaches moreover possess fully developed wings.

Baking soda

  1. Baking soda is also known as sodium bicarbonate or bicarbonate of soda.
  2. It is an important baking ingredient in bread, cookies, cake, etc.
  3. Baking soda kills cockroaches as it does not like the scent and taste the baking soda
  4. So as a solution, an equal amount of sugar is mixed into baking soda, then sugar attracts the cockroaches, and baking soda kills cockroaches.
  5. Because baking soda expands in the gut of cockroaches and causes drastic pressure when they drink water since their exoskeleton doesn't allow them to expand and this can kill cockroaches.

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