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  2. Getting the Bugs Out: 22 Cheap, Natural Ways to Rid ... - AOL

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    Fleas, spiders, termites, flies, centipedes, ants, bedbugs, cockroaches — these icky intruders won't give up. But keeping them away doesn't require expensive chemical pesticides.

  3. Flea treatments - Wikipedia

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    Fleas can be drowned by immersion for about 24 hours; they may appear to be dead if immersed for shorter times, but can revive after some hours. [11] Soaps and surfactants can facilitate the death of fleas in bathing. The process of washing the flea (and the pet) removes integumental waxes on the flea's body and it dies from dehydration. [12 ...

  4. Borax - Wikipedia

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    Borax is more effective than zinc borate for termite control but a 1997 paper concluded that exposing at least 10% of the total colony population was needed for effective treatment. In Japan the practice of laying newspapers treated with o-boric acid and borax under buildings has been effective in controlling Coptotermes formosanus and ...

  5. Boric acid - Wikipedia

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    The boric acid – borate system can be useful as a primary buffer system (substituting for the bicarbonate system with pK a 1 = 6.0 and pK a 2 = 9.4 under typical salt-water pool conditions) in pools with salt-water chlorine generators that tend to show upward drift in pH from a working range of pH 7.5–8.2.

  6. People are eating borax. Why? Here's what experts say ... - AOL

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    People are ingesting borax. Also known by its chemical name sodium borate decahydrate, borax is a salt typically used to kill ants and boost laundry detergent, among other household cleaning needs ...

  7. Fact check: Are sand fleas biting you on the Myrtle ... - AOL

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    These are small flies found in salt marshes and swamps that leave itchy bites. There is an actual flea species found in the sand – chigoe or jigger fleas – but they do not live in South Carolina.

  8. Bug-A-Salt - Wikipedia

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    Bug-A-Salt was created by Lorenzo Maggiore and patented in 2012. [4] Maggiore invented the tool to kill houseflies at a distance, without creating a mess. [3]The Skell Inc company launched its Bug-A-Salt product in 2012 on the Indiegogo platform. [5]

  9. Borate - Wikipedia

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    A borate is any of a range of boron oxyanions, anions containing boron and oxygen, such as orthoborate BO 3− 3, metaborate BO − 2, or tetraborate B 4 O 2− 7; or any salt of such anions, such as sodium metaborate, Na + [BO 2] − and borax (Na +) 2 [B 4 O 7] 2−. The name also refers to esters of such anions, such as trimethyl borate B ...