HARRIS Boric Acid Roach and Silverfish Killer Powder w/Lure for Insects (16oz)
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Features
- Long Lasting - Continues to kill roaches, palmetto bugs, water bugs and silverfish for weeks after application as long as it's kept dry
- Fast Acting - Insects coming into contact with the powder will die within 72 hours after initial contact
- Easy Application - The puffer bottle makes application quick and simple for difficult to reach areas
- Contains Irresistible Lure - Harris food grade lure attracts roaches from their hiding places
- EPA Registered - Made in the USA & Registered with the Environmental Protection Agency (No. 3-10) for use in homes with people and pets
Description
Problem solving has a long heritage at PF Harris. In 1924, two years after its founding, the company tackled the Calvin Coolidge White House, which had been overrun for years by roaches and water bugs. Harris’s product was so successful in eliminating the scourge that he was described on the front page of the Washington Times as a "vermin slayer" who has just fought a decisive, winning battle with a horde of cockroaches which infested the lower regions of the Executive Mansion. Over the course of the next few months Harris took “his final feast” to dozens of government buildings, including the Senate Office Building, the Department of Justice, the Supreme Court and Walter Reed Hospital. Success followed success: Each superintendent of the various buildings was highly satisfied with the results. The company today stays nimble enough to respond to changing market demands, leading the way in the development of numerous products, including natural insect repellents like Swamp Gator and Swamp Gnat which repel biting insects without using deet. Beyond the products it sells, Harris helps customers find easy and economical solutions to pest problems through helpful labeling, instructive videos and personal advice. It’s a brand with a reliable past and an innovative future. PF Harris is America’s oldest EPA-registered company. With more than 55 products, the company provides solutions to treat everything from roaches and bed bugs to scorpions and stink bugs. Shake well before opening. Using the easy applicator, create a barrier through which cockroaches and other insects must crawl. Puff a light dusting of powder in areas such as behind refrigerators, along baseboards and in cracks and crevices where roaches have been seen. The powder contains a lure that roaches will seek out. Take measures to ensure that the powder is kept dry in order to remain effective. Boric Acid works by interfering with the roach's digestive system. In addition, the powder will cling to the outside of the roach, helping to kill other roaches when the affected roach returns to the colony. The powder is fast acting; insects coming into contact with the boric acid will die within 72 hours. Eliminate Liquid insecticides can be used to treat in and around the infested harborages in kitchens and bathrooms. Treat along and behind baseboards and into cracks and crevices on counters as well as under sinks. Use boric acid roach tablets in hard to reach areas under sinks, and behind refrigerators and other kitchen appliances. Roach powder can also be used behind baseboards and in locations not easily treated with liquid insecticide. Sticky traps can be used to control infestations. Place these traps next to baseboards for optimal effectiveness. Prevent Removing excess food scraps and limiting the availability of water in sites that are infested with cockroaches will help control these pests. Be sure to clean up spills and crumbs right away and avoid leaving food out in the open for extended periods. Seal any cracks and openings with caulk.
Item Form: Powder
Item Weight: 16 ounces
Active Ingredients: boric acid
Brand: HARRIS
Target Species: Insects
Brand Name: HARRIS
Unit Count: 1 Count
UPC: 072725000054
Global Trade Identification Number: 54
Included Components: home-pest-control-products
Item Type Name: Roach Killer
Manufacturer: HARRIS FAMOUS ROACH TABLETS
Model Number: HRP-16
Part Number: HRP-16
Item Form: Powder
Target Species: Insects
Item Weight: 16 ounces
Active Ingredients: boric acid
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Top Amazon Reviews
Size: Pack of 1
*Note* I don't know how common this is, but the cap on the item I ordered was loose, so the Amazon box was full of white powder that was covering my other purchases when it arrived. So maybe don't order this item along with other products that you don't want to get covered with boric acid while in transit. Also, it took me a while to figure this out, but you have to cut off the tip of the applicator with scissors. The entire lid can screw off, and there's a replaceable cap, but there's no real way for the powder to get out unless/until you manually cut off the applicator tip. Anyway, I love this stuff. My previous method for dealing with roaches had been to chase after them with a heavy-duty flyswatter. The down sides to this are that, A) I, as a germophobe, hate having to clean bug guts off the flyswatter afterward, B) my aim isn't the best, so half the time I'd miss and the dang roach would escape, and C) for every individual roach you kill, there are who knows how many still hiding out of sight in the walls or whatever. Using boric acid is better because, not only can you use it proactively and passively (you can sprinkle it around your home and let it do its work regardless of whether you're paying attention or not), but I feel that it's a lot easier to clean up. I don't have to stress about cleaning an instrument and then cleaning everything the instrument and the water touched; all I have to do is just my regular vacuuming routine, then re-apply boric acid if necessary. Also, you don't have to have good aim if you see a roach, you just squirt the bottle in the right direction and you'll probably get a decent amount of power on the insect. From what I understand, the way the boric acid works is that if/when a roach walks through it, it sticks to their feet; then when they clean their feet, they ingest the poison, which eventually kills them. I also had to re-train myself to just toss powder on them and then let them run off - not only does that save me the time and stress of hunting, but with luck, it'll also kill more roaches behind the scenes when they interact with the contaminated one. In a recent incident, I encountered a roach and threw boric acid on it; it freaked out and ran around the living room, but couldn't find a way out (I practically have no furniture and I plug up all the holes I find). I noticed that its gait was starting to get irregular after a minute, so maybe the powder was affecting it without it even having to eat it. The roach eventually stumbled into a spider's web and couldn't get out; by the time I finally had time to dispose of it, it was very dead - not sure if that was because of the powder or the spider, but either way, good riddance. Note that a wide, thin layer that bugs can't help walking through is a lot better than a thick clump they can easily avoid. I'm also under the impression that boric acid loses its effectiveness if it gets wet; if nothing else, powder that gets wet will clump together and will no longer stick to the bugs' feet if they walk through it. Also, boric acid is probably not a good option for households with members, such as young children or pets, who might be tempted to eat the powder. But if you don't have to worry about vulnerable housemates, boric acid is great and I recommend it to help with roach problems. (I haven't seen it affect any other kinds of bugs, though.)
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Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2024 by kh2ff7
Size: Pack of 1
This product does work. I git rid if the entire population 99.9 in three weeks of regular use. The rest 1% am sure I will get rid of in the coming weeks. Just simply spreading the power on floor or in corners may not work. But I had to do a bit more from my side,rather than just simply dispersing or spreading the powder, I spread the powder in small "trays" (the lid of the food containers we get from restaurant) . Then I prepared a "bait" . I took some left over food,cockroach's favorite food (a little fried rice, potato french fries, oily fried fish and sugar) and mixed it with the powder. Then I placed a little bait in the mid of the each trays . Placing it mid made sure in order to eat they had to pass through the powder around it. I placed the trays in potential locations (kitchen, bathrooms ,dining rooms) during the night. I made sure I did clean the area and floor before I placed the tray. This will make sure the only available food is the one in the tray in those locations. The bait(good oily food) and powder will easily attract the german cockroachs as the lights go down Every night they came and ate the bait as well as powder. They passed through the powder and carried home the powder and food along with it. Next few mornings I just harvested 100s dead cockroach from tray and around the floor. Every night I gave them fresh "bait" (basically oily food with sugar mixed with PF Harris powder) and placed it in mid of tray. They should be able to get into tray and get out easily. Make sure the tray is NOT having TALl smooth surface . Better is paper tray (make one if you can ) . A pizza box is a good one for this purpose. Some may have went back to the nest and died. They took the powder and food carried along with them to nest. I read and researched that The female cockroach (are usually back in nest with egg) and with babies . They ate the powder on the body of these carrier cockroachs coming back and females and babies die. Once they all start dieing and stop getting the food they start eating the dead ones ( poisoned and having the powder on their bodies) and the rest remaining aldo die. It will be a chain reaction and the entire population is eliminated. The point here is you need to let the cockroach go back to the nest after it visited your tray. They will die eventually and will carry the bait and powder back home yk kill the others. Never kill (intentionally) the contaminated carrier cockroachs,let them go back to nest. It takes more than 72 hours to see a noticeable impact so don't get discouraged or disappointed. It takes time and very slow but effective and eliminates it from the roots. It worked for me .I have reduced it to 99.9 % for sure in last three I zm going to continue this for next one month until I achieve 100% success.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2020 by VasRam
Size: Pack of 1
I just had to come on here and give a 5 star rating because right before I got this stuff a little over a week ago, I saw several roaches when I came home at night and turned the light on. Tonight, however, after sprinkling this powder in a few spots, when I came home late and flicked on the light, I didn't see not nare roach! And this is only after only 1 week! And the last time I saw an adult roach, it was shaking like crazy! Clearly, this stuff works! Sidenote: During this same time my apartment hired an exterminator to come into the units twice. Not sure if this added to the great results.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2026 by Chakisha Johnson
Size: Pack of 1
It works great and harmful to your pet or your children no odor and easy cleanup try it out at least one time to see how good it works
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2026 by Tam blu
Size: Pack of 1
It kinda works killed a couple bugs it arrived half way full and it’s not good for toddlers
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2026 by brianna
Size: Pack of 1
There are two main things to consider. Effectiveness and environmental safety. The product is a powder in a squeeze bottle, and it comes out in little puffs, so it's easy to control. You can puff it under baseboards and other little nooks easily. Any critter that walks through that is toast. Right away. I get crickets in the cracks in the concrete in my garage. Puff-puff...problem solves. Same with sugar ants. (I don't have roaches. But it'd work.)This product is boric acid. The White House uses it. I know, because that old TV show "This Old House" interviewed a maintenance guy there. I used it in the old farmhouse we had in Tennessee. Very effective. When we were building this new house, I took this product over and puffed it between all the studs so when they installed the sheetrock, they closed in boric acid, just in case. Now, I've never used it "with LURE" but I can tell you that people used to use boric acid when they had pink eye. Yeah. They made a little solution, but it in a tiny cup, put that to their eye and opened their eye to wash it out. Worked VERY quickly, and you can still buy it at a pharmacy. I have done that for years. My point is that it's safe around pets, birds, etc. I have "hornytoads" on my property, and I don't want to use anything that might harm them, so I'm hopeful this is the safest thing for them. One caveat--I do not know whether boric acid would be effective against fire ants. You could try, but I have my doubts. For anything else, this should be your go-to.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2026 by 😏
Size: Pack of 1
GREAT. 5/5. I’m not sure if it’s the rain here in Florida or what is going on but all of a sudden I saw half a dozen roaches within a few days. I had three options: 1) MOVE OUT. 2) Burn the place down. 3) be a responsible adult and do some research which shows this product is great. Put this down along the edges of my apartment and 72 hours later there’s dead roaches! Not sure where they came from but no one is coming back from their little roach family vacation to my apartment. Hope they had some life insurance for their little gross yuck youngins waiting to live their little gross cockroach life … they can swing through to late go roaches you have nothing on this product
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Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2026 by Ben
Size: Pack of 1
Have not found any dead roaches that came free of charge with a used refrigerator. Never buy a used appliance or you might get free roaches up in the motor with it. Bought this for the problem. Have not found any dead roaches so minus a star. But it must be working on the little critters as they are not running a marathon but they are definitely not so fast as they were. They started coming out during the day where it was mainly at night in the dark. They are not so quick moving these days and they have started to slack up a bit. Buying more just in case I start seeing many again to prevent any reinfestations. I hate the nasty things and nothing else will eat a roach since they are not part of the food chain. Nothing will eat them so they must die. I can't put up with roaches in my home and the first time I have ever had any before but I was in dire need of a good refrigerator and it looked clean and like new. But it was not new, but it had been cleaned up well. I had been told that they didn't need the extra refrigerator when they bought a need one. So I bought the refrigerator complete with some horrible critters called roaches. I'm trying my best to be rid of the problem with them. First I noticed that they always came and went back under the fridge. Would move it and clean under it. They were in the back up in the motor. Thank God I've not seen them going to other appliances. I have not quite worked up more nerves of steel to come to the kitchen in the middle of the night. But I had been for a week and killing all I could. But I have turned off the lights for awhile and returned to see them but they are noticeably slower so it's getting too them. They started a few at a time coming out in daytime and they got killed. I try to kill everyone of the god forsaken critters from hell in my own opinion. I hate them. Might add some baking soda to the mixture since it's half gone but I put down quite a bit of it with all intentions of killing the evil enemy called roaches. I hate them. I was so unsuspecting since this appliance looked new but it was not quite new and it came with the army of roaches from the inside of the motor. It had been cool so guess that they had sought warmth back in the winter. It was cool but not below freezing when I bought the roaches with the nice refrigerator. Never will I ever buy a used appliance again. Kept it out for a couple nights and maybe a pregnant one came in there. But within days I started to notice that there's a huge problem. If I take off another star. It will be because I worked up enough courage to come to the kitchen in the middle of the night. My first time ever having this problem. But although I have not found them dead, they are not marathon runners and they are slow so I suspect that it is working on their central nervous system. They don't get the pets water to share any longer. My pets sleeps in my room with water but there are no roaches in there. Animals are not constantly looking around which was the first clue was seeing my cat clearly watching something. I found out what she was watching. She had never acted like that before so I looked to see a lot of adults running marathon fast as lightning. Well they turned to little tiny ones as I'm sure adults had babies. So they were numerous. They seemed to have slowed down quite a bit and staying long enough to kill them. They act like they are not quite sure about their next plan of attack. But I don't believe that so many died in a short amount of time. They do act differently so many have gotten into this boric acid roach killer. I have not found any dead laying anywhere so I assume that they are somewhere planning their next line of attack. Took up the pets water at night. They have no water. Unless they are all in hiding somewhere else but I don't trust the horrible little critters. The stuff did leave a very noticeable smell for several days after I started going around the fridge and then the other appliances. You must turn into super clean up after everything to help keep them from hitting the counters and everywhere else. I've left light off for an hour and went back in my kitchen and I killed all I saw. They are a lot slower than they were. They still seem to come from under the fridge. So they must still be there in the motor. It's not summer yet where they will not bother to stay warm. But they might. I have noticed less for sure. And they are slower. I'm on the definitely paranoid of bugs side and I cannot put up with roaches. I'm elderly and I have a heart condition so I have not worked up more nerves to come back to the kitchen in the middle of the night quite yet but I know that I can't slack off with them and I have more coming just in case I were to see the so many adults which definitely had babies in several different sizes. So I am sure that they are probably not dead and therefore definitely not gone. Probably planning their next line of defense. I'm afraid of them and I just can't put up with them not in our house. Not in my kitchen. For now I give 4 stars because of the lack of what I was seeing. And they don't run fast. They act sick and I wish that they would all die. The stuff did put off a smell that lasts several days day and night. Unless it's dead roaches up in the motor of the refrigerator. Not sure but air purifier will get any smell but that. It didn't smell like the boric acid itself so I could have lots of dead ones up in the motor behind the fridge. I am not able to take the cardboard stuff off myself and I am afraid to look. I had so many and they did stay confined to the fridge and the trash can which gets emptied often after knowing that. I will have to keep putting it out at least every couple weeks or less. But I want them all gone. I'll update every so often because I had a full infestation and the only thing that kept them confined to the fridge was the cool weather so that they needed warmth. But since the boric acid doesn't have any foul smell, I hope that it is dead roaches. Which will mean it starts killing right away but I don't know that yet. So I will update on this major problem I got free with the used refrigerator. Hopefully I will not see any more but I don't underestimate the horrible little critters. Ordered more due to the major lack of roaches and the running very slow, so it's getting to something for sure but I rather think they are probably planning their next defense. But I will update on this boric acid and the used refrigerator complete with many roaches.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2025 by Long time Amazon customer