Cockroach - Facts and Pest Control

Facts

Cockroach is small but terrible creatures. It's because they are fast, possess a strong escape reflex and intractable characteristics.

They have the ability to feel the air in their surroundings produced by their predators. And can respond quickly by escaping and hiding from the threat. Cockroach consume any organic foods available to them that even paper and

There is a common predator for cockroach that can be found in the home, which is the lizard.

This predator can eat a whole cockroach despite of their size which is smaller than of cockroach. Lizard is a great help in reducing numbers of cockroach in your home.

That's why it is better to drive them not away in your home. Sometimes, there are instances of cockroach flying inside your home, that may possibly surprise you and stick to your clothes or even skin.

You'll feel the texture of spikes on its legs. Then your response would be hilarious just to remove the sticking cockroach.

Cockroach is really disgusting and cause so much damage. Primarily, they infest foods that we eat.They leave their eggs or feces there and starts the infestation.

This may cause sickness to those who will eat the infected food, either human or animal. With their alien like head, spiky, dirty and stinking body, they cause infestation on somewhere they crawl in.

They are capable to quickly multiply in numbers. A female cockroach may produce 6 to 90 oothecae (egg case). These oothecae are consisted of 15 embryos.

And may hatch in the span of 24 to 38 days. Therefore, you may notice that if you kill a cockroach, another one will appear somewhere else due to their numerous count.


The Method
It is a serious problem when a cockroach achieved to mass multiply in your home because it can also produce massive mess, bacteria, and parasites that can harm human and animal’s health.

Therefore, getting rid of them is a necessity. You need to prevent them to escalate in numbers or else consequences will be a pain in your head.

These are the steps or methods to follow for controlling and wiping out their population:

1. Cleanliness is the best
The cockroach will not go near or dwell in your home if they feel that if it’s not a perfect place for them. They go where there are food and shelter. They want messy and dirty place because it’s their natural habitat.

Another reason why they go back even if you already killed other cockroach is that there is a leftover part of other cockroach’s body or juice from the body, the other alive cockroach will go back again and again because it will think that there is another cockroach on that specific place or spot.

Fast but not fine cleaning is not enough. Ensure that there is no remaining dirt, mess and foul odor in your home. Keep your home always clean to prevent the cockroach to come back.


2. Kill the cockroach with mercy
Do not ever kill cockroach barehanded, or by using slippers and shoes. By doing so, the bacteria or parasite inside their body will scatter across to were they were killed.

If the dead cockroach made a contact in your skin you’ll be infected by it. So if this happens, immediately wash the affected area with soap and with running water.

When it talks about killing cockroaches, you need to use baits. You can make your own bait or buy in the market.

You just need one part of sugar and three parts of boric acid if you want to make homemade bait. The sugar attracts the pest to eat the bait while boric acid acts as a pesticide and will kill the cockroach.

You can also use gel bait which is very effective against the cockroach. Use it near or on the very cracks and holes in your home.

The tendency would be, cockroaches will eat the gel and die quickly. And if you try to put this bait on all the possible areas where they go, later you will see dead cockroaches lying on the ground and the only thing that you need to do is to clean, wipe them out and throw them in the garbage.

There is also another inexpensive way to kill cockroach, it is by spraying soapy water to them. They will die on it because of suffocation.


3. Seal any hole or cracks in your home
The cockroach can go in or out from their nest freely. What if you try to obstruct it? Surely, these pests will not perform their daily routine.

You just need to seal all the cracks and holes in your home. So, all you need to do is to prevent them from multiplying while they are still few. Then its your chance to wipe them all with ease.


4. Repair any water leaks
Cockroach wants water and moisture. They can survive for a long period of time without food but only a short period of time without water.

Stop their source of water from flowing by repairing sources of water leaks.


5. Call the pest exterminators
If you think that you can’t handle the situation by yourself only. Do not hesitate to leave the job to experts and professionals.

They will do the job and provide you the solution you need. But be reminded that it is your responsibility to make an action early so that it will not lead you to this kind of option.