House Cockroach
What kind of creature has six legs, is infected with six kinds of parasitic worms, and carriers at least thirty strains of bacteria? It’s not an alien mind you —everywhere and in everyone’s home: It’s the house cockroach.
These dreadful insects carry a myriad of infectious diseases such as dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid, and the salmonella virus. What’s worse is these diseases can be spread even without direct contact with the person, since cockroaches leave behind a trail of bacteria where ever they crawl.
Good thing that these days there are already so many ways of roach control approaches that we can employ conveniently.
Since cockroaches are like the battle tanks of nature, they are made to endure, and wiping them out thoroughly is nigh-impossible.
However, there are a lot of ways to minimize the population of these pests. Keeping a clean house and getting rid of possible breeding grounds for roaches is just one way of the easy-to-do cockroach control method.
There is a great possibility to eradicate cockroaches when they are already inside your house. The first thing that you can do to start your own cockroach control operation is to cut the supply of their food and water.
You should fix the faucets that are leaking so that the dripping of water will not be used by these cockroaches. It is also better to keep your food in closed containers before putting them in the pantry.
They breed in dark and damp places and ensuring that no such places exist in your household and that all areas are left clean and free of possible food residue that they may scavenge will in time send these crawlies packing.
Putting eco-friendly insect repellents on garbage bins, near places where food stores, behind dark nooks and crannies, and under the sink is a bright idea for repelling them.
A common household chemical, Boric acid, is a good roach control method, and so long as you keep it away from children and pets, it is an effective way to deal with roaches.
Keeping these pests from coming back is the hard part, but eliminating cracks and nooks in your walls and floors will bar any possible entrance.
Around the year 1960s, just back in the older times, a cockroach trap is put into use to manage roaches within the perimeters of your house.
By employing the widely-known bait and cage method, the roach will be trapped within a tiny box and in the long run, it will die. This approach is commonly used until these days to manage mild roach infestations.
If every one of these approaches won’t work, it’s time to call a higher authority; the exterminators. You can schedule a visit to have a pest control session at your place and let them remove those nasty roaches.
If you still can’t keep these roaches at bay, it is advisable to contact any professional pest management service in order to eliminate for good your pest problems.
