Cockroaches are an unpleasant fact of life, but that doesn’t mean that you have to sit back and accept these unwanted guests. With a few simple steps and tricks, you can minimize the risks of having cockroaches get into your home; that way, you never need to have them eradicated.
Cockroaches infestation in your home is more than just an embarrassing problem that limits you from inviting people over, but it is a health risk to yourself and your family. This is because cockroaches infest food, and in doing so they leave behind waste containing bacteria such as salmonella, which can be harmful to your health. Also, cockroach infestations have been linked to allergies and asthma in children.
Because of these horrible risks, it is essential that you apply an appropriate pest control method to ensure that the cockroach does not become a permanent guest in your home. Cockroaches are nocturnal creatures that do not like to be seen (hence the scattering when lights come on). If you can spot a roach during the light of day, you can be sure there are more hiding in the dark that you are not able to see.
Cockroaches are naturally drawn to environments where they are the most comfortable. This will include areas that have a water source, food source and dark places to hide — i.e., your kitchen or pantry. However, there are specific approaches that one can take to make your home uncomfortable for cockroaches — and more satisfying for you.
A cockroach can slip through a small space of 1.6 mm. Young ones can even go through as small as 0.5 mm clearance. You can just imagine how capable they are in slipping inside. For three-fourths of a day, these slimy creatures just rest. It’s no wonder cockroaches are hard to spot. Speaking of durability, a headless cockroach can live for another month before finally expiring. Now you know precisely why cockroaches are survivors. It will take all your effort and hard work to get rid of them.
Cockroach loves dirty and filthy surroundings. For effective cockroach control, you have to keep your home and surrounding, clean and orderly. The kitchen is the favorite hang-out, so make sure it is clean. Avoid having scraps of food and cookie crumbs lying around. Make use of sealed containers to store your foodstuff. Trash cans must be tightly covered. Plaster those cracks on your walls. Another useful cockroach control tip if you can afford it is to have your whole house screened. This will help tremendously in keeping the cockroaches out.
The next few tips are excellent for long-term solutions to roach problems:
-Use a pesticide ‘bomb’ product or ‘fogger.’ These toxic chemical products should only be used in a sealed room because they emit a powerful chemical compound that can purge a room of cockroaches and roach eggs.
Pests are a severe problem & bad affect our social & physical environment. Both termites and bed bugs are very difficult to get rid of and it is always best that you prevent them from entering your home if you can. Dealing with such pests is not a laughing matter. Pesticides are still widely used by many people and even pest treatment companies. But now, there are far more modern techniques being introduced to people. These techniques provide easier, quicker and more efficient results to any homeowner.
-Get poisons and traps: Make sure you get poisons and traps to exterminate them. You can set poisons and traps in areas where they are prominent as this will not only kill them but will ensure they are eradicated for good.
-Hire exterminators: Hiring pest exterminators is one way to get them out of your home permanently. If you want to prevent roaches now and in the future, these experts are your options. They will ask for your money but will leave no bug wandering in your house.
Before you consider getting pest exterminators, it would be necessary to evaluate and get rid of some cockroaches in your home. You should check odd places, cracks and crevices, under your tubs, the kitchen cupboards, the toilets and all possible areas where they could nest. Be careful when checking this places as this vermin could jump on you pass known vector diseases and germs. You could wear protective clothing while doing this, as it is necessary to prevent them from having direct contact with your skin.
After finding their hideouts in cracks and crevices on the walls, seal them with silicon chalk to prevent them from coming out so that they eventually die there. The ones in the kitchen cupboard, bathrooms and other areas in the house should be sealed as well. Degreasers should be used to clean stoves as well as maintain them as this will help get rid of the filth and smears that the cockroach can bread in and also eliminate any food or material they can feed on.
The cockroach wars have not been productive as people from around the globe have tried effortlessly to eradicate them; the reason being that their short reproductive cycle enables them to reproduce rapidly thereby infecting households after households. They have a longer lifespan than most insects making it impossible for you to watch them die out as they molt severally to reach their adult stage.
It is essential to fight or exterminate them at the first sign of an infestation. Doing this would help prevent their early multiplication and colonization of your home. Failing to eradicate them before they colonize your home would make it very difficult to defeat them finally. Like they say prevention is better than cure. It will be better to make prevention your watchword to ward off any possible infestation by cockroaches.
