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Tips for Exterminating Cockroaches In and Around Your Home

Art Berube in Edmonton Cockroach Exterminator

Cockroaches feed on all types of organic materials including foodstuffs, paper, wood, soap, glue in book bindings, cloth, plants, hair, garbage, sewage and even insulation on electrical wiring. Cockroaches are carriers of salmonella bacteria that cause food poisoning and carriers of other disease organisms.

Monitoring
There are four factors that explain the success of the cockroach in human habitations:

• Cockroaches flourish in the human tropical environment.
• Cockroaches can utilize human clutter and interior building design for their harbourage.
• Cockroaches feed on a wide range of food and are not subject to periodic scarcities.
• Cockroaches develop in a short period of time allowing them to adapt and overcome environmental and pesticidal stresses.

Cockroaches generally live on the same wide range of food that we eat. Accepting many different foods shortens foraging time and foraging distance as well.

Inspections of areas with a good flashlight is the most effective method of locating cockroaches. We search dark, undisturbed and remote places of harbourage that you may have thought inaccessible. The use of sticky traps is another monitoring method used for detection. Correct trap placement depends on your understanding of foraging habits. Jars and traps baited with fermenting materials such as beer, bread, potatoes, or softened raisins can indicate population size but are not especially helpful for finding harbourage. Hand mirrors, magnifying lenses, or other small tools may aid in locating cockroaches. protection. And as long as the frame is in good shape repairs are easy and can be done in a few minutes. Here's how to make your screen door or window look good as new.

All areas should be inspected. This includes behind, under, inside, on top of, and around all appliances, shelving, tables, walls, cabinets, and any other area that may harbour Cockroaches. Inspection tools should include a bright flashlight, a mechanic's mirror, screwdrivers, flushing agents, and pencil and paper. A sketch of the structure, including the areas inspected and the locations of cockroaches and/or damage of cockroaches should be identified.

Monitoring for cockroaches is particularly important because it indicates the extent of the cockroach infestation and where the infestation is. After an extermination program is initiated, it is still important to monitor to ensure the cockroach extermination program is working.

Control Methods

Physical
As with any insect problem, to exterminate cockroaches it is important to observe good housekeeping practices:

• Proper storage of food.
• Proper storage of garbage, particularly kitchen waste.
• Screening vents, ducts, and windows.
• Reduced access to water sources.
• Ensuring kitchen area is cleaned regularly to eliminate food sources such as crumbs, grease, etc.
• Sealing cracks and crevices that could harbour cockroaches.

Habitat Alteration
Sanitation is especially important for exterminating cockroaches and includes the removal of food, harbourage, and any other discarded items that may be of use to cockroaches. It is important to stress that all areas should be cleaned up and kept as clean as possible.

Exclusion
Exclusion is an easy method of controlling cockroaches and it is eliminating areas in which they hide and breed and the routes by which they move within your house. Exclusion is the process of sealing up and removing all entry points, harbourages, and other areas that are attractive to cockroaches. Depending on the species of cockroach, areas that may need sealing are: doorways, windows, openings in walls, openings in cupboards, cracks and crevices, etc.

Chemical
To Exterminate cockroaches, concentrate on injecting pesticides into active harbourage areas rather than attempting to apply pesticides in areas of uncertain harbourage as this is a waste of pesticide and can lead to pesticide resistance. The crack and crevice type of pesticide application is recommended to control cockroaches.

In homes, offices, and other non-food areas, spot applications of the pesticide should be applied to areas where insects are likely to occur. Spot treatments should be applied only when they can be safely used in areas of a known infestation.

Cockroaches build large populations quickly. Generally, their rapid population growth allows for increased variation in each generation. In terms of pesticides, this means that pesticide resistance can occur quickly. When these roaches mate, resistance to the pesticide is passed onto their offspring, resulting in a population with increasingly larger numbers resistant to pesticides.

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