Cockroach management is mainly associated with the termination of this pest and controlling their population in human habitat area. Cockroaches being the most feared creature by the humans is available at almost every continent and almost around every neighbourhood one can go.
These insects are also used in medical studies as a subject to understand neural behaviour and other biological studies like social behaviour and $exual pheromones. Also, sometimes their reproductive physiology and biological clock behaviours are used to test for medicinal purposes in the laboratories. Cockroaches being large and easily available nearby human habitat and ease of rearing and resilience make themselves a perfect candidate to grow into the laboratories.
Cockroaches feed mainly on animal and human food while their odour is almost offensive to tackle with that means the signature mark can easily be found on foods they have been on which makes them a dangerous pest I and around the housings. Their reproduction cycle is way too fast which makes them almost invincible to the destruction of the chain.
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It is to be said that a cockroach has a million places to hide even when there seems to find no place. A science theory proved that the only creature survived the nuclear attack on Hiroshima was cockroach because even the radiation cannot harm them. Their resilience to bacteria and virus allows them to passively transport bacteria and pathogenic microbes on their body, especially in places, where the infected person lives.
They are also tending to give allergic reactions to human via direct skin contact. Allergies like tropomyosin are also linked with a disease like asthma. Cockroaches’ are so deadly that these insects can survive up to a month without food and can burrow into human ears causing pain and eventual hearing loss.
Some of the cockroach species are also used as food in some tribes around the world. These species are completely different from the ones we see near our household where they carry a lot of virus and bacteria on to their skin. They are a good candidate for nutrition because of their fast reproduction cycle and are largely grown into the laboratories around the world in a clean environment where it is to be made sure that these insects don’t get in contact with bacteria and virus.
These cockroaches are also used in medicinal purpose in some countries like China where they are harvested for different traditional and homoeopathy medicines. Whereas in some countries like Thailand and Mexico the cockroach farming is all about cheap nutritious food.
Cockroaches always have been considered to be an invincible insect therefore hard to exterminate completely till human started its experiments on different chemicals and herbs to find a way of getting rid of such hideous creature. Home remedies like Baking soda once have been very popular in nineteen centuries for being a perfect repellent of cockroaches but have no evidence to support the theory so far.
Top 10 best way to get rid of cockroaches given as below.
- Herbal way to control the cockroach population is used to prevent cockroaches to make burrows inside farmland or near the human edible plantation where these pests can cause damage with the captured bacteria of dead animals around the place. Some plants which are known to be a repellent for cockroaches are.
- Bay leaves are a commonly used spice in the Indian kitchen and is also a very good repellent for cockroaches because of their aromatic effects. They can also be scattered in and around the pantry to make it a hard entry for cockroaches.
- Catnip being an attraction to house cats and butterflies is a highly adored plant. It also serves as a repellent to mosquitos and cockroaches because of the oil it contains inside which is abnormally irritating for insects like cockroach and mites.
- Mint plants have their different smell which distracts the cockroaches and repels them from coming nearby the environment near the mint plant.
- Garlic has its famous smell which works well to repel so many insects including mosquitos and cockroaches.
- Chemical used as pesticides are also known to be one of the ways to exterminate insects like cockroaches. Two of the most commonly used chemicals are
- Hydramethylnon being a metabolic inhibitor is used as a bait to cockroaches which then halts the oxidative phosphorylation in the insect which eventually causes its death.
- Boric acid works as a slow poison for insects like cockroaches and kills them after ingesting a few potions of the chemical with baits.
- Traps made of smooth and plain but deep surface are used to trap cockroaches inside the hose as the smooth and vertical climbing makes it impossible for cockroaches to come out once after going inside for the food attraction. Stale beer for that matters is one of the best attractable foods to cockroaches.
- The fumigation process is used usually inside a sealed house where cockroaches may hide inside the cracks and other unreachable spaces. Highly poisonous chemicals are used in this fumigation process which makes the space almost inaccessible for humans for at least a day up to a week.
cockroach control services include all the possible ways to get rid of cockroaches inside and around the house by minimizing the time and maximizing the long effect of their process.