Cockroach infestations cause many problems throughout the home and can be quite difficult for the homeowner to control due to their fast breeding rate, and their ability to harbour in areas not readily seen. Even an immaculate home can have a cockroach infestation due to their ability to enter homes via drains and the tiniest of openings in doors and windows and through weep holes in the brickwork.
The omnivorous appetite of cockroaches makes any unprotected foodstuffs susceptible to cockroach infestation and contamination. Their indiscriminate feeding sources in such areas as sewers, drains, and garbage areas bring them in contact with disease-causing organisms.
Cockroaches spread disease to humans as mechanical vectors. Roaches travel rapidly from highly contaminated areas like sewers and trash containers directly to human food ready for consumption. They carry untold numbers of dangerous bacterial and viral disease-causing germs, and there is virtually no upper limit as to the types of illnesses roaches transmit to humans.
The diseases transmitted by cockroaches usually cause gastrointestinal distress, allergic reactions, and diarrhea. They also transmit dysentery, plague, typhoid fever, cholera, and multiple viral infections.
Cockroach infestation causes shutdowns following governmental inspections and complaints from customers. A business’s reputation may never recover from a single cockroach infestation issue that becomes a public matter.
Even in best-case situations, businesses face costly remediation and cleaning expenses following cockroach infestation. Even thoroughly cleaned business properties can suffer from cockroach infestation without professional management and control methods. Any business that wants to protect its customers and its reputation must take a professional and preventative approach to cockroach control.
Following mating, the female cockroaches enclose their eggs in purse-shaped egg cases which they deposit or glue onto a surface prior to the eggs hatching. The young cockroaches, or nymphs, emerge from the egg case. Over a period of up to a year, they go through 5-12 moults as they increase in size. They achieve adulthood after the final moult and are capable of breeding 2-3 weeks later.
They are prolific breeders with the most common of the pest species, the German cockroach, being capable of producing 20,000 offspring within a twelve-month period. Female cockroaches also have the ability to produce young without mating. This is referred to as parthenogenesis.
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Cockroach control requires professional management as home remedies are ineffective and counterproductive. Cockroaches quickly develop resistance to many over-the-counter pesticides, even after very little exposure. Professional management requires thorough inspection and the use of the correct chemical treatment to exterminate existing cockroaches and exclusion of future infestation safely.
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