Cockroach treatment

Key Features About Cockroaches:

Sometimes confused with black beetles from the garden, cockroaches are distinguished by their very long whip-like antennae, flat oval bodies and rapid, jerky gait. The adult German cockroach is 10 to 15mm long. The Common or Oriental cockroach is 20 to 24mm long. They are rarely able to survive out of doors in the British climate, but thrive around the heating ducts and boiler rooms of large centrally heated buildings e.g. hospital, bakeries, hotel and restaurant kitchens, laundries and blocks of flats. They cluster around pipes, stoves, sinks, especially in humid areas.

Biology:

The German cockroach carries its egg case, a small brown purse-like capsule, until the 30 or more nymphs hatch from it. The Oriental cockroach deposits its 13mm long egg capsule on packaging, sacking or in suitable dark crevices before the 16 or 18 nymphs hatch out. Cockroaches grow by stages - from "mini-cockroach" nymphs to maturity in six to 12 months for the Oriental cockroach, but only in as many weeks in the case of the German cockroach.

Distribution:

Cockroaches are found throughout Europe and the Americas, particularly in warm, humid climates.

Significance:

Both German and Oriental cockroaches eat any sort of food and emerging after dark, from their inaccessible harbourages to forage, contaminating food and food utensils, or food preparation surfaces as they go. They taint food with an obnoxious smell and may be carriers of various diseases, including serious food poisoning.

All the nymphal stages and the adults feed on the same type of food, making the establishment of an infestation extremely easy.

Removal:

Infestations can become very quickly established and can be very difficult to control, because the populations increase rapidly and cockroaches are incredibly hardy – they can survive long periods without food or water.

However, once the source of infestation, the species of roach and their harbourages have been identified, cockroaches can be effectively controlled using an integrated approach, incorporating baits, sticky traps, insecticidal dusts, growth regulators and proofing against further infestations.

Post-treatment monitoring is essential and re-treatment will almost certainly be needed.

Service

A fixed price 3 visit blitz treatment using a variety of control methods. A 3 month guarantee and certificate is included with each treatment.