Too many cockroaches in the house – What does it indicate?

Having too many cockroaches suddenly? Worried why did they enter your house? When they are going to exit your house? Too many questions with no answer – isn’t it that, happening with you too. But no worries! You came to the right place and going to leave with all the answers at the end of this article.

Cockroaches are common and nocturnal insects found all over the world. Cockroaches are an extremely resilient pest, and once they invade your home it’s quite difficult to get rid of them. Cockroaches eat and bread in your house without your permission.

Although cockroaches don’t bite they are the reason behind many diseases you go through. Some people even have to experience many kinds of allergies or asthma because of cockroaches.

Why cockroach makes your home theirs?

However, filth invites cockroaches home but it’s not true in every situation. Sometimes all clean and tidy homes can undergo cockroach infestation. Warmth and moisture inside the house also invite cockroaches home.

Once the storm is in your house, it’s no big task to find food for cockroaches. And what even if they don’t find anything to eat for days, then it’s okay too. Cockroaches can live without having anything for 3 months.

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Where does cockroach hide in homes?

Cockroaches are flexible and adjust themselves anywhere. And have a great ability to hide so that no one can find them. They prefer to live in the dark and moist place and hide in dark. By considering cockroaches' ideal hiding ant-eating behavior, it can be estimated where they can hide.

1. Their behavior of hiding in dark places makes them hide behind the refrigerators, under sinks, in dark cabinets, and under the stoves.

2. They can flatten their bodies to hide in narrow areas like cracks and crevices.

3. They mostly consume food at night and can devour a variety of food and even non-food material makes them hide in completely hygienic houses too.

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What indicates cockroach infestation?

The cockroach has a habit of coming out at the night and they hide all day, so if you start seeing a cockroach in the daytime too it might indication of the cockroach infestation.

When cockroaches infest your residence their residue is often visible. Residue as in their feces which kind of looks like black pepper or coffee grounds.

The body of dead cockroaches can be found in case of infestation. Most pests have a strong musty odor so as a cockroach. And this odor of cockroach is very unpleasant for us.

If you have cockroach infestation you may not find a cockroach in day time easily, but you will find their eggs at the place they hide behind furniture, refrigerator, and other places.

Cockroaches also shed their body part as soon they grow up. Cockroaches also eat dead cockroach bodies and leave some parts like wings, antenna behind.

Get rid of cockroach/ Prevention

Cockroaches are sure difficult to get rid of but not impossible. If you take the step to get rid of cockroaches at the right moment it will be easy to discard cockroaches soon. So you should apply prevention schemes as soon you notice cockroaches at home instead of waiting for infestation.

Pai’s Cockroach Dot

Pai’s cockroach dot is gel bait that is organic and rated as “value for money” by Amazon. It has a very attractive smell for a cockroach to it but is completely odorless for a person. It contains 0.05% of Fipronil worldwide used substance to kill the pest.

Cockroach Dot is different from other products because it contains only 0.05% of fipronil which is considered organic because of the addition of it in a small amount.  

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Chemical pesticide or exterminator

To kill cockroaches many kinds of pesticides like bug spray, powder pesticides are available to kill cockroaches. These products can easily terminate the cockroach but will also terminate the fun of your healthy life.

For sure if you call the exterminator to treat your pest they will kill all of them and even in less time than any other method. But have ever asked them what chemical they use as a pesticide, which kills pests so fast. I am sure you didn’t and in some cases, if you did, they may use some excuse not to tell you.

If you know how harsh chemicals they use, you may not call them again for your pest control. So I will suggest keeping a pest control exterminator as your last option for pest control.

Expect all other methods you can always choose a homemade solution to get rid of the cockroach.

Although cockroaches are so disgusting and filthy pests, still in some places cockroaches are considered as good luck. In many cultures, it is good or considered as a way of incoming money if a cockroach crossed the path.

Despite all of this you must get rid of cockroaches as whatever they are but can give you many diseases. Which is enough reason to eliminate them as soon as possible.

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