Pest control the right way

The thing that is universally agreed upon on all continents and in every country, city, town or small village is that all people hate cockroaches.

There are several thousand species of cockroach around the world but these four species account for the bulk of domestic infestations and the Surinamese cockroach known as the garden cockroach in the UAE.

Facts about insects and their control:.

Correct insect identification is the key to this knowledge.
Therefore, the first step to a successful solution to problems is insect and pest management

– Types of cockroaches

German cockroach

The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is the most common cockroach in the UAE and which pesticide companies receive the highest demands for eradication.

An adult German cockroach is 5 to 8 parts of an inch long. They have long antennae which they use to detect chemicals, moisture, air currents and most likely sound waves and vibrations in the surrounding environment.

German cockroaches prefer warm, humid areas and are most commonly found in kitchens and bathrooms. Thousands of German cockroaches can invade a single kitchen.

American cockroach

The American cockroach (Periplaneta Americana) is a large cockroach that can reach an inch and a half in length.

American cockroaches prefer dark, moist and warm areas. It can usually be found in basements, steam pipes, boiler rooms, sewers, rubble and other similar places.

Often they are not noticed until the lights are turned on and they run away.

The adult American cockroach, whether male or female, has two working wings, as it has limited ability to fly, but the strange thing is that it rarely flies.

Eastern cockroach:

It is very dark brown in color and can reach about an inch in length. Adult males have wings up to three quarters below their abdomen, but they cannot fly. Adult females have only small pads of wings.

Oriental cockroaches tend to live outdoors when the weather is warm, but they go indoors in extreme temperatures, cold or drought.

They can be found in trash storage areas, basements and under rooftops. They are often found along the sills of unfinished basements.

Suriname cockroach:

Surinamese cockroach or greenhouse cockroach (Pycnoscelus surinamensis), a member of the borer family.

It is considered one of the plant pests endemic to the Indomalayan region (India and Malaya) and then spread in the tropics and subtropics all over the world and in the temperate climate regions where there is an incubating environment such as greenhouses that provide refuge for individuals who have been unintentionally charged in the soil of plants .

The majority of them are female and reproduce through sexual intercourse in which they develop several offspring from their sexual ancestor.

Asian cockroach:

The Asian cockroach is identical to the German cockroach except for some small morphological differences. It is about 1.6 cm long, the length of the German cockroach, is brown in color and has two wings. The wings of the Asian cockroach are longer than the wings of the German cockroach, and a difference in the shape of the slit in the abdomen can be observed between the two species.

The easiest way to distinguish between them is that the Asian cockroach prefers to be kept outdoors in the light while the German cockroach prefers to live indoors.

The Asian cockroach can enter the home by accident through doors, windows, and poorly tight shutters where it is attracted to light where it can fly directly to the light source in the entrance to the house or garden.

The Asian cockroach can carry many diseases. When they walk on pans, tables and cooking utensils, these insects can cause an allergic reaction in some people.

How to prevent the Asian cockroach from entering the house:

Sterilization comes first.

Like other insects, three factors are required for the Asian cockroach to reproduce, which are shelter, food and drink. If you can eliminate one of these factors through proper sterilization, the cockroaches will either have to die or move to another location.

Get rid of old boxes and piles of paper where cockroaches can hide.
Use a special container for waste, close it with a tight lid, and keep the waste in a tightly closed plastic bag at night.
Repair drains and taps as cockroaches can survive on water alone.
Cleaning kitchen utensils well and routinely.
Empty pet food containers at night or put them in the back porch or in a plastic bag.
Empty leftovers and confine them to one room of the house. This will prevent the Asian cockroach from spreading throughout the rest of the house, especially in bedrooms.
Use heat treated compost in gardens.