Finding cockroaches in your home or business can be very distressing. Cockroaches are known as
carriers of various number of diseases such as Salmonella, Dysentery & Gastro-enteritis,
exposure to this pest also poses significant health risks. Increases in eczema and asthma
have even been linked to cockroach droppings.
Pestomark professionals will tailor specific treatments to eliminate cockroaches in your home or
business. Our professional team is experienced and knowledgeable and provides targeted solutions
most suitable for your specific problem and location. We also offer expert prevention advice on
effective deterrent methods for all types of cockroaches.
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Pestomark service begins with a thorough inspection of your property. This will help us identify
any potential hideouts and assess the level of infestation by looking for signs.
Our professionals use monitoring traps, gel bait application, spray treatment using wettable powder
or microencapsulated insecticides. Dust formulations and IGR's can be applied upon approval from
the Technical Department.
Based on fossil records, cockroaches have remained little changed for 200
million years. There are over 4000 different species of cockroaches worldwide
– not all are regarded as pests. Those species, which are now classed as
pests originated in tropical climates but have now become cosmopolitan in
temperate zones, having been distributed by commercial activities.
Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis) The female Oriental cockroaches carry
the oothecae for about 30 hours, after which time she deposits them,
dropping or attaching them near to a food source. Each ootheca contains 16
eggs which hatch in approximately six weeks, but this period may be greatly
extended in cool conditions. In this situation the egg case represents a
biological time bomb waiting to hatch and continue an infestation. German
cockroach(Blattella germanica) The ootheca, containing 35-40 eggs, is
carried by the female until it is within one to two days of hatching. Small 1st
instar nymphs emerge from the ootheca and easily infest tiny cracks and
crevices in the immediate area.
American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)
The female deposits oothecae a few hours or up to 4 days before the 1st
instars emerge. The ootheca, containing 10-15 eggs, is dropped or glued to
a suitable surface, usually in a pocket of high humidity near a food source.
Australian cockroach (Periplaneta australasiae) The female cockroach
deposits the egg case containing around 16 eggs which hatch after a period
of approximately 80 days.
Cockroaches are omnivorous. In addition to conventional foodstuffs, they will
feed on a wide range of organic matter including other cockroaches. Their
activity peaks during hours of darkness. They exhibit incomplete
metamorphosis; the juvenile stages or nymphs resemble the adults. Each
cockroach moults several times in its life cycle producing a larger nymph and
eventually moulting to the adult stage. Some species are fully winged in the
adults, others may have reduced wings or wing buds. When wings are
present, they are leathery and veined.
The females of those cockroaches
classed as pests all produce egg cases or oothecae, which contain eggs,
which hatch inside the case from which nymphal cockroaches emerge.
During the daytime, cockroaches spend most of their time in harbourages
grouped together. This behaviour is influenced by them finding the same
suitable harbourage. They also produce an aggregation pheromone, which is
a chemical messenger to other cockroaches of the same species, who
respond by being attracted to the source of the pheromone. As this
pheromone is present in cockroach faeces, cockroaches will also be attracted
to areas previously contaminated by cockroaches. The development of
cockroaches is affected by food quality, humidity, temperature, and day
length.
Cockroaches foul their environment with faeces, regurgitated food and they taint materials with their characteristic smell. The air in infested premises may contain fragments of their exoskeletons and cockroach excrement. Cockroaches also contaminate food directly as they move from filth to food indiscriminately and are therefore implicated in the mechanical transmission of many pathogens, such as those causing food poisoning and wound infections. Because residual allergens can remain as active contaminants for some time following a treatment, a thorough cleaning regime should be carried out afterwards