Cockroach infestations in your home or business are worth taking seriously. Cockroaches are very resilient, and spread easily and quickly, so a cockroach infestation can quickly become a serious problem – especially if you have cockroaches in your restaurant or café. They risk serious damage to reputation as well as being a health and hygiene risk.
Signs of a Cockroach Infestation
Cockroaches like living in bathrooms and kitchens as they prefer living near a water source. Common signs of cockroaches are live sightings as well as the brown marks of their droppings. During the day you may find cockroaches hiding behind items such as fridges, where it’s quiet and dark. Cockroaches will often also hide in cupboards.
How to get rid or Cockroaches
The best way to exterminate or get rid of cockroaches is always professional cockroach pest control. A good pest control service will offer cockroach extermination as part of their pest control services.
Cockroach pest control usually requires a minimum two visit control program, after which your pest control company will assess. If additional visits are required they will inform you. Hopefully two visits is enough, however in the case of a severe infestation additional visits may be needed.
Professional Cockroach Pest Control
A professional pest control company will usually use a gel or gel bait for the cockroach extermination, The cockroaches eat the gel, which they find very palatable, and this will start to end the infestation. You may be advised to leave any cockroach bodies or dead cockroaches, rather than clearing them away. This is because cockroaches are cannibals and will eat each other. As they eat the bodies of dead cockroaches, the level of insecticide they absorb increases and the cockroach infestation will finish quicker.
Do you Need to Get Rid of Cockroaches?
If there is a cockroach infestation in the work place or an establishment that serves food, such as a café or restaurant, then yes it’s important that any cockroach infestation is exterminated quickly. For restaurants and cafes then a pest control contract is recommended. Pest control contracts for business may include cockroach pest control, however your pest control company will be able to support and help you with this.
Cockroaches in the home are unpleasant and unhygienic so cockroach pest control is again highly recommended.
