These are SMALL insects which come in search of food in the house.These unwelcome guests in the house are found mostly in kitchen,pantry, and dinning room.They tend to make their appearance SINGLY but one must be fully aware that there are others waiting for night-fall so that they can roam about in search of food.
The FEmale cockroach can be identified by means of a sac like projection at her rare end.This bulging sac contains her eggs,which will be laid in a dark and dirty places.The young ones will hatch out after a few weeks.It takes about one year for a cockroach to maturity and during these period a thorough cleaning of the house helps to destroy the eggs and nesting places of these insects.They love warm, dark and moist places
The cockroach leaves behind an offensive odour and contaminates food by leaving excreta on it.Hence the cockroach contaminates every thing that it comes in contact with it.It eats any thing damp,old papers,books,leather,vegetables and fruit leavings and all other scraps of food.
CONTROL MEASURES
These insects usually gain entrance through a common kitchen drain provided for the use of adjoining houses or flats.If both familes keep their kitchens clean,no problem arises.Otherwise atleast once a week,or oftener,boiling water should be poured down the drain after poring kerosene oil or strong disinfectant into it.This will control offensive odours as well as destroy the breeding places of cockroaches
All holes especially around water pipes should be filled with plaster of paris or any other hard,quick drying cement.News papers torn in to shreds,then boiled in water with wheat flour or atta and mixed with glue makes a good temporary filling.
The well known haunts of cockroaches may be treated with 10% D.D.T.and 40% Pyrethrum oil based residual spry or Gammexane spray.Sprays or insectsides powders may be used around hot pipes in kitchen and bathrooms every fortnight to destroy the newly hatched cockroaches.Otherwise Gammexane may be liberally sprinkled in house drains, store rooms and kitchens.The commercial product ,Baygon is also effective against cockroaches
The FEmale cockroach can be identified by means of a sac like projection at her rare end.This bulging sac contains her eggs,which will be laid in a dark and dirty places.The young ones will hatch out after a few weeks.It takes about one year for a cockroach to maturity and during these period a thorough cleaning of the house helps to destroy the eggs and nesting places of these insects.They love warm, dark and moist places
The cockroach leaves behind an offensive odour and contaminates food by leaving excreta on it.Hence the cockroach contaminates every thing that it comes in contact with it.It eats any thing damp,old papers,books,leather,vegetables and fruit leavings and all other scraps of food.
CONTROL MEASURES
These insects usually gain entrance through a common kitchen drain provided for the use of adjoining houses or flats.If both familes keep their kitchens clean,no problem arises.Otherwise atleast once a week,or oftener,boiling water should be poured down the drain after poring kerosene oil or strong disinfectant into it.This will control offensive odours as well as destroy the breeding places of cockroaches
All holes especially around water pipes should be filled with plaster of paris or any other hard,quick drying cement.News papers torn in to shreds,then boiled in water with wheat flour or atta and mixed with glue makes a good temporary filling.
The well known haunts of cockroaches may be treated with 10% D.D.T.and 40% Pyrethrum oil based residual spry or Gammexane spray.Sprays or insectsides powders may be used around hot pipes in kitchen and bathrooms every fortnight to destroy the newly hatched cockroaches.Otherwise Gammexane may be liberally sprinkled in house drains, store rooms and kitchens.The commercial product ,Baygon is also effective against cockroaches
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