Scary Facts About
Cockroaches
Finding Roaches?
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Finding cockroaches in your kitchen can send a shiver down your spine. Learn what steps you can take to keep cockroaches away from your cooking space.
It’s easy to assume that cockroaches only infest dirty homes, but these pests are equal opportunity offenders. Learn the factors that attract cockroaches to your home!
Cockroaches In The News
How did the German cockroach become the most prevalent and best-adapted pest out of 4,500 species of roaches? Learn more!
It turns out that pest control is no match to cockroaches’ innovative courting techniques. Learn how these creepy crawlies adapted to pest control methods.
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Finding roaches in your kitchen, or anywhere in your house, is a homeowner's worst nightmare. ABC's Entomologists provide insight into the creepy world of cockroaches and ways you can prevent a cockroach infestation in your home.
Click below for tips on what to do and what not to do to keep these creepy crawlies out of your home, plus a few scary roach facts.
Cockroaches could soon be used for future search and rescue missions. Learn how scientists in Singapore are using tiny computer backpacks on cockroaches.
Learn What To Do
Finding Roaches?
It’s easy to assume that cockroaches only infest dirty homes, but these pests are equal opportunity offenders. Learn the factors that attract cockroaches to your home!
Finding cockroaches in your kitchen can send a shiver down your spine. Learn what steps you can take to keep cockroaches away from your cooking space.
Cockroaches In The News
Ask An Expert At ABC
"On average females produce around 1 egg case per month with 16 eggs each. Over time, without management, they can develop to enormous numbers, greater than 5,000 sometimes being found in individual sewer manholes (Rust et. al. 1991)."
Alan Brown:
How quickly do cockroaches reproduce?
How are cockroaches beneficial to the environment?
"While American roaches are omnivores and help break down decaying organic matter, they can also spread disease and bacteria."
Alan Brown:
What are the signs of an infestation?
"American cockroach droppings in areas with activity...they are blunt on the ends and ridged on the sides...Like little Churros! Reddish-brown purse-shaped egg cases (Ootheca) sometimes glued to surfaces, but often dropped in areas of activity. There is often a musty smell when American roaches are present as well."
Alan Brown:
Are older homes more susceptible to cockroaches?
"Yes, older homes are more likely to have moisture-damaged wood creating attractive harborage areas for roaches as well as not being sealed as tightly as newer homes allowing easier entry for cockroaches. Older homes also tend to have more mature trees and landscaping creating attractive exterior harborage."
Alan Brown:
It turns out that pest control is no match to cockroaches’ innovative courting techniques. Learn how these creepy crawlies adapted to pest control methods.
How did the German cockroach become the most prevalent and best-adapted pest out of 4,500 species of roaches? Learn more!
Cockroaches could soon be used for future search and rescue missions. Learn how scientists in Singapore are using tiny computer backpacks on cockroaches.
ABC Austin's Commercial Pest Operations Manager & Board Certified Entomologist, Alan Brown, gives you the creepy cockroach facts you need to know.
Where do cockroaches live or like to hang out?
"American cockroaches prefer moist, humid environments like mulched flower beds, dense ground cover, sewers, and drains on the exterior. They will also enter homes and live in wall voids near water sources like kitchens and bathrooms."
Alan Brown:
Cockroach Facts
Seeing cockroaches around your home? These little pests have become excellent at hiding.
Find their hiding places and kick them out!
Did you know that American cockroaches can look quite different depending on where they are in their life cycle? Learn more about the American cockroach lifecycle and how to identify these pests as they grow.
You may be wondering whether or not cockroaches make noise and if that could help you scope them out. Learn more about the habits of these pests and how to get rid of them.
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"American cockroaches prefer moist, humid environments like mulched flower beds, dense ground cover, sewers, and drains on the exterior. They will also enter homes and live in wall voids near water sources like kitchens and bathrooms."
Alan Brown:
Where do cockroaches live or like to hang out?
"While American roaches are omnivores and help break down decaying organic matter, they can also spread disease and bacteria."
Alan Brown:
How are cockroaches beneficial to the environment?
Ask An Expert At ABC
ABC Austin's Commercial Pest Operations Manager & Board Certified Entomologist, Alan Brown, gives you the creepy cockroach facts you need to know.
What are the signs of an infestation?
"American cockroach droppings in areas with activity...they are blunt on the ends and ridged on the sides...Like little Churros! Reddish-brown purse-shaped egg cases (Ootheca) sometimes glued to surfaces, but often dropped in areas of activity. There is often a musty smell when American roaches are present as well."
Alan Brown:
How quickly do cockroaches reproduce?
Alan Brown:
"On average females produce around 1 egg case per month with 16 eggs each. Over time, without management, they can develop to enormous numbers, greater than 5,000 sometimes being found in individual sewer manholes (Rust et. al. 1991)."
Are older homes more susceptible to cockroaches?
Alan Brown:
"Yes, older homes are more likely to have moisture-damaged wood creating attractive harborage areas for roaches as well as not being sealed as tightly as newer homes allowing easier entry for cockroaches. Older homes also tend to have more mature trees and landscaping creating attractive exterior harborage."
Cockroach
Facts
Seeing cockroaches around your home? These little pests have become excellent at hiding.
Find their hiding places and kick them out!
Did you know that American cockroaches can look quite different depending on where they are in their life cycle? Learn more about the American cockroach lifecycle and how to identify these pests as they grow.
You may be wondering whether or not cockroaches make noise and if that could help you scope them out. Learn more about the habits of these pests and how to get rid of them.
Cockroach
Prevention
It’s easy to assume that cockroaches only infest dirty homes, but these pests are equal opportunity offenders. Learn the factors that attract cockroaches to your home!
Many homeowners think they can rely on cats, birds and lizards to control their roach population. Learn whether these animals can control roaches and what you can do to control these annoying pests.
Most people have encountered cockroaches in their homes, but do you know how to get rid of them? Discover how to get rid of cockroaches in your kitchen cabinets, whether natural remedies work and why roaches will infiltrate even a clean home.
Cockroach Prevention
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It’s easy to assume that cockroaches only infest dirty homes, but these pests are equal opportunity offenders. Learn the factors that attract cockroaches to your home!
Many homeowners think they can rely on cats, birds and lizards to control their roach population. Learn whether these animals can control roaches and what you can do to control these annoying pests.
Most people have encountered cockroaches in their homes, but do you know how to get rid of them? Discover how to get rid of cockroaches in your kitchen cabinets, whether natural remedies work and why roaches will infiltrate even a clean home.
