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German Roaches

 

The German roach is one of the most common roaches found in apartment houses, restaurants, and hotels. German roaches ( eggs included), are "brought in", usually on man's belongings, luggage, boxes or packages. All it takes, is bringing in one egg capsule, six months later you do have an infestation.

It is one of the most challenging to manage and eliminate-but can be done.. To accurately and completely eliminate these roaches you need to attack them from several fronts...using baits, dusts, growth regulators and pheromone traps.

They have the most eggs produced, shortest development cycle, best survival rate of the young, and the most adaptive feeding habits of most of the roaches. Because of this "high reproductive potential" they have a greater ability to develop resistance against insecticides.

The technology of the pest control market has switched to an integrated pest management like baiting ,dusting, and the use of insect growth regulators and pheromone traps against the German roach....as opposed to just using a residual or contact insecticide either in an aerosol form or liquid form.

However in restaurants...you may have to still spray with a residual insecticide...we encourage you to call us for recommendations, in that we have had a long history of helping restaurants solve their problem, but needs to be handled on a individual basis.

The products we recommend have not had a resistant problem.

APPEARANCE
Adults are 1/2 inch- 5/8 inch long, light to medium brown with 2 dark distinctive stripes behind the head. The young (nymphs) are wingless, smaller and much darker in color, with a light stripe on their backs.

DIET
Will eat anything, will stay close to food and water source.

HABITS AND BIOLOGY
Females produce one egg capsule every 3-4 weeks. Each capsule contains 25-45 eggs. The female will carry the egg capsule with her until it is ready to hatch. The young(nymphs) will be able to breed in as little as 36 days. Adult German roaches can live up to one year These roaches are mostly active at night .If they are seen during the day, it is usually because their hiding places are overcrowded due to a large population or there is a shortage of food and water supply.

Infestations are generally found in kitchens and bathrooms, but can inhabit other areas if there is a heavy population or you have run them into each other with the repellent effect of insecticides.