Keeping Cockroaches at bay
Picking up a thong as defence against these creepy crawling and sometimes flying pests isn’t always the solution to keeping them at bay.
In Australia, the three main types are the German, Australian and American Cockroach and they most commonly hang out near rubbish, food scraps, dirty benches and tables, drains, behind stoves and fridges, bathroom and kitchen cupboards, under floors of older houses, septic tanks and leach drains.
Like flies, cockroaches carry many disease-causing germs such as Salmonellosis, Shigellosis being bacterial and Gastroenteritis and Hepatitis A, being viral infections.
All of the suggestions we’ve mentioned to control flies will also help control cockroaches, however, there are other kinds of actions which can be taken to keep cockroaches away from living areas.
For example:
- keep food in containers which have tightly fitting lids
- store food handling equipment and containers up off the floor
- where possible, fill in small cracks and crevices (holes), in which cockroaches could hide. It is especially important to fill in cracks and crevices around pipes in walls
- clean shelves and inside and underneath cupboards regularly. This will reduce the build-up of food particles
- when required, apply a low toxicity liquid or gel insecticide to those areas where cockroaches may hide, especially cracks and crevices inside and around the outside of buildings, behind stoves and fridges and underneath the shelves of cupboards. There are many suitable insecticides that can be used to effectively control cockroaches. Before insecticides are used, people should be encouraged to regularly clean in and around their houses to reduce the cockroaches’ food source.
Using Terminator High Performance Crawling Insect Killer Dual Action Surface Spray is another recommended method to control crawling insects in your home.
