Roaches are a year-round problem in Austin, mostly due to our hot and humid weather that provides the perfect breeding ground for these hazardous, unwanted insects. The most common cockroaches found in Texas include:
Given that cockroaches survive on many different food options inside a home or office, the key is to make getting inside in the first place as difficult as possible. Then, in case they get inside, make the interior less attractive for cockroaches, so they are less likely to thrive indoors.
Things that you can do to make your home or office less accessible and inviting to cockroaches:
Cockroaches are generally omnivorous and will feed on most pet food and human foods such as bread and fruit. Therefore, human habitations very attractive. Roaches also eat things like paper, glue, hair, skin cells, and dead insects.
Some species of cockroach can last for up to a month without food. Their wide range of foods and tolerance to survive for long periods without food make them challenging to manage.
Cockroaches generally live one to four years. Females lay eggs in egg cases (ootheca’s) with approximately thirty to forty eggs in a single egg case.
And she can do this around eight times in her lifetime, meaning a single female can produce three hundred to four hundred offspring in her lifetime!
Roaches passively transport pathogenic microbes on their body surfaces, linking them to sometimes dangerous allergic reactions in humans. They also carry bacteria and disease. All of these factors make cockroaches a visitor that you do not want in your business or home!
Outside, cockroaches prefer living in leaf litter, rotting wood, holes in tree stumps, cavities under living tree bark, log piles, and debris piles.
However, they also prefer warm and moist environments. You’ll find roaches inside living near water sources like bathrooms, laundry rooms, and kitchens.
Roof gutters with leaves in them are a common external harborage area for cockroaches. They are nocturnal and prefer dark areas to shelter, often scuttling away when exposed to light, such as outdoor lighting.
They are sociable insects. Thus, they are often found in high numbers, especially when conditions are favorable.
Cockroaches have an uncanny ability to get inside homes and buildings. Entry points include:
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There is little consolation when seeing a large cockroach inside your space, but a single large one is a better sighting than small ones. A bigger cockroach could have just flown in and is yet to get established.
When you see several small cockroaches, it’s a lot more concerning. It indicates the roaches have established themselves inside your home or commercial building, and successful breeding is underway.
If you have an issue with cockroaches in your Austin office or home, let one of the professional pest control technicians at YardDoc help manage it.
YardDoc can help with your other pest control needs, for ants (carpenter ants), asian beetles, crickets, earwigs, termites (drywood and subterranean), scorpions, spiders, wasps, millipedes, and grubs. We set mosquito traps for mosquitoes, and keep urban wildlife at bay, too.
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