The methods used by pest control professionals to exterminate cockroaches have evolved through time. Monthly baseboard spray applications are now gone, as are long-term residual pesticides. Cockroach exterminators now have various tools to permanently eradicate cockroaches in your home or office, such as bait guns, high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuums, and eco-friendly insecticides. Here are some methods your pest control contractor will use to combat a cockroach infestation.
Cockroach Baits
Cockroach baits are frequently sold in the form of bait stations and are readily available in supermarkets. Cockroach baits are designed to eradicate the whole cockroach population that has taken up residence in your home or property. The poison in the bait stations attracts roaches. When a cockroach consumes the poison, it returns to the colony and spreads it through its feces, which other cockroaches consume.
Cockroach baits have various degrees of success. They’re typically slow, and it can take longer for the poison to permeate through the colony than it does for the cockroaches to reproduce, rendering the poison useless.
HEPA Vacuuming
For severe cockroach infestations, your pest control professional will most likely vacuum many roaches at once before applying bait or insecticide. If you choose this option, ensure that a professional exterminator uses a HEPA vacuum to prevent the spread of cockroach allergies throughout your home or office.
Insecticide Dusts
In addition to baits, pesticide dust is an excellent supplement to a cockroach treatment strategy since it may treat practically all surfaces within a hidden void where cockroaches may migrate or reside. If you have children or pets and are concerned about contact or ingestion, speak with your pest control professional about environmentally friendly alternatives that are safe to use around children and animals.
Gel Bait
Gel baits are one of the most effective methods of cockroach control. This explains their widespread use by pest control professionals. These gels contain several insecticides and come in a convenient syringe. This syringe makes it simple to administer small amounts of the gel to areas where roaches hide, such as cracks and crevices. The roaches will consume the gel bait and perish shortly after that.
Once the insecticide has poisoned a cockroach, numerous additional roaches will feed on the bodies of the dead roaches and become poisoned. This process will continue until numerous generations are extinct.
Tent fumigation
Tent fumigation is often employed as a last option when roach infestations become severe. The chemicals used in fumigation are those effective against cockroaches and their eggs because they are so potent and will reach everywhere, even the cracks and crevices.
However, fumigation can be toxic to humans and pets. Thus it is often employed as a strategy against severe cockroach infestations when all other options are exhausted. After fumigation, you should leave at least 1-7 days before moving back home.
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