Cockroaches and other insect infestation are a common problem in new homes because of the development of the land around the community. Workers and their eating habits also contribute to cockroach infestation of new homes. This is because workers often leave open containers of trash and left over food through out the house during the various construction phases.

Once these insects breed, they multiply in number, causing bad odor and structural damage, wherever they live. They can easily infest your stored food and even clothing and the result is a very bad living environment. Large cockroach infestation is known to cause health problems such as allergies, asthma and other bronchial disorders. Cockroaches are known to carry bacteria and other disease carrying organisms with them.

If you notice your living environment being infested by cockroaches, you need to take immediate action by calling a professional pest control service.

You can judge if a cockroach elimination service is professional, if their approach to extermination is holistic and if they emphasize on following less toxic methods for eliminating the problem. The first step that a professional cockroach elimination service will carry out is to find which species of cockroach has infested your living environment as this is a major factor that helps to decide on the control method to follow. Elimination Service Professionals are aware of the nature and working of these species and will apply the least toxic method to remove them.

While calling a cockroach elimination services will help, there are steps that you can take to prevent them from even coming into your house. You can block up their source of entry. Here is a look at some common sources of entry that are mostly unnoticed:

• Dry Drain Traps are quick entry points for cockroaches. You can avoid this by running water in unused bathrooms and toilets that connect to these drains on a regular basis.

• Packaged food purchased from cockroach infested locations can bring the problem into your living environment.

• Empty out indoor trash containers regularly and keep them clean on the inside and the outside.

• Wash dishes immediately after meals because cockroaches will get attracted to residue food lying around dishes.

• Regularly vacuum up areas where people sit down to eat because such areas will be frequented by cockroach for food smell and food particles.

• Eliminate hiding places in your home by picking up paper, lumber, and other debris next to your home.

• Make sure to keep trash and firewood/lumber stacks away from the house.

The technicians, researchers and everyone else involved in cockroach control need to care and not be satisfied with anything less than total elimination. (3/3/2008) Austin Frishman

Too often I heard a complacent “researcher” at a comfortable university state they are happy to report that XYZ performed at an 85 percent or 90 percent level. How can you be happy with leaving some cockroaches? We must — and can — go to l00 percent elimination of existing population. New ones may enter, but can be prevented from re-establishing. Even in public housing, this is important. The technicians, researchers and everyone else involved in cockroach control need to care and not be satisfied with anything less than total elimination. Here are just a few important reasons why:

1. We now know that the persist ant presence of cockroaches in confined living quarters can result in increased, severe asthmatic attacks. In some areas, asthma is the primary reason why a child misses school.
2. In poorer neighborhoods, I have witnessed children and adults believing that they “deserve” cockroaches. Their life and surroundings are in misery. They have given up. The least we can do is remove one burden from their lives.
3. Physical abuse by cockroaches, both the larger peridomestic and smaller German cockroaches, does occur. Bites on the body, chewing off of eyebrows and feeding on body sores or eye mucus are more common than we like to think about.
4. When cockroach numbers are high, they turn cannibalistic on whatever there is to eat. Crawling into an ear and requiring surgery to remove them does occur, but it is a accidental invasion. Feeding on sores and eyebrows is not accidental. It is intentional.
5. Knocking out smoke detectors, setting off mouse snap traps, dropping a computer, defacing photos, curtains, walls, etc., occurs every day somewhere in this country as a result of a cockroach infestation.
6. We are all aware of a new highly resistant strain of Staphylococcus. It is nicknamed MRSA, short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It is most prevalent in nursing homes and healthcare surroundings.What does this have to do with cockroaches? Back in l980, I co-authored a paper in the Journal of Environmental Health. Our publication verified that both American and German cockroaches are capable of carrying Staphylococcus. Because pest management professionals (PMPs) search out cockroaches and touch contaminated surfaces, it is a very wise idea to wear chemical-resistant gloves when doing inspections and treatments. With an increase in cockroaches comes the increase of the spread to people. As a side note, veterinarians are reporting that persons who take their pet dog to nursing homes for pet therapy are at an increased risk of contacting MRSA. The dog picks it up from the care center, shows signs of sores on its body, and transmits the MRSA over to family members.

Grain beetles, Grain wevils, as well as moths and their larvae are frequent pantry pests. You usually get them from the grocery store. They thrive in pet food, and bulk foods. Some of them can chew through some of the plastic wrappings. There are non toxic methods of getting rid of them, including freezing, repackaging and vaccuming and certain traps.

Your natural organic residential and commercial Ant, Rodent, Wasp, Hornet, Grain Beetle, Bats, and more. Pest Control and elimination experts. Serving Portland Oregon and the surrounding areas.

Nature First Pest Control

Telephone
503-579-3680