Just the sight of one of these multi-legged, hard-shelled visitors crawling across the floor is enough to make your toes curl, and your screams can hit high notes you didn’t realize were possible. But what are you dealing with?
Roaches are a large, disgusting insect, with six legs, and 18 knee joints. (We were sure you’d want to know that.) There are more than 5,000 species in the world, but the most common are the German cockroach, and the American cockroach.
Initially cockroaches may infest your home from the outside, finding cracks, gaps under doors, and other ways to enter the home, attracted by warmth, darkness, and spoiling food or standing water, in things like open garbage pails, unwashed dishes. As big as they may seem, a cockroach can insinuate itself through an opening as thin as a dime when young, or a quarter as an adult. They don’t like light, which is why many homeowners can’t believe it when the cat or dog presents them with the remains of their latest victim. But you can’t depend on your pets to control the population.
The first measure in getting rid of cockroaches is hygiene. If you have stored vegetables that are rotting, open containers of food in cupboards, or unsecured garbage pails, remove all refuse and replace containers with those that seal tightly. Check under appliances, in cupboards, basement corners, and other dark places for traces of a black gritty dirt that has an oily appearance. This is roach feces and a sign that you do have a problem.
Once your home is cleaned, your choices in removing them are to do it yourself, or to have the home professionally treated by a pest control company. Which you choose, may depend on the severity of the infestation. The primary means of destroying roaches are contact poisons/sprays, and residual sprays which leave time released ingredients in your cupboards and on the surfaces where sprayed, that will work over a period of 2-3 weeks. There are also the infamous roach motels that can be placed in your cupboards. Sometimes it may take a combination of several methods, such as an immediate contact kill substance, and then roach motels in places where you have evidence of previous inhabitants. Once your immediate problem is eliminated, you can also take preventative measures, such as sprinkling powdered boric acid in between walls, and around foundations where they may have entered the house. This is generally a safe product, and will be carried on the roaches feet, to wherever they are hiding and breeding.
And one important note of caution for you: Pesticides can be highly toxic to humans and pets. Spray treatments for roach elimination should never be carried out without proper respiratory protection, and first removing of all food, pets and dishes or other items that your food may come in contact with.
By: Brenda H. Murphy
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January 31, 2009 at 11:16 am
Tips To Protect Your Family From Pesticides
Have you ever wiped out your lawn along with the weeds, figuring that if some lawn treatment was good, more would be better? Have you ever made a second trip to the store because the cleaning product you bought was not right for the job, or made a dash for fresh air after mixing two cleaning products?
If so, you already know that reading the label first on household chemicals such as pesticides can save you time, trouble and money.
What you may not realize is that most pesticides, while useful for the control of common home and garden pests, can be harmful if label directions are not followed. Eight out of 10 American households contain pesticides such as cockroach sprays and baits, flea and tick sprays, weed killers, insect repellents and products that kill mold and mildew. However, many people fail to read product labels, which contain important information about use, storage, first aid and disposal of these potentially toxic products.
In 2003, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported 69,000 incidents of children exposed to pesticides and another 26,000 cases of children exposed to household bleach. Here are simple steps the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends you take to protect your family from pesticide poisoning.
* Always store household chemicals out of children’s reach – preferably in a locked cabinet.
* Before applying pesticides or other household chemicals, remove children and their toys, as well as pets, from the area. Keep children and pets away until the pesticide has dried or as long as is recommended on the label.
* Read the label first. Pesticides can be dangerous or ineffective if too much or too little is used.
* If your use of a pesticide or other household chemical is interrupted, properly re-close the container and remove it from children’s reach.
* Never transfer pesticides to other containers that children may associate with food or drink, and never place rodent or insect baits where small children can get to them.
* When applying insect repellents to children, read all directions and do not apply over cuts, wounds or irritated skin or to eyes, mouth, hands or directly on the face.
* Clean floors and wash children’s hands, toys and bottles regularly. Have family members leave their shoes at the door to avoid tracking in dirt and pesticide residues.
* Scrub all fresh fruits and vegetables under running water or peel when possible. Consider buying organic produce or other products grown with minimal use of pesticides.
By: Richard Lewis
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