Facts about Cockroaches
FACTS:
- Cockroaches spread many diseases.
- They carry a large range of bacteria, viruses, and worms that are dangerous to people and pets.
- They are unsightly, and they often do major damage to electrical appliances.
- Their droppings contaminate food, cause allergies, and are thought to trigger asthma attacks.
- They can feed on a finger print left on a glass, or the spittle left on a phone.
- They will eat nearly anything; soap, hair, skin, your precious wine labels, their own droppings, and each other.
- They feed by vomiting up pre-digestive juices onto their food to soften it first, then they... well, do you really want to know? (Imagine a thick shake... yuk!).
- When people get food poisoning from salmonella bacteria, it is often the dirty rotten cockroach that delivered the germs.
Facts or Myth? Can you tell?
- If you see one cockroach there are always 100 more where it came from... myth. But it is true sometimes.
- If you see cockroaches in your kitchen every day, or at night when you turn on the light, you have a real problem... fact.
- Cockroaches clean themselves; therefore they are clean... myth.
- If your neighbour gets their cockroaches sprayed, they will all run into your house... myth.
- One cockroach egg case bought home inadvertently in your shopping, or in your handbag from work, can produce over 1 million cockroaches in just 1 year... fact.
- Being very clean will stop you having cockroaches... myth.
- Leaving food around and not cleaning will encourage cockroaches... fact.
- Electronic cockroach control systems actually work... myth / big con-job!
- Leaving pet food out overnight encourages cockroaches... fact.
- All pest control treatments are the same... myth.