Household pests like rodents, bed bugs, termites, etc. are very common. But among those, the pest that is most common is the cockroach. They enter your house in search of food and shelter and if they get them, they won’t leave. They are very good at hiding and usually live in cracks and crevices of the house. Finding a cockroach infestation on your property can be terrifying and annoying. These pests are well-known carriers of some deadly serious diseases such as cholera, typhoid, diarrhoea, etc., along with other allergies.
Cockroaches release a pungent, musty, and disgusting scent, which is unnoticeable at the start but can be overpowering as their number increases. Even if your food has a musty cockroach odour, throw it away, because cooking contaminated food also doesn’t make it safe to consume. And the fact is cockroaches multiply alarmingly. Only one or two cockroaches will become millions within a span of just one year. Before you recognize it, you will be battling a heavy infestation. The best way to exterminate them is to take the help of professional cockroach control services in Hyderabad. So, here are the methods that exterminators use to kill these nasty pests:
· Get Bait Technique
Get bait is one of the most effective techniques to exterminate cockroaches, which is often used by professional pest control services in Hyderabad. The gels that are used are made of various insecticides, which are packaged in a handy syringe.
The syringe helps in applying the gel into all those areas where cockroaches lurk, including cracks and crevices. When the cockroaches eat this gel bait, they will die.
One of the best things about the gel bait technique is that, with proper insecticide, it can kill a lot of cockroaches of several generations. As cockroaches feed on dead bodies and faeces, they can pass the insecticide to other living cockroaches, and thus killing a ton of them.
· Tent Fumigation Technique
Tent fumigation is another technique to kill cockroaches, but it is not 100% effective. In this method, the whole house would be sealed, just like a tent, and then fumes having warning agents will be released into it. The professional exterminators will tell you how much time it will take for the whole process and when it is safe to enter the home.
Though the fumes have the potential to kill any cockroach it comes across, this methods have some limitations. Cockroaches when hiding in cracks, where fumes cannot enter, can be safe. So, the remaining cockroaches can still reproduce and multiply quickly.
Tent fumigation takes a few hours to get completed. While many drawbacks are there, one of the huge advantages it has is, with fumigation technique, not only cockroaches are killed, but also other pests like rodents, termites, bed bugs, etc. who come in contact with the fumes are also killed.
Chemicals Used for Cockroach Control:
These are the chemicals or insecticides used by professional exterminators to kill the cockroaches:
· Boric Acid:
Boric acid is the most common chemicals used for cockroach extermination. The boric acid is often used as dust that is sprinkled over the surfaces and inserted into the cracks and crevices where cockroaches hide.
When the roaches crawl in these cracks, they get the boric acid on them and ingest it while preening their antennae and legs. As the boric acid is effective till its dry, it is one of the best solutions for long-term cockroach control.
· Hydramethylnon
This chemical is used in the gel bait technique to kill the roaches. This takes effect when it is injected inside the roach. When a roach eats the bait with this chemical, the metabolism process, and energy production of the roach is disrupted, causing its death. This insecticide is proved highly effective against German cockroaches.
· Indoxacarb
Indoxacarb is an insecticide that is used by professional exterminators to kill cockroaches. The chemical is given as gel bait to the roaches. Once it is eaten, the roach will immediately die. Also, when live roaches feed on those dead roaches, this insecticide is also transferred to them, and eventually, they also die. This insecticide is highly effective and has the potential to kill up to three generations of cockroaches.