German Cockroach Treatment Sydney – The One Pest That Makes Grown Adults Shudder
You have two forms of anger when you’ve opened that kitchen drawer at midnight and reached for the spoons and seen that small brown object scurries off in seventeen different directions before you realized it was even there:
- A) I’m really scared.
- B) That was a German cockroach and for everyone I see, there’s also hundreds more.
I know that’s not what you wanted or expected to hear but it’s the reality and it’s something that separates people who actually have a successful strategy for getting rid of German cockroaches from those who have been using surface spray for over a year and continue to experience a lack of success.
The Difference between German Cockroaches and Other Cockroaches
All cockroaches are not the same; the larger cockroaches that you sometimes find wandering into your home — Australian and American cockroaches, are a real pain but they are generally manageable. These insects are primarily outdoor insects and they accidentally find their way inside.
German cockroaches live in your kitchen. They live in warm, comfortable places such as behind the refrigerator motor; they live in and around your dishwasher; they also inhabit the hinges of your cabinet doors. They are not wandering into your kitchen from your backyard, they are making themselves at home in your house, and they’re not leaving.
German cockroaches reproduce fast enough to seem unfair for us. A single female German cockroach can produce an egg sac containing up to 40 eggs and produces one approximately every six weeks. So, if you do the maths on how many German cockroaches could reproduce before the average Sydney household becomes infested over a period of two or three months, you will realise that you will have an exceptionally large number of German cockroaches after three months.
Surface Spray Trapping
This is where most of the households in Sydney make the biggest mistake and face more problems than almost everyone else and honestly, I don’t blame people for this because once you see the cockroach and spray it, it dies, you think you have made progress.
However you have actually not made any progress at all with your surface sprays. Surface sprays can only kill the cockroaches that are already visible to us that are running across open surfaces. The German cockroach colony that is located deep inside your cabinets, behind your appliances and inside your walls can feel the insecticide residue, go even further into their harbourage and then wait until the spray breaks down (normally in a matter of days) before returning to their same location.
On top of that, because of the repeated use of surface sprays, the German cockroaches will build a resistance to them, which means you are teaching the cockroaches how to survive the insecticide that you are applying against them.
What Does Professional German Cockroach Treatment in Sydney Do?
A professional treatment applies gel bait to the harbourage (where German cockroaches nest and where they reproduce) areas, such as:
- Behind stove and refrigerator hinges
- Inside electrical outlet holes
- Under appliance motors
- In areas that are difficult to get to or would otherwise not be treated with a spray.
The gel bait works differently than the use of sprays. Cockroaches will consume the gel bait, return to the colony, and then spread the active ingredient throughout the entire colony via contact and through their droppings (other cockroaches will then consume the droppings). The gel bait targets the whole colony, rather than just the individuals that are running around on surfaces. Find rat control The Gables
In conjunction with the sealing of harbourage points via crack and crevice treatment, a professional German cockroach treatment in Sydney will not just reduce the number of cockroaches, but it will completely eliminate them from the property.
One treatment done correctly and professionally is more effective than an 18-month war with a can of spray.
