It is impossible to guarantee that you will ever "permanently" rid your home of roaches. Roaches are naturally occurring in nature and, therefore, will always be all around your home. Preventing the roaches from coming into your home requires constant…
It doesn't take long for roaches to completely infest a house. It depends slightly on the type of roach, but German roaches, for example, breed very rapidly. These roaches will reproduce about every 6 weeks and will produce about 40…
The sooner you start, the sooner you will get rid of these nasty insects. Performing a treatment that is a combination of residual insecticides and baits delivers the fastest-lasting results. It is not good enough to simply kill a few…
Generally, yes. It would be very rare and very unlikely that you could ever have just one roach. Roaches are social insects and prefer to be around each other. In addition, roaches breed rapidly, so most likely the roach you…
The answer to this is almost certainly YES. It is rare that the roach you see is the only roach around. Roaches are excellent hiders, and therefore, they can infest a house without the occupant even knowing about their presence.…
This is a little inconclusive. Roaches do release an aggregation pheromone that attracts other roaches, but whether or not any of this lingers on a dead roach is inconclusive. Roaches have amazing survival instincts and will likely avoid other dead…
Most people do not want cockroaches as pets. So, unless you are one of the very few people that want to raise cockroaches as a pet, I would eliminate them. In addition to being considered a very disgusting insect, cockroaches…
The most likely answer is not that you suddenly have roaches, but that you are just now noticing that you have roaches. Roaches will quietly grow their populations in cracks and crevices and remain totally hidden. Then, as their population…
It is definitely a horrible thought and is a frequently asked question, but yes, roaches can crawl up and out of a drain. Regularly used drains will be less frequently used by roaches. However, drains that have a lot of…
It is very unlikely that you would only have one roach in your house. First of all, where did the roach come from? It probably had a parent and siblings. Where are they? Roaches are expert hiders, and so it…
