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In many Poquoson homes and businesses, the cockroach is the unwelcome pest that is most annoying. There are several varieties that inhabit our area, and each has its own set of behaviors. There's no one solution that gets rid of all of them.
If you spot cockroaches in your home or business, bring in the experts from Mares Exterminating. We have over 20 years of experience in identifying cockroaches and removing them with effective solutions tailored to their habits. Call us today for your free consultation.
If we could offer one bit of advice to all our clients, it would be to keep your homes and businesses clean, clean, clean. The main thing that a cockroach or any insect is looking for is food, and most insects will eat exactly the same things that humans eat.
When you use sealed storage containers and clean up spills and crumbs carefully, you deprive insects of their main reason to enter your home. Be sure to clean under, behind, inside, and around any areas that may accumulate food particles that bugs find delicious.
The second bit of advice we'd offer is to keep the insects out of your home by sealing any means of entry that you can find. After food, the thing insects and rodents seek most often is a warm place to live. If you use putty, plastic wood, caulk, sealants, and other appropriate materials to close up the gaps and cracks, pests will go elsewhere.
In our area, there are four main types of cockroaches.
American Cockroaches
Brown-Banded Cockroaches
German Cockroaches
Oriental Cockroaches (Water Bugs)
Water bugs are a type of roach that favors cooler damp areas more than most other roaches do. You may find them under floors, inside walls, and in basements, cellars, or crawl spaces where there are drains or leaky pipes. They may also be found under refrigerators, sinks, and washing machines.
When they live outdoors, they're usually found under decomposing leaves or in mulch beds. In the spring and fall, there may be a mass migration of Oriental cockroaches into your building, although they're more likely than other roaches to remain outside or in an unheated building during the winter.
Their diet is primarily decaying organic matter.
Oriental cockroaches are shiny and black, and they're larger than many other common roaches. Females average 1¼ inches, while males are about an inch long and more slender. Both sexes have non-functional wings. The nymphs are darker than the adults and similarly shaped and wingless. Their egg cases are the largest of the common cockroaches — they're about an inch in size and resemble a small, dark reddish-brown ladies' handbag.
Water bugs are most active during the late spring and early summer, and they tend to be more sluggish than other roaches. They stick to dark, damp places, so you are unlikely to find them in upper floors, on walls, or in cabinets. They can live for a month without food if they have access to water, but they will die in two weeks if they cannot get water.
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