We hate cockroaches but we have to admire the resourcefulness of these shriek-inducing insects. It doesn’t matter how often you clean your house or if you diligently sprayed insecticide and strategically placed cockroach-killing chalk in key areas.
They will keep coming back and make your home their own.
So why do you have cockroaches in your home? More importantly, how can you get rid of them for good?
Enter The Cockroach: 7 Ways Cockroaches Trespass Your Property
The misconception is that cockroaches prefer to infest dirty houses. Cockroaches aren’t discerning creatures. You could live in a palatial mansion and still be at risk of roach infestation.
In fact, we’ve shared the real-life story of a “survivor” of roach home-infestation after this section.
Cockroaches don’t choose where to live.
Cockroaches breed and infest areas they find themselves in.
And they breed very fast!
In the Philippines, the most common types of cockroaches are the German Cockroach and the American Cockroach.
The German Cockroach can produce as many as 300,000 offspring every year. In contrast, the American Cockroach can hatch a comparatively smaller 800 cockroaches per year.
If you don’t eliminate these cockroaches, the way they reproduce, you can easily have a roach infestation problem in your home. You don’t want this because cockroaches carry a variety of deadly diseases.
We will discuss the types of deadly diseases you can get from cockroaches in a future article.
For now, let’s find out the 7 ways these sneaky insects are able to trespass your property.
1. Cracks In The Walls
Cockroaches can enter through cracks and holes that are as small as 1/16th of an inch wide.
From there, they can look for hiding places where they can feast on anything – paper, wood, dead skin, food debris, and other insects until they grow big and nasty.
2. Common Entry Points
You may not have noticed them, but there are tiny cockroaches hiding underneath the back sliding door or the welcome mat out in front of your home. Cockroaches are opportunistic creatures. All they need is one opening and they’ll make their way inside your home.
3. Cardboard Boxes and Newspapers
If you brought in supplies via cardboard or balikbayan boxes and covered some of the items in old newspapers, you may have unknowingly brought in cockroaches to your home.
Why do cockroaches love cardboard boxes and paper?
Cockroaches release chemical pheromones that enable them to communicate with one another. These pheromones are easily absorbed by paper materials.
4. Drains and Pipes
Although this is more of a problem for those who live in apartments and condominium units where drains and pipelines function like highways within the complex, cockroaches can still use these systems to enter your house.
For sure, there were times you saw cockroaches coming out of your kitchen sink or the floor drain.
5. Clothing and Baggage
Be careful when you leave your bags in damp places such as the locker room or the gym floor. Cockroaches like to hide in dark and damp places. In most cases, the female cockroach lays her eggs inside bags.
Aside from your dirty clothes, you might be bringing roach eggs home with you. Always keep your bags tightly closed. That includes pockets and side pouches.
6. Wooden Materials
Cockroaches like to nestle inside wood – they also like to eat it. If you’re bringing home bundles of wood for construction or arts and crafts, you may also be bringing hitchhiking cockroaches into your home.
7. Pet Food
If you don’t tightly close your pet’s bag of treats, a few unwanted creatures might help themselves to free food.
We recommend storing pet food in a clean and dry pantry and keeping it on the top shelving tier. Never leave pet food – even when sealed shut – on the floor.
True Story: Why Traditional Roach-Killing Methods Don’t Work
In 2013, I moved to a residence in one of the exclusive villages in Alabang, Muntinlupa.
Every time I opened the light in the dining room to get a glass of water, the kitchen counter would be swarming with cockroaches. It was a scene out of a Wes Craven horror movie except that the roaches didn’t eat human flesh.
They just spread deadly bacteria.
We were emptying a spray bottle of THAT popular insecticide every week. We’d end up sweeping several dead bodies every morning – but they still appeared in droves.
In every room.
The roaches even found a way inside our refrigerator!
Apparently, it was a long-running problem in the village. The association would schedule fogging fortnightly.
The following day, the driveway would look like a nuclear wasteland with thousands of dead and dying cockroaches on the floor. To enter the car, we had to use an umbrella because cockroaches were falling from trees.
But guess what?
The cockroaches survived and continued to thrive.
The reason why these strategies failed miserably is that they didn’t address the source.
To eliminate cockroaches, you have to destroy the source – the breeding ground.
How To Get Rid Of Cockroaches In Your Home
If spraying and using chalk don’t work and these are the tried and tested methods of getting rid of cockroaches in households – then what’s a better solution?
Why continue doing something that doesn’t work?
Put away the spray and the chalk. A better solution is to use ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel and ZAPS Whitefence.
ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel is made of Fipronil – a type of poison that’s been scientifically proven to be effective versus cockroaches because they cannot resist its taste. Once the cockroach ingests ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel, it will die right away
Cockroaches are known to eat dead cockroaches.
If the cockroach that was killed by ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel gets eaten by other roaches, they will absorb the poison and within a few minutes the group of cockroaches – or the intrusion – will start dying.
And the killing will continue as roaches eat other dead roaches!
ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel is packaged in a tube. Squeeze out a small amount of the gel into cracks or holes in the wall, on small flat containers that can be placed under the refrigerator, and in areas where roaches are frequently seen.
ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel is so powerful that It’s better to use a small amount of the gel in several places than to use large amounts of the gel in a few places.
ZAPS Whitefence is a product that was described by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as “novel” or unique.
There’s nothing like ZAPS Whitefence in the market!
ZAPS Whitefence acts as the primary line of defense for your home. Simply spray the foam at entry points – the front door, sliding door, and window sills – to create a “white fence”.
Cockroaches that enter the white fence get trapped and die within a few seconds. The same goes for ants, spiders, and other insects that are making their way inside of your home.
Another unique feature of ZAPS Whitefence is that it will vanish naturally within 2 weeks but will not lose its potency.
Conclusion
Scientists say cockroaches are the only creatures that will survive a nuclear holocaust.
Scientists have also discovered that cockroaches will not survive ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel and ZAPS Whitefence.
Forget the insecticide spray and chalk. They won’t solve the problem and will blow up your monthly household budget.
ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel and ZAPS Whitefence offer more effective long-term solutions to your roach problem. These products provide 2-stage protection for your family.
ZAPS Whitefence acts as the primary line of defense. Roaches that enter the white fence get trapped and die.
The roaches that are able to enter your home through cracks, boxes, your clothes and bags, pipes and drains, pet food, and wooden materials will get killed by ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel.
No need to spray noxious, migraine-inducing insecticides. No more messy chalk.
A single application of ZAPS Whitefence is good for 2 weeks.
A single application of ZAPS Ultra Prime Gel is good for up to 5 weeks. Replace the gel bait once it has been finished off by the cockroaches.
Protect your home and your loved ones. Kill thousands of cockroaches and keep thousands more outside your home while saving more money.
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