COCKROACHES

Cockroaches can survive without food for up to a month and can survive on bindings of books, glue, furniture, soap, and other household items. They can contaminate your food and increase asthma in children. 

Pest-A-Rest Exterminating Co offers practical solutions for ridding your home or business of roaches. Like bed bugs, roaches are unknowingly brought into our homes. They can burrow in grocery bags or jump into briefcases from your work.  Cockroaches are slim and can access your home through small cracks in your rook or walls, roof and laundry vents, and up your plumbing and sewer drains. These are places that most people don’t think about when trying to kill roaches on their own. Yet, the best defense against cockroaches is to prevent them from your home in the first place by keeping your kitchen and garbage areas clean. In some cases, where large infestations are involved, cleaning alone may not entirely solve the problem. 

Effective cockroach control requires a thorough extermination and improving your environment to prevent their return. Cockroaches truly are survival experts. They actually thrive in unsavory conditions. Their ability to quickly access areas that we humans cannot, or will not, makes the cockroach a difficult adversary. This is also the main reason most Do-It-Yourself roach control products are much less effective than advertised. Professional treatments are the most effective solution available to both homes and businesses. 

Signs of an Infestation: 

• Cockroaches seen during the day 
• Presence of cockroach feces 
• Strong oily or musty odor 
• Bodies of dead cockroaches 
• Sight of oval-shaped egg cases 
• Cast skins 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT COCKROACH CONTROL? 

Q.  HOW SERIOUS IS YOUR COCKROACH PROBLEM? 

A.  Cockroaches love to live virtually anywhere food is located. These nocturnal insects tend to live close to a food source and feed at night, and prefer building a home in dark and moist places. They can easily fit through narrow areas and into parts of homes and businesses not often seen without being detected. This can result in large population growth of cockroaches under your nose without knowing it. Before long it becomes possible there is an overwhelming invasion of roaches on your property.  

Q.  COMMON COCKROACH DAMAGE? 

A.  Contamination of food and eating utensils Production of unpleasant odor Transmission of bacteria to the food we consume, causing food poisoning Capable of transmitting disease-causing organisms such as Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., hepatitis virus, coliform bacteria, and implicated in the spread of typhoid and dysentery Source of allergens and risk for asthma among some populations.  

Q.  WHERE DO COCKROACHES LIVE AND BREED? 

A.  A home is a perfect environment for cockroaches. They have access to warmth, water and food along with plenty of places to hide a nest. This is where cockroaches can wreak havoc on your property because unchecked, roaches will multiply without you even being aware of it. This is why it is so important to take professional action at the first site of cockroaches in your home or business.  This is extremely important for businesses. If your business is food processing and service, pharmaceutical manufacturing, any sort of hospitality you need to keep roaches out. Preventive Pest Control helps protect your business from pest threats. Our ongoing pest management service discreetly exterminates pest issues you have now and helps prevent pest issues in the future.  

Q.  SHOULD I HIRE A PROFESSIONAL OR DO IT MYSELF? 

A.  Hire a professional.  Contact us today for a free estimate. Our team of experts recommends a variety of insect baits as well as a number of sprays to help you combat a potential roach infestation.