Eliminating Cockroaches For Good: A Comprehensive Approach For Roseville Homes

Cockroach elimination involves many stages. It begins with uncovering the warning signs of cockroach activity. The cockroaches in Roseville are sneaky pests, so it's possible to have a lot of them and not realize it. In this article, we'll tell you how to find those signs, what cockroaches do inside your house, and the control methods used by the experts at Neighborly Pest Management. 

We're happy to demonstrate our cockroach-control methods if you want to see them in action. We're here to assist you with all your pest control needs, including advanced cockroach control in Roseville. You can reach us anytime by phone, text, or email. Our residential pest control page provides more information about our services. 

Visible Signs Of Roaches: How To Identify An Infestation

You might think that seeing a cockroach in your Roseville home is how you detect cockroaches. While you can certainly wait to spot one, we don't recommend it. Cockroaches can impact your health and damage your belongings. Let's quickly examine a few ways you can detect cockroach activity:

• Holes: It is not commonly understood, but cockroaches eat paper products. They are particularly attracted to paper that has had contact with food, such as a pizza box. But you may find damage in other ways. For example, deterioration of wallpaper is a sign that cockroaches are feeding on it. There are additional pests that can damage paper products, so this isn't a perfect sign. But it is a helpful early sign.
• Black Pepper: Cockroaches leave droppings as they move about inside your home. First, you'll have to search for droppings. Look in dark, damp spaces, or tight spaces. Cockroach droppings often look like grains of pepper. You may also see fecal spotting on fabrics.
• Hollow Roaches: If you find a cockroach, but there is no roach inside the skin, you've found a shed exoskeleton. Finding a whole skin is a good sign. Cockroaches feed on shed skins. If you only have a few roaches, they may have more skins than they need to fill their bellies. Therefore, this is an early warning sign. Finding tiny fragments of shed skins is a sign you'll find as an infestation grows. 
• Brown Pouches: Cockroaches lay pouches with eggs inside. A single pouch can contain 10 to 50 eggs, depending on the species. When you find one pouch hidden in a dark space, you're seeing an early sign. When you see a few broken pouches, that's a sign of a cockroach infestation starting to get bad. But the sign you hope to catch is a cockroach with a pouch sticking out of her abdomen. Some species carry their eggs. If you catch and remove that roach, you may also remove what could have been an infestation.  
• Live Roaches: When inspecting your home, you may see live cockroaches. You just have to know where to look. Some common locations cockroaches hide are under appliances, in drop-down ceilings, around boilers, under insulation, and inside storage boxes. Use a flashlight to look in cracks and holes or underneath objects.

When you find cockroaches in your house, you must understand the problems they bring. This knowledge should motivate you to take steps to reduce the threat to your health and belongings by removing the factors that make cockroaches want to live with you.