Cockroaches
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When the weather turns cold, insects like cockroaches, start looking for places where they can find warmth and over-winter. They find cracks in concrete, crawl underneath doorways, enter through windows, or crawl through pipes, sewers or other means to get inside homes and buildings. They crawl into the walls and set up their nests and then start looking for food.
Cockroaches in winter are most likely going to be found in the kitchen and surrounding areas. This is because they are looking for food. Roaches are opportunistic eaters and omnivores. This means they will eat just about anything. Roaches are looking for food high in proteins and nutrients which will give them the energy they need to breed and produce offspring.
Roaches breed fast, laying up to 30 - 40 eggs at a time. This means they are constantly going to search your home for food. However, the pests are also sneaky and know how to hide. So, they hide under sinks, within cabinets and behind kitchen counters where they can easily sneak out at night, find any food left out on the counters on crumbs on the floor, and scurry back to their hidey-hole.
So, the moment your heater kicks on and you turn your home into a climate resembling spring or summer, any cockroaches which have found their way inside the walls, or the kitchen, will think it is spring or summer and come out looking for food.
Cockroach Prevention Strategies
Early detection and prevention of cockroaches is key to preventing winter roaches from emerging. You need to make your home as sealed and unattractive to cockroaches as possible. Any scrap of food is a possible attractant to a cockroach that has found its way inside your home.
It takes some work to seal off your home, but you can do the following:
Seal up food on the counters – use Tupperware and plastic containers that lock up tight and keep roaches and other insects out.
Put food in the fridge, if it needs to be kept cold, put it in the fridge and make sure the fridge is sealed up so insects cannot get inside. Don’t leave food out on the counter uncovered.
Clean dishes and put them away, don’t stack the sink or the kitchen counter with dirty dishes. Just a few crumbs of food, ketchup or anything else left on the plate is enough to attract roaches.
Clean counters and surfaces on which you put food – wipe down the counters around your kitchen. Keep it free from crumbs. Empty out the crumb tray for the toaster, too, and anything else where even the smallest scrap of food might lay.
Wash the floors, if you have tiles in the kitchen, it can easily get dirty with things dropped while cooking. Mop floors and wipe them down with cleaners often and keep food off the floor.
Put away dishes and store pots properly, dishes and pots need to be stored in places where roaches cannot reach. If you store put upside down, roaches cannot get inside to the surfaces where you cook food. The same can be said of bowls and dishes.
Remove kitchen waste quickly, cockroaches are not picky about what they’ll eat. They will gladly devour food scraps or rotten food you’ve tossed into the waste bin.
Vacuum, make sure you vacuum up dirt and food particles that get caught in the carpets and on floors. Empty out the vacuum bags, too.
Seal up the house, Are there holes or some way for anything outside to access the spaces between the exterior and interior walls? Are there pipes or wires with spaces around them leading from inside to outside? Spaces beneath doors, holes in screen doors or space beneath the garage door? All of that should be repaired and sealed up.
Plug up the drains, cockroaches are also known to get inside homes through bathtub drains. Use bathtub plugs to seal up those drains and prevent access to the bathroom and your home through that access point.
Get rid of clutter, cockroaches will nest in piles of clothes or paper, too. If you start stacking up debris and clutter, cockroaches could find warmth and a place to nest there.
Store pet food away,make sure pet food is sealed up tight in containers so roaches cannot access them.
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