You probably have your own reasons for not wanting to see cockroaches scuttle across your floor. If you’re not sure you care though, you probably should. Aside from the fact that it’s fairly disgusting to have a house full of cockroaches, keeping the population to a minimum is a must for health reasons. Cockroaches can cause allergies and trigger a variety of breathing problems, including asthma attacks. What’s more, they can spread disease and bacteria at an alarming rate. Here are a few more facts about these disgusting pests.

  • Cockroaches Cockroach-in-homecan get in your home almost anywhere. They can come through cracks and crevices you didn’t even know existed. They can crawl in through vents or drain pipes or you could even bring them in through a box or a grocery bag without knowing it. If you regularly buy used merchandise through thrift stores or garage sales, they can come in with that merchandise as well.
  • Cockroaches need just three things to survive: food, water, and shelter. That makes your home and lots of spots on your property the ideal place to survive. Add a little warmth to the equation, and you could have cockroaches that are active throughout the year.
  • Cockroaches reproduce very quickly. Each egg capsule, depending on the type of cockroach, could contain as many as 12 young, and that means one female could have more than 800 babies in any given year.

Cockroaches work at night, so seeing a single one could mean there is a much larger population nearby. Your best bet if you think you have a cockroach problem on your hands is to contact a professional pest control company like Slug-A-Bug immediately to help you deal with the problem.