Types of cockroaches
The three most common types of cockroaches we come face to face with as we switch the light on at night have exotic, faraway-sounding names like the American cockroach, the German cockroach and the Oriental cockroach, (one wonders how they made it to our beautiful shores!), and one is just as terrifying as the next!
A little info about these three little (and not so little) monsters will help to identify just what you are dealing with:
American Cockroach
This is one of the biggest cockroaches in South Africa and it’s also the nasty red-brown gogga that can fly right into your face given the right temperatures! The American cockroach loves dark, humid spaces and is most at home in bathrooms, kitchens, roofs and basements.
Oriental Cockroach
These are those mostly dark brown or black little bugs you will find scuttling around in drains, basements and porches, and they particularly like rubbish tips and leafy litter that is just cool, dark and damp enough to appeal to their appetites.
German Cockroach
If you really have the courage to study these ugly critters, you will be able to identify them by the two big dark stripes at their pronotum (the plate that covers the surface of the thorax), but who really wants to put a cockroach under a microscope before calling in pest control!
The really, really bad news about cockroaches is that by the time you actually see one skulking around your home or business, they are already in the business of consolidating a growing population well out of your line of sight!
For every cockroach you use almost a whole can of pesticide on in an effort to kill, there are probably in the region of 200 to 300 waiting in line to take its place, and once established, nothing can expand quite as fast as a cockroach family!
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