Entry
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Grocery, Packaging, Laundry, Sewage Pipes, drainage, air duct vents etc.
Ideal Environment
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Human habitats provide an ideal environment for the cockroaches, any eatables left in kitchen with preference to starch and sugar serves as food to them.
Types
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Over 3500 species are known but only four are found in our, homes. These species are: GERMAN, AMERICAN, ORIENTAL, BROWN BANDED.
Reproduction
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4 to 8 eggs casefemale with 30 to 40 eggs per oothica, nymph to adult-60 days and after attaining sexual maturity, 50% population is female, a single female can produce almost 1, 00, 000 young ones in a year.
Damages Caused
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DYSENTRY, DIARRHOEA, GASTROENTERITIS TYPHOID, CHOLERA, PNEUMONIA, DIPTHERIA TUBERCULOSIS. LEPROSY, HEPATIS.
Preventive measures
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ENVIRONMENT MODIFICATION-DENY FOOD, WATER AND SHELTER to cockroaches by keeping surroundings clean and properly dispose off the garbage.
Treatment
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Sprays, Herbal Gel and smokers