How To Get Rid Of Cockroaches

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Hey Mike Withrow of pest control here and are you looking for an effective way to get rid of cockroaches well today’s
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video i’m going to go through a couple different quick pest control tips you can use to reduce cockroach numbers and
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get rid of cockroaches in your home so one thing that’s pretty gross right we don’t like cockroaches we don’t want
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them in our home our apartments so whether you’re a homeowner a business owner or a landlord or a tenant these
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are things that you don’t want right you don’t want to have cockroaches crawling all over your home so a couple different
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things you can do to really reduce their numbers the first thing that really keep in mind is that they’re gonna feed off
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different things like food sources like crumbs or oils or grease that you maybe leave on counters or your stovetop or
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again underneath appliances in between appliances so those are one thing that you should really focus on cleaning and
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make sure that you have that clean environment also make sure garbages are covered because again the more there’s
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easy access to food sources the more likely cockroaches are going to come around again there’s really three things
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that cockroaches require to stay alive and breathe and multiply in your home that’s having an adequate food source an
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adequate water source or an adequate shelter so it means all of those is survive now again eliminating those food
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sources by properly sealing food that you have stored in cupboards or cabinets and then also cleaning up after spills
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and messes and different crumbs you might have leaving laying around in your apartment or home or business is a great
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way to reduce cockroach numbers now from there you want to eliminate different water sources now a leaky faucet might
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not sound like a big deal or something that you could leave unchecked for a while but in reality leaky faucets and
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pipes are one main water source for cockroaches so that’s typically where they’re gonna hide out is in dark spaces
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underneath appliances underneath sinks so they’re often found in like kitchens and bathrooms where there might be leaky
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faucets or toilets or access to sources now again like I said it doesn’t need to be a huge water source but
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something as simple as a leaky faucet could start to attract pests like cockroaches so make sure if you’re a
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homeowner business owner or landlord to seal up any leaks in your pipes in your faucets in those areas because again
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that water source can attract pests like cockroaches now another interesting thing that you might not know about
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cockroaches is that they’re prehistoric creatures they’ve been around for thousands of years and have really
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adapted to the environment that they used to live in a long time ago so they usually live in temperatures that are
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well over 75 degrees so the warmer it is the more humid the hotter it is the better they thrive and live and tend to
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reproduce now cockroaches really reproduce very quickly so you want to make sure that they don’t have an ideal
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environment in your home or business or apartment so a couple things you can do to reduce those numbers one is going to
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be to thoroughly lower the temperature in your home so like I said it varies from species to species of cockroach but
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generally it needs to be above 70 or 75 degrees even for them to survive and thrive so if you lower the temperature
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in your home in apartments to under about 70 degrees doesn’t mean you’re gonna completely eliminate all
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cockroaches but you can certainly slow down their breathing and help reduce their numbers again if you’re following
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the other tips you know cleaning your home and eliminating water sources it can go a long way to prevent cockroach
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issues so it could be a simple way if you have them in your apartment or then you think that they might be in your
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complex as a landlord or again a home or business owner is reducing the temperature in your home now
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cockroaches actually die very quickly the colder it gets so one strategy that’s kind of interesting you’re unique
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that you can use it’s actually freezing them out so sometimes cockroaches can get in different appliances different
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things that you use a lot and depending on their size and unique strategy you can do is actually sealing them in a
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plastic bag and then putting them out in that freezing environment for a few days time so if you’re in the cold areas
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of the world like Minnesota in the winter for example you could actually bag up like a toaster or microwave or
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something along those lines that could be infested with those cockroaches and seal that up and then put that outside
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in the sub-zero temperatures for a few days and then that can actually kill off the different roaches or pest
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infestation that are inside of it now again before you bring those back into your home obviously thoroughly clean
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them make sure that they’re passed free but that could be a unique way to help get rid of those pests so depending on
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the size of the appliance or where they’re infesting you could even do that with smaller things like toasters or
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whatnot during the summer months and store them in a freezer for example so again the lower the temperature is the
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more can slow down those pest issues and help keep roaches out so implement that as part of a strategy you can use to
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reduce numbers of pests and again obviously cockroaches in this example so that’s cleaning your home thoroughly you
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know cleaning up messes spills crumbs oils grease stains different things like that and then as well as reducing
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temperature and then eliminating water sources for them so fixing leaky pipes and whatnot other areas where they have
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access to standing water so when you do those it can go a long way to reduce pest issues helping get rid of
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cockroaches and kill them off but again we really recommend if you do have an infestation or an issue to reach out to
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a pest control service as these are very Hardy passed and they like to survive right so it goes a long way to actually
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reach out to a pest control service and have them treat for these to fully eliminate those problems in your home
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business or apartment so again hopefully you guys got some benefit and value out of this video if you did feel free to
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