Cockroaches in blocks of flats

Cockroaches are perhaps the best known and the least liked invertebrate pest found in domestic and commercial environments - they are a serious threat to health and cause many other problems. They foul food and  spread disease e.g. salmonella,tuberculosis, gasteroenteritis. Their presence also causes fear and distress to many people. Because they eat almost anything they can also damage many goods other than food such as books, tapestries, leather goods, pictures.

Cockroaches may enter your premises through various routes: they could have travelled from the market inside your shopping bags, or crawled over from neighbouring properties. They are very good climbers, being able to climb vertical glass or tiled surfaces. Once inside a building they can get right into the heart of it while searching for warm humid areas, such as laundry rooms or behind radiators. Once a cockroach has found a suitable place to live, it then produces a smell that attracts other cockroaches. As this smell is also present in their faeces, cockroaches will also be attracted to areas previously contaminated by other cockroaches, so reinfestation of suitable areas is a common problem.