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INSIDE OUTSIDE
LIFE CYCLE
PREVENTING RE-INFESTATION
BROWN BANDED
AMERICAN
ROACH
1/16 inch
In three
weeks
Nymph
Nymph
Adult:
Life span
about 2 years
ROACH TRAPS
A clean house is key to keeping cockroaches away.
40
75
5,000
INSECTICIDE CHALK
The chalk creates a poisonous barrier
that the roaches walk through. When
the roaches return to their lair, the
poison is passed on to other roaches
on contact.
Number of minutes roaches can hold
their breath
Percentage of time that roaches
spend just resting
Number of species of roaches
worldwide
Years ago that roaches originated
(Carboniferous era)
Amount of space a
roach can fit in
280 million+
BY THE NUMBERS
Keep kitchen cean. Do not eave dirty dishes overnight.
Wipe range tops after use, as cockroaches ove grease.
Iix dripping faucets. Cockroaches are attracted
to water.
Put naphthaene bas (moth bas) in corners.
They repel roaches.
Pour beach down drain to hep prevent roaches from coming
up the drain.
Sea cracks in exterior was. This keeps roaches out of the
house by blocking their entrance.
Sea cracks around cabinets, doors, window molding, pipes and
anywhere you can inside your house. This takes away their
hiding and breeding place.
BRAIN: The brain of the
roach is spread through-
out its body, with a small
part in its head.
ANTENNAE: These
feelers provide
roaches with a sense
of smell.
EYE: Roaches have
compound eyes
made up of 2,000
individua lenses,
allowing them to see
in all directions at the
same time.
MOUTH: Roaches can
smell as well as taste
with their mouth.
SKELETON: This is on
the outside of body
and is shed when they
get bigger.
LEGS: Hairs on
legs act as sensors.
CERCI: These are
like motion detec-
tors, allowing the
roach to detect
movement behind
them.
GASTRIC CAECEA:
Germs and
enzymes stored
here that help
with digestion.
MIDGUT:
Where
nutrients are
absorbed.
MALPIGHIAN
TUBULES:
Cleans
waste
out of
blood.
CROP: Iood is
stored here.
ESOPHAGUS:
Iood passage.
Cockroaches have six legs and a pair of antennae.
Some species develop wings and can fly or glide for short
distances. The Asian cockroach, usually found outdoors, is capable
of sustained flight.
Childproof case that contains a
slow working poison mixed with a
roach bait. The roaches eat the poison-
laced bait and bring it back to the nest,
where it eventually kills it and other
roaches in the nest. Put these containers
where you have seen roach activity.
Hawaii is home to 20 species, the most
common of which are the American
(Periplaneta americana), German
(Blattella germanica), Asian (Blattella
asahinai) and brown-banded (Supella
longipalpa) roaches. The Oriental
cockroach is about the only species found
commonly around the world but not yet in
Hawaii, probably because it likes cooler
climes.
The American cockroach likes to
breed in and around underground
sewer facilities and utility networks.
In the home, it will glue its dark
brown egg cases to surfaces, prefer-
ably wood, especially in corners of
cabinets, underneath counters and
in drawers. The females on average
produce an egg case about once a
month for 10 months, laying 16 eggs
per egg case. German roach females
carry their egg cases at the end of
their bodies. One female can
produce 30,000 offspring in a year.
Ootheca:
Contains about
40 roach eggs
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Sources: cockroach-pictures.com; hawaii411.com; kids.discovery.com
Because of Hawaiis warm climes,
cockroaches thrive year-round. New-
comers and visitors often are startled
by their first sight of the American
roach, locally dubbed the B-52, known
to shrug off a direct hit with a telephone
book (even back when it included the
Yellow Pages).
Cockroaches are one of the most dis-
gusting creatures we know, says a fact
sheet from the University of Hawaii Cen-
ter on the Family. They are also very
dangerous. In your home, cockroaches
feed on almost anything bits of food,
leather, paper, wallpaper, books, blood,
and even toenails. They also feed on fe-
ces (food and animal wastes), garbage
and sewage. After wandering through all
kinds of wastes, picking up bacteria and
other germs, they crawl over your
kitchen counters, food, and dishes, taint-
ing them with their vomit and feces.
They crawl into baby
bottles and
onto your childrens toys.
About 20 species of cockroach have
found their way to Hawaii, according to
Kenneth Grace, an entomologist with
the UH College of Tropical Agriculture
and Human Resources.
They include the German and Aus-
tralian roaches, which prefer the in-
doors, and Asian and harlequin roaches,
which usually live outside. The Surinam
cockroach is the only one to regularly
host a disease agent poultry eye-
worm, a problem in chickens, Grace
says. But roaches can carry many other
diseases, including salmonella, dysen-
tery, typhus, polio and toxoplasmosis.
Their droppings and dead body parts
can also trigger asthma attacks, cautions
the Hawaii Department of Health.
The German cockroach is the most
common in homes and restaurants.
They prefer dark and moist areas and
can be found during the day lurking be-
hind baseboards, in cracks in cabinets
or pantries, or under refrigerators,
stoves and dishwashers.
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