Roach Pest Control in AZ

The first step in EFFECTIVE Pest Control for all roaches is correct identification! There are several different roach species and each requires specialized treatment customized to their habits!

Cockroaches throughout the Phoenix AZ Valley are MOST active during the warm months, and they survive temperatures as low as 32 degrees. When it gets colder the SURVIVE by moving INTO homes and businesses WITH HUMANS! If you have been unsuccessful treating a roach infestation, you’re {or your exterminator} most likely treating for the wrong type of cockroach!

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How Did I Get Roaches?

Cockroaches live outdoors in our desert communities. They enter homes through dry drain pipes, open doors & windows, through bad weatherstripping, & under old door sweeps, vents, & seldom used drains. Plus German Roaches can be brought into homes via used furniture or appliances or other items from infested places.

Once cockroaches get established an infestation can EXPLODE as they can produce THOUSANDS offspring in JUST 1 year!

EFFECTIVE Cockroach Pest Control – 5 Step Process:

1. Prevention

Inspect all items brought into the home for roaches and their egg cases. Keep your home or building in good repair.

2. Good Sanitation

Keeping things clean, and in good repair, reduces: harboring areas, food sources, and moisture that roaches need to thrive.

3. Identification

Correct cockroach identification is key to effective control! Each species has their own habits that are used against them in effective pest control applications.

4. Initial Pest Control Clean Out

– Depending on the species being treated, this may include BAITS, IGR’s {insect growth regulators,} crack and crevices treatment with liquid spray, dusting in VOIDS {like inside walls}.

5. Maintenance Services

This is key to continual roach control {especially in commercial establishments prone to infestations.} Ongoing service includes, regular inspections, monitoring traps to find missed roaches or roaches that have just been introduced, and preventive pest control treatments.

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Phoenix Cockroach Extermination helps control scorpions. Scorpions LOVE to eat roaches & are attracted to areas where roaches are abundant!

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Main Species of Roaches Throughout the Phoenix AZ Valley & Pest Control Process.

In the Phoenix and Mesa AZ valley it’s important to know the difference between roaches that live outside and occasionally invade a home, and domestic roaches that really infest inside.

American Cockroaches

{Also called “sewer roaches”} American Cockroaches are the most common species of roaches found in Sewers in the USA.} These roaches are controlled with monthly or bi-monthly Pest Control Service.

• 1&3/8″ – 2&1/8″ long.
• Reddish brown color
• Male & Female are fully winged.
• They can fly short distances.
• Found Inside and Outside homes and buildings.
• They love commercial buildings like restaurants, food processing facilities, and grocery/liquor stores.
• Over 5000 American Roaches have been found in 1 sewer manhole.
• They enter through: sewer systems, catching a ride inside on something, doors, and windows.
• They feed on lots of things, but love fermenting food.

German Cockroaches

Home is where the heart is… And German Roaches would agree. Because they LOVE living in homes with us! In fact German Roach infestations almost always start in kitchens and bathrooms because they NEED hydration.

This is the SCARY Roach {German Roaches give all roaches the bad reputation they’re known for!} Not only are they the most complicated roaches to eliminate, {Don’t try a DIY approach for German Roaches… You’ll waist money, time, and get very frustrated!} but they LOVE to infest kitchens, and spread germs making people SICK!

Providing Specialized German Roach Control for restaurants & homes. German Roaches are a COMMON invader to restaurants, markets, hospitals, & homes. Because they reproduce SO much FASTER, they require a more frequent & specialized treatment. German Roach infestations usually start from infested shipped goods & packaging.

German Roaches need an “Insect Growth Regulator” to stop the reproductive cycle. Without this German Roach numbers just EXPLODE! Because of their RAPID reproductive rate, Pest Control treatments are more frequent.

• They are common in cardboard box packaging, and on shipped goods. German Cockroaches can also crawl right onto you, in an infested home or restaurant, and be brought home with you.
• Adult FEMALE German Roaches can be FERTILIZED just 1ce, and reproduces the REST of her LIFE! German Cockroaches reproduce QUICKLY, almost like an explosion!! Every female German Roach can produce 5-8 egg sacks with 30-40 eggs inside. German Roach eggs can HATCH in ONLY 50-60 days! Unfortunately for us Arizonans, roaches do best in WARM and a bit humid conditions. SCARY, but true. Because roaches are active at night, spotting one of these little nightmares during the day is a sign of a MUCH bigger problem!
• Adults measure 1/2″ – 5/8″ long.
• Color is light brown to Tan, and they have two dark paralleled lines running down the back side of their heads.
• German Roaches rarely fly.

Oriental Cockroaches

Oriental Cockroaches (sometimes called a water bug) are easily controlled with regular pest control treatments. Oriental Cockroaches do live in our yards, and can also infest inside homes. These roaches need water, and infest sewer drains, and love damp cool areas.

• Adult males are about 1″ & adult females are 1 1/4″ long.
• Color is shiny black (color may vary to a dark reddish brown)
• Male wings cover 75% of their body.
• Female wings are much smaller and like in the picture above look more like wing pads.
• Adult Oriental Roaches DO NOT fly.
• Oriental Roaches live outside.
• They like to be under debris, rocks, and in wall/porch voids.
• Oriental Roaches can survive long periods of freezing weather.
• Enter homes/building through: old door sweeps, under sliding glass doors, on utility pipes, on air ducts, & through floor drains.
• Oriental Roaches have a strong “Roachy” odor.
• They feed on filth, and decaying matter.

Turkestan Roaches

Turkestan roaches are established in California, Texas, and Maricopa and Pima counties in Arizona

• Adults males are 1/2″-7/8″ & Females are 3/4″- 1″ long.
• Males are brownish yellow – BLOND.
• Males have wings covering their body.
• Turkestan Cockroaches are also COMMON in sewers, and can carry bacteria that causes DYSENTERY.
• Females are dark brown to black.
• Females wings are very short with basal outer edger pale.
• Can Infest INDOORS and OUTSIDE

Asian Cockroaches

Asian Roaches have spread to Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and they are also here in ARIZONA!

Asian Roaches are expert hitchhikers, and infest INSIDE homes. These roaches can easily spread to all the southern states, both coasts, Hawaii, and the entire United States!

• Adults are half to 5/8″ long
• Color is light brown except for 2 dark parallel lines on their backs.
• Asian Roaches are good at flying.

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Eliminate Roaches with a Monthly, Bi-monthly, or Quarterly Pest Control service.

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Controlling Cockroaches Protects Health!

• Roaches carry pathogens ON their bodies that can be passed on to us, and cause diseases including:

1. Tuberculosis,
2. Cholera,
3. Leprosy,
4. Dysentery,
5. Typhoid, & more than 40 other disease causing bacteria, & viruses.

• Studies show Cockroaches are a major cause of ASTHMA and ALLERGIES! In some cities up to 45% of kids are allergic to cockroaches. Many children develop Asthma because of exposure to cockroaches!

Fun Cockroach Facts

• Cockroaches have an open circulatory system, & breathe through little holes in each of their body segments.
• Cockroaches can live a week without their head! They only die because it can’t drink water!
• Cockroaches can hold their breath for 40 minutes, & survive being submerged under water for a half hour!
• Cockroaches run up to three miles an hour!
• Newborn German cockroaches become adults in as little as 36 days!
• German cockroaches are the most common roach, & cause outbreaks of illness & allergic reactions.
• A one-day-old cockroach, about the size of a speck of dust, & runs almost as fast as its parents.
• American cockroaches have shown attraction to alcoholic beverages, especially beer.
• The world’s largest roach lives in South America, and is six inches long with a one-foot wingspan!
• Cockroaches are believed to have originated over 280 million years ago, in the Carboniferous era.
• There are over 4,000 species of cockroaches in the world!
• Cockroaches are cold-blooded, and can live without food for a month, but only survive 1 week without water.

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