How to Get Rid of Roaches in Your Garage?

There’s nothing quite as disheartening as the discovery that your garage has been secretly taken over by unwanted guests—especially when those squatters are roaches! The good news is that you don’t have to move or burn your house to the ground to get rid of them. Roach control is easy if you make your garage an uncomfortable place for them to live in.

Why Cockroaches Survive?

With fossil evidence proving that cockroaches have been around for more than 300 million years, they are one of the oldest groups of insects on the earth. They are also one of the most common—perhaps because they have been around so long. There are around 4,600 species of cockroaches worldwide, and they live in every continent, except for Antarctica.  

Anatomy of a Cockroach: Know your Enemy

A roach is a roach and it’s good as dead. For the longest it didn’t matter what kind of roach it was, because it would soon be annihilated. But, in reality, having roaches in your home is not ok. You can’t just stomp or try to treat on your own. You have to arm yourself with knowledge and professional help. So to start you off on the right track we will cover the anatomy of different types of common roaches, their features and their habitats.

Oriental Cockroach. Blatta orientalis. Part 2

 Many cockroaches are ill adapted for living in the natural environment. Whether they’re not fit for the fluctuations in climate, or only too used to consuming our food scraps, some are simply too dependent on humans to survive without our help. The oriental cockroach on the other hand is one of the few that have managed to remain an outdoor scavenger. Oriental cockroaches are some of the more dangerous cockroaches in terms of pathogens and bacteria, due to their strong need for water to survive. This need drives them often towards sewers and other bacteria heavy areas.

Oriental Cockroach. Blatta orientalis. Part 1

 The origin of the oriental cockroach, Blatta orientalis Linnaeus, is uncertain, but it is thought to be from Africa or south Russia. It is a major household pest in parts of the northwest, mid-west, and southern United States. It is also sometimes referred to as the "black beetle" or a "water bug" because of its dark black appearance and tendency to harbor in damp locations.

How To Get Rid of Smoky Brown Roaches

 The Smoky Brown Cockroach is uniformly mahogany brown in color, with no other distinctive lines or colorations. It is closely related to the American cockroach, but smaller in size at just over 1 inch. Both male and female Smoky Browns have wings longer than their bodies.

How To Get Rid of Australian Roaches

 The Australian Cockroach is similar in appearance to the American cockroach, reddish-brown in color, and winged. However, the Australian cockroach is slightly smaller than the American, growing to be approximately 1 1/4"-1 3/8". The Australian Cockroach also has a yellow margin on the thorax, and yellow streaks at its sides at the base of the wings.

Australian cockroach. All about it!

 The Australian cockroach is one of several species of peridomestic cockroaches (cockroaches that live mostly outdoors, but occasionally may be found indoors) and the most common cockroach species found outdoors in southern Florida.