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 Tips for Safer Roach Control Cockroaches Cockroaches are not only undesirable pests but a threat to human health by consuming our food and contaminating the indoor environment. Cockroaches are known to transfer disease pathogens, such as the various bacteria that produce “food poisoning” in humans, by contamina

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Roaches continually lay eggs. Once a roach is pregnant, its pregnant for life. Roaches can live without food for up to six weeks. Roaches are known to carry E. coli and Salmonella. Mosquitoes require water to breed. Mosquito larvae can develop quickly in bird baths, roof gutters, old tires and anything else that will

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Cockroaches are insect s of the order Blattodea , which also includes termite s. About cockroach species out of are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pest s. The cockroaches are an ancient group, dating back at least as far as the Carboniferous period, some million years ago. Those ea