How to Get Rid of Roaches in Boise
Even before you turn on the light in your kitchen you hear them ... the horrifying clicking of spindly legs and fluttering wings. An infestation of cockroaches in your well-maintained Boise home.
Roaches were a plague on the earth long before the dinosaurs. They contaminate our food, cause health issues, damage electronics, and more. It's not that you have a messy house. It's that any home provides the sustenance cockroaches need for survival - food, water, and shelter.
If they find your home, you instantly have a serious pest control problem. Roaches (or their eggs) hitchhike inside in boxes, grocery bags, backpacks, or furniture. They scamper over from a neighboring home and gain access through tiny exterior cracks or under door seals.
A female cockroach, having mated with a particular male only once in her life, preserves the gametes of the male in her body, and lays egg casings regularly. In other words, she doesn't need a male to repeatedly reproduce and infest your home with offspring.
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Why is Cockroach Control So Difficult?
If you have tried to get rid of cockroaches before, you already know it's no easy task. You can stomp on them, spray them with retail pesticide, or trap them. But they come back en masse. Better to name a cockroach at the Boise Zoo (one of the zoo's donor programs) and keep them away from your house.
Cockroaches are known to be:
- One of nature's most resilient pests
- Common across the world
- Prevalent year-round
- Masters at hide-and-seek
- Eat almost anything
- Increasingly resistant to common pesticides
- Prolific breeders
Common Cockroaches in Boise
While the semi-arid climate and dry winters in Boise make cockroaches far less prevalent than in other areas, they do haunt Boise homes. How to get rid of cockroaches, and how long it takes to do so, largely depends on the type of the cockroach species and the size of the infestation. No matter the type, if you see a few, there are a hundred more in hiding.
Cockroaches common in Boise include:
German Cockroach - a small species that is tan and black and averaging in length from 1.2–1.6 cm long.
Oriental Cockroach - a large species that range from 18-27 mm long and have a black glossy body.
American Cockroach - Common throughout the United States, this species is brown and measures 4 cm in length on average.
