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Under optimum conditions, cockroaches can produce two million offspring in one year, with an average breeding season resulting in 350,000 offspring.

Cockroaches are known carriers of serious disease.
Their indiscriminate feeding sources in such areas as sewers, drains and garbage areas bring them in contact with disease organisms including salmonella and other organisms associated with dysentery, typhoid, hepatitis and tuberculosis. SwissInfo has the SARS Disease linked to cockroaches through a Hong Kong apartment block.

Cockroach eggs usually enter domestic and commercial premises in food and other packaging.
Cockroaches are nocturnal feeders, breeding and resting during daylight hours in dark warm places, such as, in the roof void, cracks and crevices in the kitchen and bathroom, inside the wall cavities, electrical appliances and foodstuffs.

Although sanitation and hygiene is important, even the cleanest of premises are infested by cockroaches due to minute deposits of grease, sugar and other food deposits being left in difficult to get at places, such as, in drains and cracks and crevices in kitchen cupboards.

Treatment is directed towards cockroach habitat areas away from human contact, with no need to empty kitchen cupboards, this gel-bait is highly attractive to cockroaches and provides effective control, usually for many months.

The identification of the species, is essential to determine their nesting locations, and effective control measures.