Know Your Pest
German roaches are usually this color and have these two distinctive markings behind their head.
What is a light brown/tan body with two dark parallel stripes behind the head?
These two rooms are the most common places to find German roaches.
What are kitchens and bathrooms
A female German roach egg capsule can contain approximately this many eggs.
What is up to 40–50 eggs?
This physical removal method helps immediately reduce the number of roaches, nymphs, and egg cases.
What is HEPA vacuuming?
This is the preferred IPS service for an active German roach infestation.
What is German Roach Rapid Reduction?
German roaches are typically about this long.
What is approximately ½–⅝ inch?
These small, dark signs of German roach activity can resemble pepper.
What are pepper like droppings?
Bug bombs and repellent sprays can make an infestation worse by causing the roaches to do this.
What is scatter/move deeper into walls and harborages?
This type of pesticide is preferred because it doesn’t repel and scatter the roaches.
What is a non-repellent?
During Rapid Reduction, technicians place these devices in harborage areas to measure activity.
What are glue monitors?
German Roaches can trigger these severe issues especially in children
What are asthma and allergies?
Name two additional signs of an infestation besides seeing a live roach.
What are shed skins, musty/oily odor, egg cases/oothecae, droppings?
German roaches often hide in these three types of hard-to-reach locations.
What are electrical appliances, behind/inside cabinets and wall voids?
This treatment component disrupts the roach breeding cycle and prevents young roaches from reproducing normally.
What is an insect growth regulator, or IGR?
For a severe infestation or conducive conditions, the first follow-up should generally occur within this time frame.
What is 30 days?
German cockroaches can carry pathogens including these two well-known bacteria.
What are E. coli and Salmonella?
German roaches favor areas with these three environmental necessities/conditions.
What are warmth, humidity/moisture, and access to food/water?
German roaches are especially difficult to eliminate because of two major biological/behavioral factors
What is rapid reproduction and ability to hide deep within small, inaccessible harborages?
Why should a technician use this tool as many visible German roaches as possible during treatment?
What is to physically remove as much of the population as possible so the infestation resolves faster with the HEPA vacuum?
Expectations for treatment for a one time service of German Roach Cleanout.
What is first treatment to dramatically reduce, and first follow up to resolve?
Despite having wings, German roaches generally do this rather than sustain flight.
What is gliding?
A technician finds pepper-like droppings, egg cases, and activity behind the refrigerator. What does this tell you, and where should the technician focus the inspection?
What is a German roach infestation and what inspection should concentrate around the refrigerator and nearby cracks, cabinets, appliances, voids and other warm/moist harborages?
Explain why repeatedly spraying visible German roaches with repellent aerosol may actually interfere with elimination.
Repellent aerosols can scatter roaches away from established harborages and push them into harder-to-treat areas, undermining a targeted bait/non-repellent strategy.
Put these concepts into a logical treatment strategy: vacuuming, gel bait, IGR, non-repellent treatment, sanitation/customer cooperation.
What is
sanitation/customer cooperation removes competing food and water; vacuuming immediately reduces the population; targeted non-repellent treatments reach appropriate harborage; gel bait is placed where roaches will feed; and an IGR helps disrupt reproduction?
Give the step by step eradication plan
What is deep cleaning to starve them, physically removing the nest, applying professional gel baits, using IGR, and applying non repellent dust?