Exterminate Cockroaches
Cockroaches are predominantly tropical and subtropical. A number of species have, with the aid of commerce, dispersed worldwide, exploiting building environments for food and shelter. Many such environments provide year-round warmth, food and shelter, which may support literally thousands of cockroaches.
Cockroaches eat stored foods and other materials.
They contaminate foods and food-handling areas with droppings, cast skins, regurgitation marks and odours caused by abdominal secretions.
As well, disease organisms of various kinds (bacterial, viral and protozoan) have been isolated from cockroach bodies and droppings. Infestations of cockroaches are generally regarded as a threat to human health. There are many types of pest cockroach but the most common to Northland are the German cockroach and the Gisborne cockroach.