Cockroaches whether brownish, black or tan, well described as shiny flat bodied foul smelling insects are well known to us and are found all over world . More than 3000 species of cockroaches are known to occur throughout the world. They are quite active during night or in dark places. They have filthy habits, repulsive appearance, odour that irritates us. These species are known to spread diseases like Tuberculosis, Cholera, Leprosy, Dysentery and Typhoid thus making them very dangerous. Not only this but they destroy food, damage fabrics and book-bindings and contaminate the materials over which they crawl by their excreta thus causing unhygienic environment.
Cockroaches enter into the houses from different places including small inlets crevices in wall, open holes of floors, walls doorframes, spaces behind wooden furniture etc. Now a day’s people use marble-made utensils like shelves, cupboards etc to avoid entrance of Cockroaches. We do take care of every point from where cockroaches can come inside the place. Special attention is given to water and drainage pipe.