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Exactly Why Do We Hate Cockroaches So Much?

What Is It About Cockroaches That We Hate?
What Is It About Cockroaches That We Hate?

The last thing a property owner wants to see scurrying around their property is a cockroach. These intimidating bugs are fast, creative at getting into food sources, and in some cases show no fear when confronted.

About Cockroaches

There are even more reasons why the sight of cockroaches traveling over, under, and around your living area can make your skin crawl. Any one of these situations is why many people choose to contact a NYC cockroach exterminator for professional help needed to eliminate these and other bug problems.

• Cockroaches have been around since the time of the dinosaurs, which means they have adapted very well to the planet’s many changes and are most likely at the top of the list of survivors.

• Cockroaches have around 4,600 subspecies setting up housekeeping around the world.

• Some species are known to carry allergens that can be problematic for asthma sufferers.

• Roaches are transporters of bacteria as they traverse through many dark, dank, and unclean areas.

• Most people have an adverse attitude towards cockroaches because of their size and armored-body look.

• They’re just gross.

• However, on the list of dangerous insects that are harmful to humans, cockroaches rank much lower than mosquitoes.

At Stern Environmental Group, our NYC cockroach exterminator specialists are standing by to rid your property of disease carrying bugs. Contact us by phone or through our online form for more information or to schedule an appointment.

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New ‘Winter Roach’ Invades NYC

New York City rolls out the welcome mat for millions of visitors each year, but city health officials wish they could send one visitor packing. A cockroach species that thrives in cold weather has been found in the Big Apple’s unique High Line Park. Native to the cold northern regions of Asia, Periplaneta Japonica most likely arrived hidden in the soil of imported landscape plants used to turn the old elevated train tracks on the lower west side into a green space.

First seen in 2012 by an exterminator treating the exterior of a building on the High Line, the roach species is new to the U.S. Rutgers University biologists used DNA tests to identify the species, making the High Line discovery the first confirmed sighting of Periplaneta Japonica in the U.S.

Unlike America’s native cockroach population which can only survive winter by moving indoors, this Asian immigrant (and its eggs and offspring) can survive outdoors even when the temperature plunges below freezing. Unlike U.S. roaches, Periplaneta Japonica has the ability to walk on ice and snow, a talent that should not only increase cockroach activity in the city during the winter but also allow this species to spread to new sites in New Jersey and beyond more easily.

Fortunately, Stern Environmental commercial cockroach extermination services are just as effective on this new immigrant as they are on U.S. roaches.