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Specimen of the German cockroach
Cockroach specimens
Cockroaches raised in the laboratory
Sichuan News Network Chengdu, April 12 (reporter Li Dan photo report) many citizens have such a distress, why there are cockroaches in the home, how can not be extinguished? What to do to prevent cockroaches?
Every April is the patriotic health month, on the occasion of the province's patriotic health activities, the Sichuan News Network reporter walked into the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and asked Yu Jigang, assistant researcher of the Vector Biological Control Department of the Institute of Parasitic Disease Prevention and Control of the Center, to support how to correctly control cockroaches.
"At present, the common cockroach in the homes of Sichuan residents is the German cockroach." Yu Jigang introduced, the German cockroach is small, easy to hide in the gap, around the pipe, kitchen cabinet, refrigerator, corner line and other narrow seams, should not be found, "At the same time, the German cockroach fertility is very strong, in theory, a female German cockroach can produce 10 million offspring per year, the German cockroach's oviparab mother carries, should not be cleared and killed, so it feels difficult to extinguish." ”
Yu Jigang said that cockroaches can cause food pollution, can chew on clothes, books and other items, damage the living environment, cause a decline in the quality of life, and carry a variety of pathogens, spread intestinal diseases. To prevent cockroaches, we must first do a good job in indoor environmental hygiene, clean up the environment, health dead ends, all food residues, cut off water sources, plug all gaps in the room, and reduce cockroach habitat. If necessary, plastic plate sticking can be used to kill and cast cockroach poison bait to control cockroach density.
Yu Jigang reminded that if you want to use insecticides on cockroaches, you must transfer tableware and food to avoid contamination with insect repellent before spraying.