Approach
We have produced this guide to help professional pest controllers across the UK ensure the best immediate and most sustained control of cockroaches in a range of domestic, public and commercial environments.
It sets out a planned approach to sustainable cockroach control designed to address the joint challenges of more frequent infestations and greater health, hygiene and safety concerns reported by pest control officers across the country.
Promoting the most responsible insecticide use, it provides a best practice recipe for planned control based on a thorough understanding of cockroach behaviour gained from extensive research and experience throughout the USA and Europe.
Primary attention is focused on the German cockroach responsible for the vast majority of European infestations. Wherever its behaviour and control differ significantly, we also provide specific guidance on controlling the Oriental cockroach which causes problems in a significant minority of cases.
We have no doubt that exploiting the natural behaviour of cockroaches as fully as possible with practical treatment measures that can be implemented with the minimum of time and trouble has to be the best route to immediate and sustainable control of this highly adaptable urban pest.
We trust you find our approach of lasting value in helping you keep on top of your particular cockroach control challenges.
On of the USA's leading urban entomologists and cockroach control specialists, Jeffrey Tucker trains and supports pest control professionals in some of the world's most challenging control environments.
Entomologist, Lesley Le Quesne is responsible for one of the UK's leading urban cockroach control research and development programmes geared to improving control across Europe.
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