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Behavioural Resistance

Cockroaches can learn to avoid lethal toxicants, with avoidance behaviour allowing susceptible individuals to survive in areas treated with residual insecticides for 4-8 weeks after others have died.

There is also clear evidence that populations can become averse to the non-toxic ingredients in certain gel baits, with individuals refusing to feed on them or ceasing to feed before consuming a lethal dose of insecticide.

In many cases this aversion has been found to be inherited rather than merely learned, the greatest incidence being recorded where gel bait treatment pressures are the highest.

Learning appears to be promoted by environmental stability and low populations densities.

This means infestations require thorough harbourage treatment and careful baiting with gels and alternative bait formulations if avoidance and aversion are to be minimised, especially once populations have been depleted to a low level.

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