Top Warning Signs You Have Cockroaches In Your Home 

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Top Warning Signs You Have Cockroaches In Your Home
Pretty much everyone hates roaches, and they are probably the last thing you want to see running across your kitchen counters, so in this post, we cover the top warning signs you have cockroaches in your home.
Seeing Roach Droppings
First off, roaches are nocturnal and are very skittish when it comes to being around humans, so you’ll probably have a hard time noticing them if there’s only one or two roaches hiding in your home. You might accidentally run into them as you are stumbling into the dark kitchen for a late night snack as you open the fridge door.
Cockroaches, like most pests, are in constant search of food, water, and shelter. Unfortunately, your home can be an excellent provider of all three things cockroaches are looking for to survive.
Roaches typically eat food you leave easy access to such as scraps in garbage cans or even grease and grime left behind on dirty appliances and counters. You’ll usually find them hanging around in the kitchen or bathrooms where there are many access points for food and water.
In these high traffic areas for roaches, a top warning sign you have cockroaches in your home is finding roach droppings in these areas. Unless you are a night owl like roaches, you’ll probably start finding roach droppings before you start seeing other warning signs of cockroaches.
You’ll start finding egg casings (oothecae)
It doesn’t take long for a few roaches to create a massive problem because these pests can breed incredibly fast. Roaches don’t just lay one egg at a time and call it a day, but instead they lay cases of eggs, (called Oothecae).
These long brown egg cases can contain an average of 10 to 20 eggs and in some species of cockroach that egg count could jump up to as high as 50 eggs per case. This means a few roaches can quickly multiply when left unchecked and become a major issue almost overnight.
Often roaches will hide these egg casings in hard to reach places, making them hard to find and treat with over-the-counter remedies. This is one reason we recommend reaching out to a pest control service for treatment if you start seeing any of these top warning signs for cockroaches.
Smelling roaches
Another warning sign for roaches you might encounter before you start actively seeing them is you will start smelling them. Roaches can produce a rather unpleasant musty order throughout your house.
This is caused for several reasons. This smell could come from decaying dead roaches, but also from several live roaches as well. Often if you are smelling roaches, it will have an oily and musty smell.
In most cases when you begin smelling roaches, it’s probably not just from a single roach. Occasionally, certain species of roaches do have a potent smell as an individual roach, but in most cases you’ll be smelling many roaches if it’s strong enough to detect throughout your home.
Dead Roaches
Spotting dead roaches throughout your home is another sure warning sign you have roaches in your home. Roaches are a tough breed of pest and can go long periods without food, and in some cases even without a head!
Surprisingly, roaches can breath though tiny holes along their bodies and headless roaches can still survive for a decent amount of time. The only reason these headless pests die, is they can no longer ingest food or water.
This means that if you are finding dead roaches hidden around your home, they were the weaker ones that couldn’t survive. In most cases there are still plenty of others hiding throughout your home when you start finding roach carcasses.
Also finding dead roaches doesn’t mean you are in the clear. It’s usually just a sign that numbers are increasing and the issue may only be just beginning. Roaches aren’t really a pest that takes care of itself when left unchecked, so you’ll want to take action immediately when encountering any warning signs for cockroaches in your home.
The last major warning sign may seem a bit obvious, but it probably is worse than you think if you start seeing roaches during the day. Typically, cockroaches are nocturnal and seeing them during the day is a very bad sign.
When you start seeing roaches during the day, this often means that there is overcrowding going on in your home. Most often, nocturnal creatures and pests like roaches, won’t start coming out during the day unless they are desperate.
There’s usually more than enough food and water to go around if roaches are in your home to begin with, but if they are getting desperate and begin searching for those in the day your home could be in trouble.
Roaches are a tough pest to eliminate and it may require multiple treatments to fully get rid of them. So the sooner you can start putting an effective pest control treatment in place the better.