Cockroach Control in Colts Neck, NJ

Challenge

Cowleys deals with cockroach infestations on an almost daily basis. While cockroaches can turn up (and turn your stomach) anywhere, commercial kitchens and apartment complexes are especially troublesome. However, I received a call for a more unusual type of cockroach infestation for a homeowner in .

Sometimes in the warmer months, we get calls to eradicate Pennsylvania wood roaches. This particular type of roach infestations does not generally require any indoor chemical applications. Instead, the problem can be resolved with an outdoor perimeter treatment and some light caulking.

Not all roaches are limited to crawling on floors and ceiling. These Pennsylvania wood roaches can actually fly! Seeing a flying roach inside your home is a disturbing site. Seeing crawling roaches is bad enough, but flying roaches add a whole new dimension. The roaches eat decaying organic material and unlike most other roaches, they are attracted to light.  Adults are present May through early October. Unlike the more common German roach, these roaches do not survive or reproduce inside buildings because they need consistent moist conditions such as under decaying logs, wood piles or loose bark. In New Jersey, we see these roaches most often in June and July, their mating season. 

Solution

For this Pennsylvania wood roach job, I performed a perimeter application and some light caulking. For this wood roach infestations, part of the job is reassuring homeowners that, while these roaches can and do find their way inside homes, they do not infest and reproduce in homes like German and other resilient indoor roaches.