hello I'm Dwight with the bug man today
we're going to talk a little bit about
what's commonly called the water bug
actually it's a species of cockroach
called the smoky Brown cockroach.
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most people tell me that we don't have
cockroaches we have those great big
water bugs so it's a common name
people just refer to them as water bugs
a lot of time when I'm talking to
customers i refer them as water bugs
also for understanding one little point
about the smoky Brown cockroach that we
need to point out is a difference
between it and the smaller German German
Roach is normally that you might see in
the kitchen like this you might find
them in the cabinets
you might find them under the sink the
development of the German Roach it
carries their young an egg casing and it
carries it until like two days before
it's ready to hatch if that female dies
the egg casing will die with it if
you're not ready to hatch the smoky
Brown cockroach forms an egg in a couple
of days deposited somewhere for it to
develop and it could take six weeks it
could take six months for that egg to
develop where it's hidden depending on
the environment if it's a good place
so you you may get rid of all your
adult smokey Brown roaches and then have
a resurgence later that year maybe even
to the next year a lot of the habitat
the smoky Brown roaches are looking for
is that it is moist and protected and
shaded from the Sun and the warm months
outside the house pile of the leaf
leaves leaf debris old fire wood piles
maybe stack some firewood there and it's
and never was used and that falling
apart they love that any old building
materials you have stacked up around the
home anywhere there's clutter like where
you can really maintain the yard like
mow it or weed it frequently they love
those areas just think of moisture
and protection that also goes in to the
crawlspace and the attic space of homes
many times when we encounter these pests
and home could be in the crawlspace just
inside that foundation vent up on the
sill plate and they hide there in the
daytime and they go out in the evenings
or when it's shady or wet right outside
it's close by that they can go forage
out there any water leak in the crawl
space where there's a Morse dirt you
know they love that dark cool moist also
believe it or not I've seen large
numbers of them in attics typically
that's around the e where the gutters
are on the corners it might be that your
gutters are not cleaned and draining
properly and the fascia board there
behind together is getting a little
moist and you just see a large mass of
them huddled up in one corner up there
those places also could Harbor the smoky
Brown cockroach
ok so you've gone around the house and
you've identified these places and
you've eliminated them but you still
want to do some treatment around the
house there's a couple of options that
you can do a bait treatment with a
granular scattered base labeled for a
door cockroaches can be easily be
applied around the foundation of the
home and to some key areas near the home
and you can also do a spray application
as a perimeter defense around the home
with the foundation level
another thing to understand about the
smoky Brown roaches is that they don't
normally want to live in the house
normally they're outside the house in
their natural environment and they just
wander in
so you may get a few that live like
around your water heater closet maybe in
the eaves and they come in that way but
normally they're found right up against
the house being close proximity to the
house we're going to step outside and
show you some of these things where they
like to hide and what you can do to
prevent them from making a good home
next year's this is an area that is
prone to be fully invested with smokey
Brown roaches have a large mature trees
getting dying you've got a giant cavity
in here and it goes way back in here
some of his rotten it holds a lot of
moisture and things for the cockroaches
to live on and get some shelter in the
wintertime and stays moist in there and
it can Harbor a lot of smoky Brown
roaches even areas that big trees maybe
just have a big scaly bark areas on them
you see them in their common i've had
many homeowners tell me that they had a
dead tree in the yard and they didn't
know it was hollow but when they cut it
down it hit the ground and the smoky
Brown roaches scattered everywhere
which a spider called action to their
home
this is the white with the bug man today
we covered some details information
about the smoky Brown cockroach to help
you know more about it and understand
why it's there what you can do about it
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