Cockroach droppings can hold diseases for up to a year and can cause allergies. Some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives, so stepping on them only releases their eggs, giving birth to a new generation of roaches. According to Mark Boulter, director of building services, Northeastern has an intensive program of pest management, which relies mostly on students letting the school know when and where cockroaches appear. All students need to do is notify their resident assistants or resident directors, who schedule an extermination with pest control. Usually it is done on Tuesdays and Fridays, but we have a full-time exterminator on campus.
Roaches can run as fast as three miles per hour and can swim.
They have claws on their feet for scaling walls. The nocturnal creatures spend 75 percent of their time sleeping. Cockroaches, like most of us, are drawn food, aggression and sex. Gelbait emits pheromones, which are fe-male cockroach hormones. To rid your apartment or house of roaches, pour Lysol in the toilet to pollute their drinking water, and down the drain to poison the entrance.