Pests
Cockroaches
Solution
Roaches: Controlling & Preventing Them
Cockroaches know how to find food. That means you have to be extra careful with crumbs and spills. Storing food in sealed containers helps, too. Here's where you have to be delicate: if the apartment upstairs or the row house next door is not up to your standards of cleanliness, you could have cockroaches anyway. Talk to your neighbors — tactfully — about working together to fight cockroaches.
Prevention and Maintenance
Treat Them the Way They Deserve
Treat your baseboards, doors, windows, and the perimeter of your house with Ortho® Home Defense MAX® Perimeter and Indoor Insect Killer.
Control Them Outdoors, Too
Roaches in the house come from somewhere, and that's often from the outdoors surrounding the house. Treat your yard with Ortho® Bug-B-Gon MAX® Lawn & Garden Insect Killer Ready-To-Spray.
Cockroaches Defined
Cockroaches are often considered one of the most disgusting of household insects. They consume food products in the pantry and contaminate the area with their saliva and excrement. Only five species of roaches are significant pests throughout the United States, the German cockroach being the most common.
