4 FAVOURITE COCKROACH FOODS

There are about 4,000 cockroach species known to exist across the planet, but only 40 of them are considered to be pests.

They are also the world’s most adaptive creatures with exceptional survival skills. A cockroach in the absence of water can live up to a couple of weeks and can go on to live for about a month without food.

Possibly the reason they are considered the world’s oldest pests.

Cockroaches are omnivorous and considered opportunistic feeders.

This means that they will eat almost anything — wherever and whenever they find it. Whether it’s fruits, garbage, vegetables, or even other insects, cockroaches will live off practically anything.

In times of an organic food shortage, cockroaches will also eat household items.

Be it cardboard, leather, glue, paper scraps, solid soaps, starch-based paints and wallpaper, dried human skin flakes, fingernail clippings and nylon clothing. Their digestive tract allows them to feast on non-food items too.

Nevertheless studies show that like humans, cockroaches prefer to eat certain foods. They do have an appetite for a balanced diet and food with nutritional values.

Here is a list of 4 FAVOURITE COCKROACH FOODS;

1.Sugar

Sugar is one of the cockroach favourites. In fact, cockroaches are attracted to sugar above all else.

Leave any sugar-based food item exposed and a family of roaches is bound to find their way to it.

Juice and soda also attract cockroaches due to the high sugar concentration. They can easily smell the stains of a dried sugary drink dropped on the floor.

Fruits are also loaded with natural sugar — and cockroaches love eating fruit from the trash because of this. They’ll also eat baked goods, candy, and anything else sweet.

2. Starch

Starch is another cockroach favourite.

Starch is particularly attractive to them as it is a good source of energy.

Cockroaches love starch so much that they sometimes eat book bindings and wall paints which contain starch.

Similarly, they can eat cardboard and paper, such as discarded pizza boxes or paper bags which contain food. (They sometimes even eat clean cardboard, if there is no other food available.)

3. Grease

Another cockroach favourite is grease.

Grease is a ready source of fat, and cockroaches can feed on it nearly everywhere.

It’s exceptionally hard to remove grease completely off of a surface like food plates or cooking utensils. But cockroaches find it easy to feed on even a thin film of grease found even on a wall next to where someone has used a frying pan.

This means it’s vital to remove grease from anywhere near your cooking area. Because if there is grease, cockroaches are not far behind.

4. Garbage

An all-time cockroach favourite is, and it is a wide category, garbage. And especially in a non-veg loving city of Kolkata, it’s a feast for them.

Garbage is like a buffet for the roaches, as it is home to some of the major sources of food for them.

The strong smell of compost and garbage brings cockroaches looking for a meal, and hence one should never leave a full garbage bin in the house for any length of time.

The fact is that any kind of organic matter is food for a cockroach, which makes a garbage bin the most fertile breeding ground for them.

So guys, always be precautionary about your hygiene and there are multiple pest control in Kolkata that can help you stay safe.