Treating domestic kitchens: Inspection – part one
Kitchens have the best hiding spots for pests, particularly cockroaches. Often times you will need to get down on all fours and inspect in the cracks and crevices that are sometimes in those hard to reach spots. Watch our expert take you through inspecting two of the high risk areas in a domestic kitchen and the potential hiding spots of each.
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Treating commercial kitchens: Harbourage areas
In this video our expert takes you through a commercial kitchen and point out the harbourage areas, particularly German cockroaches. When using a dust during treatment you should be thinking about the area that surrounds you before you apply the dust. Dust can easily contaminate a food preparation or living area if not applied from the right angle or with the right equipment.
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Treating domestic kitchens: Harbourage areas
Cockroaches are thigmotactic pests, which means they prefer to hide in tight places where they have something touching either side of their body and there is the relative safety of only one entrance and exit. When treating the kitchen, some pest controllers can overlook critical hiding spots like a knife block or a food warmer tray – both ideal harbourage areas as they are in vicinity of food, warmth and water.