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Professional Cockroach Pest Control

Protect your family from disease carrying cockroaches with professional cockroach pest control from GoPest

Cockroach Control Bendigo and Central Victoria

For professional cockroach control and specialist cockroach pest control treatments call the cockroach experts at Go Pest.

Cockroaches are disgusting and carry a range of diseases, and allergens in their spent skins and droppings are known to cause allergic reactions and asthma.

It’s important to get on top of a roach problem quickly to protect your family from disease.

With 80% of the cockroaches hidden in their “nests”, Go Pest use specialist cockroach products to eliminate the entire population, even the ones you can’t see!

Call the experts at Go Pest to protect your family from disease carrying cockroaches

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Our Professional Cockroach Pest Control Treatments

Before we carry out any treatment we carry out an inspection to determine the species present, the location of the problem and the potential causes.

Identifying their key hiding places, where they are breeding and how they are entering the building are key to develop a successful roach treatment.

For German cockroaches, it is especially important to identify as many of their hiding places as possible.

Large cockroaches:

Large roaches are included in our general pest treatment. However, if you have a major infestation, we may need to carry out a specific roach treatment. For large species, such as the American and Australia cockroaches we focus on the perimeter of the building, around drains and garbage bins, and in the roof void and sub-floor. Large roaches typically live outside and the treatment is designed to prevent them entering the building. We use a combination of sprays and dusts to provide long lasting protection. 

German cockroaches:

To treat small roach species, such as the German and brown banded roaches, we mainly use cockroach baits, with sprays or dusts used for spot treatments in areas where baits cannot be used. As these small species only live inside buildings, the treatment is focused inside at the sites of infestation. Depending on the nature of the infestation, a German cockroach treatment may require more than one visit.

Up to 80% of the cockroach population (mainly the young cockroaches) remain in their hiding places, and their hiding places can be difficult to locate. This is where roach baits come in, utilising natural cockroach behaviour to bring about their downfall.

Professional cockroach gel baits contain a highly attractive food matrix and a slow acting insecticide.

Roaches feeding on the bait do not die immediately but return to their nest. This is vital for success, as their vomit and droppings contain small amounts of the insecticide.

Disgustingly, other roaches find this vomit and their droppings highly attractive and in eating it, they ingest the insecticide and die, wiping out the nest.

As long as enough bait is placed near all the hiding places, the roach bait will be spread amongst the population, ensuring complete elimination.

Large cockroach treatments, whether part of our general pest treatment or specialist roach treatments, generally come with a 3-month warranty. Exceptions to this are infestation where there is an external source of infestation which we cannot control (which we assess on a case by case basis) and commercial cockroach treatments, which are also assessed on a case by case basis, but are generally covered by a regular service schedule.

For German roaches, we guarantee elimination, but do not offer any long term warranty. This is because German cockroaches are generally brought into buildings by accident by the resident (inside cardboard boxes) and therefore are beyond our control

Go Pest - More than just Cockroach Exterminators

Many customers search online for a “cockroach exterminator” as they want to get rid of cockroaches fast. However, at Go Pest we view ourselves as pest managers. We still get rid of roaches fast, but we’re smart how we go about it. It’s not just about cockroach extermination.

With cockroaches, especially German cockroaches, it’s important to make sure we carry out an inspection to find the cause of the problem and identify all their hiding places. This allows us to apply the product in all the correct places and recommend the necessary remedial actions to maximise the performance of the treatment and prevent a cockroach infestation re-occurring. 

Types of Cockroaches

There are two types of cockroach species – large cockroaches (such as Australian and American cockroaches) and small cockroaches such as the infamous German cockroach and brown-banded cockroach.

Large roach species generally live outside in damp areas – garden beds, sewers, drains, garbage bins and sub-floors. They generally come inside “by accident” on when foraging for food. Large roach species can be up to 40 mm long. American and Australian roaches are capable of flying in warm weather.

Small roach species are “domestic” cockroaches – they only live indoors. In houses, they are generally introduce by accident (eg. inside cardboard boxes). In units, they can move between floors and units using the utility pipe conduits. German cockroach adults are only 15 mm long, with the newly emerged nymphs (babies) only 2-3 mm long. German roaches do not fly.

How to Prevent a Cockroach Problem?

1) Make your home less attractive for large cockroaches:

  • Eliminate or trim back garden beds immediately around the perimeter of your home
  • Keep wood piles and other stored goods away from the building
  • Don’t store goods under the house or in the roof void… or if you do, only use sealable plastic boxes (not cardboard)

2) Prevent roaches entering the building:

  • Fill in any cracks in the floors, walls and around pipework
  • Make sure insect screens are well fitted
  • Check incoming packaging material, especially cardboard boxes, for cockroaches and cockroach egg cases.

3) Eliminate any potential food and sources of moisture

  • Clear up any spilled food
  • Clean down and under the oven / fridge regularly
  • Do not leave unwashed dishes out overnight
  • Do not leave pet food bowls out with food in or unwashed
  • Food should be stored in tight “cockroach proof” containers
  • Put rubbish into sealed bins and stack away from the house
  • Fix any leaking taps / pipework – cockroaches love moisture

Cockroach Control - FAQ

Cockroaches aren’t known to bite humans. Theoretically they could try and bite if you held them in your hands, but it would be no more than a nip (they aren’t venomous).

However, cockroaches will chew a variety of materials for food, which includes paper, cardboard and clothes.

Cockroaches most certainly are not clean! Their carry a large number of different bacteria and viruses that can cause health problems, such as Salmonella and E.coli – Not surprising as they can spend a lot of time in the garbage and sewers. They also produce a large amount of allergens which can cause asthma in sensitive people exposed to cockroach infestations.

Yes, some species of cockroaches can fly. In particular, the large cockroaches species such as the American and Australian cockroaches and quite good flyers, but will generally only fly in warmer temperatures. German cockroaches generally don’t fly, but will do a short glide if disturbed in warmer temperatures.

However, some cockroach species have no wings or reduced wings and so cannot fly. There can also be differences between the males and females of some species.

To get rid of German cockroaches required a good knowledge of German cockroach behaviour and a range of products. For this reason generally a professional cockroach treatment is required to control German cockroaches.

Typically the treatment will involve using a combination of baits, sprays and dusts. It is important to carry out a thorough inspection to identify all the potential hiding places. It is quite common for a treatment to consist of more than one visit before elimination is achieved.

Cockroach baits are one of the key products for professional cockroach control programs, particularly for German cockroaches.

They tap into natural cockroach behaviours. Foraging cockroaches are attracted to and feed on the bait. (Which means it is not critical to exactly locate all hiding places). Baits contain a slow acting insecticide, which means the cockroaches often get back to their hiding place before dying. Insecticide is found in their vomit and faeces, and the young cockroaches back in the “nest” love to feed on these. As a result, the bait can actually eliminate the whole population.

However, the success of a baiting program depends on the bait chosen (some are better than others), the location where the bait is placed and how much bait is applied.

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