Today, very often cockroaches are brought up in our homes, what these parasites eat, why they appear and how to fight them - these are the questions that we will find out today.
In the course of evolution, cockroaches turned into omnivorous insects: they are able to eat almost any food, so close proximity to humans is very convenient for them.
The special oral apparatus helps them to adapt to any quality of products in new living conditions. Let's find out what cockroaches eat in the apartment?
What is the oral apparatus in cockroaches?
The device for grinding food includes modified upper and lower lip, a pair of upper and lower strong jaws with palpi.
Before something edible gets into the digestive tract of an insect, it is tested for suitability with the help of 2 pairs of olfactory palpi attached to the branches of the lower jaw and the lip.
Nutrient substrate is clamped between the lips of the insect protruding forward from above and below, falling into the hollow. For reliable fixation of a piece of food available a pair of crescent mandibles.
The chewing of a food lump is carried out with the help Maxillus - Upper Jawshaving several sawtooth jags bearing the function of teeth. In parallel with the grinding in the oral cavity, the edible lump is wetted by saliva, rich in digestive juices.
The oral apparatus, adapted to the splitting of coarse food particles by strong chewing organs, is called gnawing. It is this type of oral apparatus in a cockroach. He opens his mustache with the opportunity to include in his diet almost everything that occurs on the way of the insect.
Diet
To nutritional and taste characteristics of food, the Prussians are unassuming: they are able to eat and process any organic substrate.
What eat cockroaches in the apartment? With their daily menu with success The following products are included:
- bakery products;
- macaroni, confectionery;
- vegetables fruits;
- meat and sausages, cheese;
- seasonings;
- jam, sweet drinks;
- man-cooked meals, leftover food, crumbs.
The main requirement for food is its availability; therefore, their diets are often fallen on the floor, and then the expired food residues left after poor-quality cleaning of the room.
Aroma enhancers and sugar accelerate the finding of food with the help of olfactory receptors of cockroaches, shaping their taste preferences. In the absence of access to human food, insects do not stop:
- newspaper, book glue, paper;
- cloth clothing or book binding;
- leather goods;
- starch paste;
- wallpaper
As we see a variety of types of food in cockroaches is very wide.
How long do cockroaches live without food?
The ability of insects to do without food for a long time is obliged not only by the low sensitivity of hunger receptors, but also by slow metabolism, low energy consumption for the processes of thermoregulation, respiration, and oxidation.
Red apartment dwellers maintain 40-45 days hunger strike as well black cockroaches - up to 75.
Dangerous roommates
We must not forget that whiskeys are able to bring sanitation to the apartment from places of unsanitary conditions and deliver them to pieces of food bacteria, viruses, protozoa, parasite eggs. The proximity of these insects is dangerous with helminth infections, intestinal infections, allergies, and bronchial asthma. There are also cases of human bites from cockroaches.
Therefore, at the very first signs of the invasion of these insects, measures should be taken to combat them. Measures must be taken very quickly, as baleen multiply even faster. Fortunately, now on the market there are many effective tools against cockroaches.
Well proven:
- powders: FAS and Clean House;
- gels: Dohloks, Global, Forsyth, Combat;
- aerosols: Raid and Raptor.
