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Roaches are the oldest type of insects
as per research, and they are considered
to be self-adaptive in any environment.
There are about 4500 kinds of species in
Roaches among which most of the species
are found in the human environment, and
some are found as pests in the garden. Since
cockroaches feed mainly on the organic matters,
household cockroaches are destructive to
an extent but not equals to those found
in the garden because the garden roaches
destroy the plants, vegetables and fruits
intensively. More population of cockroaches
will be a menace to control.
Around 50 species exists in United States
and in common, types like American cockroach,
Brown banded and German cockroaches found
there. Cockroaches are observed to breed
in moist area and especially driven by the
foul smell. American Cockroaches in special
have pair of wings that help in their quick
locomotion. Thus it needs effective control
before they damage whole garden or other
organic
matters in the house. The insect belongs
to nocturnal type, and it is not seen in
the daytime often. They start to invade
during night times from the there breeding
place.
Using synthetic insecticide for control
of roaches is not sufficient enough to eradicate
the whole population. Consequently, as an
alternative treatment, use of organic insecticides
revealed better results than the synthetic
insecticides.
Neem oil one such bio-insecticide has the
ability to repel the insect from their breeding
place thereby avoid the damage completely
caused by them. It has also been proven
that application of neem oil as insecticide
can control most of the insect species.
The specialty of Neem oil is that it terminates
the insect groups which have strong resistive
power against other insecticides, and it's
because of a complex constituent Azadirachtin
that breaks the resistivity capacity in
insects on its feeding. Furthermore, Salannin,
an insecticidal compound present in neem
oil has the property of repelling biting
insects, in particular. Thus, both these
constituents of the Oil help in the control
of Cockroaches.
Spraying of Neem
oil over the breeding area once or twice
in a week can resist the roaches from their
invasion into the host area. However, certain
precautionary measures need to make sure
before using neem oil spray that first consists
of the avoidance of spraying at high exposure
of sunlight in the garden
and during the visits of beneficial insects
like bees, ladybugs, etc.. Moreover, deter
spraying the oil over the plant which has
damaged root system as it will increase
the decay.
Author: Adam Teaser - neem
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