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Title: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: John H on June 01, 2018, 13:59.: Just read;

The Spanish Health Board has warned that there is a “high risk” of a cockroach plague throughout the country this summer.

Rising temperatures paired with humidity due to heavy rainfalls over the spring are believed to be the trigger for the mass exodus of cockroaches towards urban areas.

The board has also warned that problems arising from this even could go “much further” than just hygiene. They could also contaminate food supplies and increase the risk of people contracting salmonella.

An American ‘super cockroach’ species has also been spotted in Spain, which according to reports arrived on board boats crossing the Atlantic.

The health board has recommended preventive measures including shutting off water and food supplies near suspected infestation areas, repairing cracks and crevices in homes and clearing potential nesting sites.

If residents discover any infested areas, they are advised to call pest control companies as their attempts to clear the area using domestic pesticides could “move the problem somewhere else” or “worsen” the situation.

Regards all

John

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Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: kevinb on June 01, 2018, 17:54.: Oh deep joy. For the first ten years we had our house never had a problem but get the occasional one now, think the beasties go in cycles, pity they can't come up with a plague for cockroaches.
Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: Corporal Jones on June 01, 2018, 22:12.: Cockroaches and rat's are always amongst us, it becomes a major issue when the local council and urb contractors choose as they did a couple of years ago to cut back on control measures.
Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: John H on June 02, 2018, 09:09.: In 14 years we’ve only ever had two in the house so no complaints here.
When I read of the problems some have with them we’d have been long gone!!

Regards all from a very dull GA

John

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Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: puddy-woo on June 02, 2018, 09:55.: Pleased to say have never had one. My daughter stayed in an apartment last year and there were loads. She ended up kipping on our sofa for her second week

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Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: steve watson on June 02, 2018, 16:33.: I’m please to say we have never had any problems with creepy crawlies over the last 14 years, hopefully the thunderstorms is say for today in GA will wash them all away !! Hope there not washed my way.
Keep us posted coming out soon , what they like on the barbie ????

Steve - sunny essex
Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: kevinb on June 02, 2018, 17:28.: We don't leave the smallest speck of food out, bread and cereal goes in airtight plastic containers and we always wash up immediately after a meal, I think if you leave food or dirty plates and saucepans around it's asking for trouble.
Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: gaveteran on June 04, 2018, 13:17.: In fifteen years we've had more trouble with snakes (2), rats (1) and mosquitos (14,678) than with cockroaches. Never a single one in the house. Perhaps because of my wife's brooms and mops (14)
Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: John H on June 04, 2018, 20:42.: I’m pleased to say that they are continuing to take safeguards on our community (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180604/40272512e3d03fd92c8eb76ea604125b.jpg)

Regards all

John

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Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: Corporal Jones on June 04, 2018, 23:04.: John tbat was the issue on puerto Marino a couple of years ago, some cheap skate in the Administration office cut back on pest control that year which led to roaches and rats. I had a rant at the guy at the office he statec you live in the countryside what do you expect. That year we found roaches in the house, how they got in we never worked out, the house was unoccupied at the time,scrupulously clean, with only teabags to eat.
Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: kevinb on June 06, 2018, 09:01.: I had a theory that roaches get in through the ventilation stack on our solarium, I've put a fine mesh over the vent louvres and all seems fine now.
Title: Re: CREEPY CRAWLIES: Health board warns of cockroach plague in Spain this Summer
Post by: Tony Gillam on June 06, 2018, 17:36.: We only had one in the fourteen years we owned until last year when we came down to pack up and had two in the space of a fortnight. One was a real big brute.