How often you must have heard the scream of your wife, or daughter—“Eeeeeek!” Running upstairs, breathless, you have discovered the cause of that blood curdling ghostly scream was nothing but a two and a half inch cockroach!

One of the most repulsive and ugly of all household creatures, a cockroach not only looks disgusting, but they act disgusting. Cockroaches can contaminate food and transmit germs, and disease carrying organisms, like staphylococci, strep, colform moulds, salmonella, yeast’s and clostridia.

They also spread parasites that cause toxoplasmosis, an illness that can causes birth defects if the pregnant women gets infected. Whenever it is dark, they would appear from seemingly nowhere and start spreading out everywhere, and nibble at everything (well…almost). They hide themselves in the dark alleys of the drains and drainpipes at daytime, and like party animals, would come out when it is dark—not in ones and twos, but in large numbers. Party animals—literally!

Diseases and cockroaches eat together, sing together, dance together and come hand in hand to you. Thus, there is no point making domestic pets out of cockroaches. Besides, they are disgusting in their food habits as well. They eat human faeces, rotten and contaminated food, book bindings, leather, and even the glue on canned food labels. They love to eat the glue in paper bags and often come to the new neighbourhood of your household in paper bags from the grocery store.