eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-03-11 5 2 525 536 7125 article The Role of Sanitation in the Control of German Cockroach (Blattella Germanica L.) Elsiddig M. Noureldin 1 Hassan A. Farrag 2 General Directorate of Pest Control, Jeddah Municipality, Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Agriculture Research Corporation, Shambat Res. St., Khartoum, (Sudan). Seven different treatments consisted of four single applications and three combinations were applied to study the effect of sanitation on the control of the German cockroaches, namely: sanitation, lambda-cyhalothrin 2.5% CS, boric acid dust, imidacloprid 2.15% gel bait, combination of sanitation and lambda-cyhalothrin 2.5% CS, combination of sanitation and boric acid dust, and combination of sanitation and imidacloprid 2.15% gel bait. After 12 weeks, the highest cockroach catch reduction was obtained when using boric acid dust (94.4%), then sanitation and boric acid treatment (93.4%), followed by sanitation and lambda-cyhalothrin (82.5%), sanitation and imidacloprid 2.15% gel bait (77%), imidacloprid gel bait (54.8%), sanitation (17.6%) and finally lambda-cyhalothrin (-31.1%). This result indicates that sanitation has improved the effect of both the liquid spray and the gel and that boric acid seems to have a long residual effect since the top two treatments include boric acid. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol5no2/the-role-of-sanitation-in-he-control-of-german-cockroach-blattella-germanica-l/

Sanitation; German cockroach; Blattella germanica