How Do Roaches Enter a Home?
Cockroaches might ride into a home in a grocery bag or even in clothing. In an attached home or apartment, pipes and holes in adjoining walls, floors and ceilings provide speedy walkways and portals for these stealthy, nocturnal travelers. Roaches can swim into a home through sewer pipes. One cockroach moved through 385 yards (almost four football fields) of sewer pipe in Tyler, Texas. One cockroach in a home needs to have mated only once to produce many egg capsules with 16-40 offspring in each. And, some cockroaches don’t even need to mate to produce offspring. One cockroach can quickly turn into a full-blown infestation.
