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American cockroaches, Periplaneta americana (L.), left undisturbed, often develop to enormous numbers and become major pests in sanitary sewers throughout much of the world. They are also domiciliary pests in many places, especially in southeast Asia. Moving from sewers, they often invade surroundin...

The ability of Aprostocetus (Tetrastichus) hagenowii (Ratzeburg) to find oothecae in plumbing chases infested with American cockroaches was evaluated using different release strategies for six weeks. This pilot study used forty-three plumbing chases. Chases were assigned one of four treatments (rele...