Integrated pest management (IPM) for the German cockroach (Blattella germanica L.) in Jeddah province, Saudi Arabia

摘要

Six components {education, vacuuming, sanitation, cliemical spray (Lamtxia-cylialothrin 2.5% CS), dusting (boric acid), and baiting (imidacloprid 2.15%)} were used in selected houses in Jeddah province to evaluate the efficacy of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technique against German cockroaches for 12 weeks.The effect of (IPM) technique on the population counts of the German cockroach was significant at all the post-treatment cockroach counts compared with the initial 24h pretreatment counts and the conventional spray counts. This was reflected in the gradual suppression of the cockroaches mean counts at week two, week four, week eight and week twelve by percentages reduction of 90%, 96.5%, 99%, and 100% respectively