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German_cockroaches
document updated 9 months ago, on Feb 20, 2024
unorthodox methods for German cockroach control
using a UV light / blacklight to locate cockroach feces, molts, and egg sacks
UV lights are commonly used to find urine and feces stains with larger animals, but what about insects?
most arthropods fluoresce, not
just
scorpions
That photographer, Nick Bay, documents the wavelength he uses.
General suggestion: try 365nm
. Stick bug (Phasmatodea): 365nm.
Bird dung spider
: 365nm.
UV lights
are
successfully used for locating bedbug exoskeletons
biopesticides
, perhaps especially
entomopathogenic fungi
Beauveria bassiana
— TODO: does this ever target tarantulas?
TODO:
lots of academic journal articles here
Lecanicillium muscarium
— TODO: does this ever target tarantulas?
(TODO)