Pest Guides

Identification decides the treatment

A German cockroach breeding inside a kitchen cabinet and an American cockroach arriving up a drain look similar to most people, but they need opposite responses — and the wrong one usually makes things worse. A repellent spray scatters a German cockroach population deeper into the building instead of removing it.

These guides cover what each pest looks like, where it actually lives on a Pakistani property, why it comes back after treatment, and which control method matches it. They are written for the housing and climate here: shared drainage risers in apartment blocks, floor gully seals that dry out, and monsoon flooding that pushes drain populations indoors.

If you are working out what you have, start with the species comparison guide.