Yesterday everning received this very familiar call from one of my blog reader who currently have three BHs in the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia.
He was so jovial as if he hit a jackpot lottery or something closed to that.
Mr.A have been very facinated with my blog. He used to confess to me that every morning before taking his breakfast he will first switch his computer on and my blog site will be his first on the screen. Once he finished reading mine he will log on to Malaysiakini latest news.
Well his jovial reason being after nearly seventeen months he started his harvesting. He managed to collect about 30 nests and they were wonderful. He have begun his "White Gold" harvesting. The first is the best.
Among other thing that we spoke about was those cockcroahes whom he found hiding behind those corner covers holes.They are many and you can know by looking for their shit traces. If you peep through those empty spaces behind corner covers you will see these creatures hiding and most of them are very fat. They are fat because they are feeding on your bird nests !!!
I told him that he needed to eliminate all of them. The best is to set poison traps by sprinkling coackroach powder on those spots which these coahcroaches will fly to. Those hidden corners, latches and perhaps any areas that they love to hide during daytime.
The excercise to sprinkle the poison powder must be carried out every month until all these cockcroahes are eliminated.
You will find lots of dead cockcroaches on the floor after the treatment and you need to remove them. They give a kind of bad smell if you should accidently step on them.
Cockcroaches are predators to your swiftlets and you must eliminate them. Once you got rid all of them, you must regularly check their colony population by peeping through those corners again and again. The moment there are new sign of them, start the sprinkling of poison powder again.
Their life cycle is as follows:
Nymphs hatch from egg cases that the adult female cockroach deposits. As the nymph grows, it sheds its "skin" or exoskeleton so it can get larger. Each nymphal stage is larger than the previous one, and an adult cockroach emerges after the last nymphal stage. The figure shows a simplified image of the life cycle (egg stage, nymph stage and adult stage) of the cockroach.
Getting rid of them will helps your BH to increase the nest population ........
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