Design Blueprint: Cockroach Gel Dot Grid
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121580): Gel bait is applied as small dots near harbourages, and tubes are sold with little guidance on how far apart the dots may sit. This study models 20 m of kitchen harbourage line, a mean nightly foraging distance that gives each dot 1.1 m of effective coverage, a starting population of 400 German cockroaches, and a nightly population projection including reproduction and secondary transfer through faeces and remains. At 1.1 m spacing, 19 dots using 1.9 g of gel costing USD 0.89 bring the population below 10 percent of its starting size in 21 days. At 1.6 m spacing the same point takes 38 days; a Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225812296
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