Mini Doughnuts wrapper smells sweet and attracts cockroaches
"Cockroaches eat a great variety of food, including all food used for human consumption. They prefer starchy and sugary materials. They sip milk and nibble at cheese, meats, pastry, grain products, sugar and sweet chocolate. They also feed on cardboard, book bindings, ceiling boards containing starch, the sized inner lining of shoe soles, their own cast-off skins, dead and crippled cockroaches, fresh and dried blood, excrement, sputum, and the fingernails and toenails of babies and sleeping or sick persons."
"Uncovered garbage bins offer an excellent environment for cock-roaches to develop."
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resources/vector288to301.pdf
Fecal matter left on toilet seat and pools of body fluids left on bathroom floor attracts cockroaches.
"They feed on just about anything, even their deceased brethren, but they do have a sweet tooth and prefer to eat sugary and starchy items such as sweets, cardboard and book-bindings (1). Included in their rather diverse diet is their consumption of human detritus such as feces, sputum, toe nails, and bodily residue on surgical swabs."Fecal matter left on toilet seat and pools of body fluids left on bathroom floor attracts cockroaches.
(1) Rozendaal JA. October 1997. “Cockroaches.” Vector control: Methods for use by individuals and communities. World Health Organization.
"American cockroaches feed upon a great variety of materials such as cheese, beer, leather, bakery products, starch in bookbindings, manuscripts, glue, hair, flakes of dried skin, dead animals, plant materials, soiled clothing, and glossy paper with starch sizing. The most important aspect of cockroach damage derives from the insects’ habit of feeding and harboring in damp and unsanitary places such as sewers, garbage disposals, kitchens, bathrooms, and indoor storage indoors. Filth from these sources is spread by cockroaches to food supplies, food preparation surfaces, dishes, utensils, and other surfaces. Cockroaches contaminate far more food than they are able to eat."
http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/american-cockroaches
"Cockroaches will eat a great variety of materials, including cheese and bakery products, but they are especially fond of starchy materials, sweet substances, and meat products."
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/publications/books/housing/cha04.htm
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