Yearly Archive April 23, 2020

Many businesses and organisations are supplying a wide range of products and services that are needed to keep all sectors of society running during this pandemic, but many non essential businesses have shut down operation, leaving the proverbial door open to infestations of pests . Many common pests (rodents, flies, cockroaches, birds, stored product insects, fleas and ticks) are vectors of diseases and contaminates, in fact over 55 pathogenic bacteria, viruses, protozoa and helminths. Empty buildings provide a picture-perfect harbourage for pests to shelter and breed, damaging many parts of buildings to gain access and get around buildings to find food and nesting places. Businesses should adopt a thorough pest control program to protect their buildings from pests to enable operations to be started again as soon as possible after restrictions are lifted.  

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Carpet beetles can be an annoyance in your home. Only the larvae feed on fabric eating their way through rugs, clothes and furniture. They can also sometimes cause an allergic reaction. Their larvae, the young carpet beetles, are 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, and are a tan brownish. They’re covered with bristles and shed their skin as they grow. Some people can be allergic to larvae bristles or skin that’s been shed causing itchy skin, rashes, which looks like welts or bites that a bed bug or fleas can give you, and may cause a burning sensation and hives. The symptoms of an allergic reaction will go away once the carpet beetles and their shed skin are eliminated from your home.

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These flies are called scorpion flies because their enlarged abdomen resemble a scorpion’s tail and stinger. They lives near but not in water and needs moist, cool habitats to breed and develop. They spend most of their lives hanging on leaves and branches, looking for insect prey. In spite of its alarming looks, they don’t bite or sting humans as their not venomous. Scorpion flies do not cause harm or damage to homes. Interestingly, females select their partners based on gift offerings of prey.

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Restaurants shut down and the lack of food and garbage- what is a rat to do?? They are stressed!!! With businesses closing and cancelling their pest control – rats are having a field day. Composts are now becoming buffets for rats. So far, there are no reported cases of rats or mice spreading the novel coronavirus, but rodents can spread approximately 55 diseases to humans either directly through contact or indirectly. Rodents are vectors for disease, everything from salmonella to food poisoning and their fur can also carry bacteria and their droppings can trigger asthma attacks. So avoid attracting rats and mice to their property so give us a call and we’ll help protect you and your property.

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Coronaviruses generally have a varied range of host animals but bats, rodents and primates have the greatest risk of transmitting pathogens to humans. Just being in contact with one of these creatures can cause a virus to spread. Its us humans that drive these virus outbreaks causing are own problems and we enable the mixing of these varied animal species, both animal and domestic. We do this by keeping wild animals as pets or in zoos, as well as, live animal markets that sell wildlife i.e. wet markets (in Wuhan where animals were traded is the epicenter of COVID-19). Bats, primates and rodents are host to a higher number of zoonotic viruses, and they are the highest risk to us.

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As Delta’s rats face a growing food shortage, with the closure of restaurants and the lack of foot traffic in popular areas, this will have a severe impact on rats. Rats can be neophobic, ( having an extreme or irrational dislike of anything new or unfamiliar) meaning that those traps you set and that poison you laid out probably won’t work very well. Rats reproduce at a incredible rate, mating over 15 times in 8 hours and producing eight litters of 6-8 rats yearly. Long-term effects of starvation on these rats means an increase in hostile behavior and more interest in getting into homes. A food shortage on rat populations can result in various results. First, they will begin to attack each other for food, then they will begin to disperse, traveling kilometers in search for food and finally if they don’t find food they will die, or begin to invade more homes.  

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Mice aren’t just annoying, they are disease carrying rodents. A single mice can produce over a hundred offspring in a year and just think off the multiplier when the babies begin breeding. If you are using snap traps, stick pads and poison, all these are not enough to getting rid of those cute adorable mice. The next three steps include sealing off the entry points into the house, cleaning up and decontaminating the house. Mice can squeeze through a gap as small as 6 mm, so if you actually measure 6 mm next to the gap under a door, you’ll see how small it really is. So you need to seal off the cracks, gaps and holes throughout your house. Mice are also attracted to your home because of food crumbs, dry stored products and cotton. So keep food in metal containers or thick plastic containers with tight lids. Every where a mouse has been needs to be decontaminate, surfaces cleaned with bleach solution and all clothing washed, and furniture, rugs and carpet need to be commercial steam cleaned.

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Mason bees are a little smaller than a honeybee and blue-black in color, they actually look like a extremely well fed fly. They are very effective pollinators. Solitary bees, the females are the only ones with the ability to sting, with extreme prejudice. In the wild, they lay their eggs in small cavities but are very happy to lay their eggs in man made wooden blocks with holes drilled or cardboard tubes and paper straws- because they don’t  mine their own nesting cavities. Female Mason bees forage for pollen and nectar and pack this food into the far end of their nesting cavity. Then she lays an egg and seals up the cell. This process continues until the bee has filled the entire chamber with a series of pollen/nectar/egg cells – usually for 4-6 weeks. Larvae hatch in a couple days, eat the food and spin a cocoon and pupate. By fall, the insects look like an adult bee, but they remain inside their cocoons throughout the winter.  

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With Covid 19 in full swing, all restaurants are virtually shut down except for take-out, there is a definitely a lack of scraps for rodents, or more specifically rats. What we are seeing now is rats going into alarm mode and beginning to run every where to look for food. Call out for rat issues has been up by over 200% from this time last year, as rat-free neighborhoods have become flooded with Norway rats romping in the middle of the day. Even worst, the lack of rat food has caused rats to attack each other and go full cannibal holocaust. So it time to start rat proofing your garbage cans as its not just the coons that will be tearing apart your garbage’s.  If your house is not rat proof, its time to get an expert out and seal off all entry points as the next rat black plague is here.  

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Slugs and snails are soft-bodied animals but snails can withdraw inside their shell and stay alive for several years. Moisture is a key requirement for the two and they both eat plant leaves, flowers, and fruits, particularly those at ground level, causing considerable damage to plants in gardens and flowerbeds. Destructive to flowerbeds and gardens, slugs and snails particularly enjoy eating violets, strawberries, and lettuce. Both slugs and snails lay eggs in the spring and summer. Preventing slugs or snails begins with eliminating their hiding places. Put planters and flower pots onto racks or stands. Remove lumber and stones that can provide a damp hiding place.

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