Yearly Archive December 30, 2021

Rats, you have rats and one died in the walls, so what happens then. In general, it will take around three to five weeks for a rat to completely decompose. The biggest issue when it comes to decomposing rats is the fact that they can smell extremely badly, and that smell can actually last for more than five weeks once the body has decomposed. There are five stages of decomposition; initial decay, putrefaction, black putrefaction, butyric fermentation and finally dry decay. Each stage gives off it’s own distinctive odor. Shortly after death, the bacteria in the intestine begin to digest the intestine itself, then the surrounding internal organs. The body’s own digestive enzymes spread through the body, contributing to its decomposition.

 Dead Rat?

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If you haven’t smelled the rancid odor of a dead rat, then consider yourself lucky. You will never forget it or the saturated stench that lingers in a house. The smell comes from a mixture of methane, sulfur dioxide, hydrocarbons and other chemicals that emanate from the decomposing rat body. The most effective way to eliminate the smell is to find and dispose of the body, then disinfect the area. BUT, if you can not find the dead body – the source of the putrefying odor, then how do you get rid of the smell. The truth is you really can’t get rid of the smell until the rat body has finished decomposing, which can be 3-5 weeks depending on the location of the deceased. You can mask the smell with vinegar, ground coffee, baking soda in water, or use a product called Ona which is an odor-neutralizing product.

What is that SMELL – A Dead Rat?

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A flea invasion can cause serious stress on your pets and family’s lives. Dogs, cats, or other hairy pets that spend any time outdoors can pickup fleas and hitchhike a ride into your house. To protect pets, your vet can also prescribe an oral pill or skin medication that will reduce your pet’s risk of fleas. The growth stages of these blood suckers: eggs, larvae, and pupae, hide in carpets, under baseboards and furniture. Vacuuming daily and changing the bags or emptying the canister frequently is essential. Also, wash your pet bedding in hot water, as hot water will destroy eggs and mature fleas. If the flea infestation gets out of control, just give us a call for a quote.

 Flea Problems??

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In Delta, 50% of every home has ants indoors and 100% outdoors. When you have these irritating ants in your home, there is one quick fix to temporarily get rid of these mighty six legged homewreckers. You don’t have far to go to get it either, it’s with all your baking goods – baking soda.  Merely sprinkle a very fine dusting of soda any where to are seeing them coming and going. The ants will get the baking soda on their fine hairs of their legs and because they are continuously cleaning themselves, they will ingest the soda. The soda reacts with the ant’s digestive chemicals and produces carbon dioxide bubbles, which explode the infected ant from the inside out. If they regurgitate the soda in the process of feeding other ants, larvae or the queen- this could (in theory) kill off the entire nest.

Do You Have Ants? Offer them a Soda – Baking Soda

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If you see one cockroach, then there is likely ten to a hundred hiding in your house out of sight. Roaches can trigger allergies from their saliva, skin and droppings, and is the leading trigger of allergies and asthma attacks in Canada. Children with asthma are most vulnerable. Keeping your home clean is the number one way to make your house less appealing to roaches, as they are quite adaptability. Garbage cans should always be closed, the kitchen should be spic and span, and pet food should always be put away and stored in hard plastic. Vacuuming is also very important, at least twice a week.    

Roaches and Roach Allergies

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It seems now with climate change or the new normal is causing longer, hotter summers and mild winters, that there are more bugs around all around. It’s not like there are hundreds of them rather just a few that a flyswatter can usually take care of. But sometimes, they don’t go away such as bed bugs, ants and silverfish. All these insects can be notoriously hard to find where they are coming from and how to actually get them gone. These insects can still survive for several months without food and water are resilient enough to survive temperatures from freezing to boiling hot. If you have pests you just can’t seem to control, call Go Green Pest Control to schedule an appointment for a pest inspection

One of the questions I often get is, how do you keep the pests outside? If you know what to do its easy!  If you’ve googled it and still get insects indoors then it could be the food you feed your pet’s that’s enticing them indoors. Indoor pets should be trained to eat at a certain time of day and the uneaten food, along with the bag of pet food, should be stored in an airtight sturdy container. This will stop ants, silverfish and vermin from being attracted to said food.  You can do the same for outdoor pets. Get more tips and great pest control with Go Green Pest Control, Delta B.C.

Pest Food a.k.a. Pet Food

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Proper identification of the species is critical to correctly manage and develop an effective strategy to stop and eliminate ants. If you’ve discovered ants in your kitchen and cannot find the source, you may be dealing with sugar ants, these guys are attracted by multiple foods changing daily. There are a number of home remedies and over-the-counter products that promise to kill sugar ants but few work and most are not safe to handle. One of the best solutions for handling this pest problem is to call Go Green Pest Control, we can help you assess which problem areas of your home need to be addressed.

Sugar Ants – Maybe?

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Pantry pests infest stored foods and can carry diseases that can make you sick. When you think of pantry insects, moths might come to mind but did you know that there are several other pests that can be in your pantry, like the cigar beetle, drugstore beetle, merchant grain beetles, flour beetles and rice weevils. Here are some things you can do to avoid pantry insects: store pantry items in hard plastic or glass storage containers with tight-fitting lids. Most of these pests originate from grocery store, so look for tears in the packaging and don’t buy bulk foods- or at least be very vigilant. Keep your pantry clean by vacuuming often and cleaning up any spills.

Pantry Insects

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Centipedes do have a lot of legs, they can actually have anywhere from 15-177 pairs of legs with one pair per segment, always have an odd number of pairs of legs, and they can be 10 cm long. Nocturnal by nature, the house centipede searches for food during the night. They have little mouths and large claw-like structures that contain a venom gland. What they really like to eat are other pests like fleas, ants, beetles, cockroaches, silverfish, spiders, and termites. They bite and sting, which may feel like a bee sting. Those people that are allergic to bee stings, centipede poison can be dangerous too.

Centipedes   

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