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House flies are responsible for transmitting at least 65 harmful diseases and many skin and eye infections through indirect paths. They also transmit food-borne pathogens and their related toxin and resistance. House flies are known to carry and spread: cholera, conjunctivitis, dysentery, gastroenteritis, salmonellosis, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and many more due to their feeding and breeding habits. House flies will often feed on rotting or decaying material, as well as feces. You can catch their transmitted disease by eating or drinking food that a house fly has regurgitated, defecated, urinated, or landed on. And, you can catch their transmitted disease by using contaminated cooking or eating utensils and cutlery. The prevention of flies their diseases can be done by taking some practical actions to eliminate flies in your home.

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Now that we are in the colder wet months, mice will have been taking up shelter in homes to find food and warmth. If something seems out of place or there are small dark brown pieces of rice scattered around your kitchen, you’ll need to identify a budding problem and eliminate it before it becomes an plague. Encountering mice droppings, is a horrifying discovery, but even worse are the serious health issues associated with the presence of mice. Mice can produce almost 100 fresh droppings a night. They are 3-8mm in length and a dark shiny colour scattered randomly. Hantavirus (respiratory disease) is one of the most common diseases associated with mice droppings and urine, by touching the urine or dropping or inhaling their dust. Another nasty mouse-borne viral infection is Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis, this infection can lead to serious nerve issues. The first step in getting rid of mice droppings is to get rid of the mice… (contact a pro). To clean up any urine and droppings, wear gloves and use a disinfectant or a mixture of bleach and water.   

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Silverfish have been around for over 400 million years, making them one of the oldest species of insects to crawl the earth. Its name derives from the animal’s silvery light grey colour, combined with the fish-like appearance of its movements.  Silverfish are night-time creatures and are extremely sensitive to light. They prefer damp, high humidity conditions such as sinks, attics, kitchens, and damp basements. Many times people will find silverfish in sinks and bathtubs as a result of falling from a exhaust fan and not being able to climb out of the slippery surface of the sink or tub. These insect are mainly a nuisance pest but they do consume a diet rich in polysaccharides such as starch, cellulose and sugars found in books, wallpaper, paintings, clothes, dust, and kitchen and pantry’s. They are known to moult their entire adult lifespan, shedding their exoskeleton over 70 times and their exoskeleton can cause an allergic reaction. To get rid of silverfish use a dehumidifier, vacuum a lot and get a professional in to assess the situation.

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The most obvious characteristic of these ants is the smell of rotten lemony coconut that is released when they are crushed. These insects create nests in wall or floor voids and you will see foraging worker ants and or winged mating ants. They enter homes looking for food, preferring confections and dried products, and are likely to contaminate all the food they come into contact with. Kitchen pantries and cupboards are areas these ants prefer to build their nests near, especially if it is warm and moisture is near at hand. These ants are one of our local ants that actually bite. Should you experience odorous ants, its highly recommended not to use liquid and aerosol insecticide products because this likely will scatter the workers and create more nesting sites. Give us a call and we can go through the procedures to get rid of these stinky ants.

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As the fall is ending, mice have been looking for accommodations and food for their existence in the following chilly wets months. Mice are pretty fascinating individuals (although I don’t like them- at all) and here are some fascinating realities about the cousin to the rat. Mice can breed year-round with one female able to produce over 60 babies in a year. These omnivorous creatures will pretty much eat anything they can get. Mice have the astonishing skill to squash their bodies which allows them to jam themselves through openings as small as 5mm- roughly the diameter of a pen, so thoroughly inspect your house for any infinitesimal holes and gaps. Mice have really poor vision so they rely on touch, smell and hearing to navigate their world. Their teeth grow at the rate of 0.5mm in 24 hours so they need to continuously chew on everything to keep their teeth short. A mouse’s hearing is a lot better then ours as they can hear up to 100kHz (sound good). Mice are also know to jump pretty high – over a half a meter. 

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It’s that time again to do some preventative action to the outside of your house to help prevent rodents and other pests from wanting to get into your house this winter. You should not be surprised how much the outdoors can impact your life inside as landscaping techniques can ward off rodents and insects from coming inside. By keeping trees and shrubs trimmed at least a 3 feet away from the house, this can prevent easy access for rats and trim back a total of 6 feet for squirrels. If you use mulch for landscaping to prevent loss of water by evaporation, promote soil productivity, and keep weeds down, all kinds of pests like to use the insulating properties of mulch as a temporary home, so turn it at least once a season to disrupt their activity. Never put mulch next to the foundation, as well. If you are storing firewood, it’s important to check firewood properly before bringing it inside, all kinds of pests maybe lurking inside the wood. Also, stored firewood off the ground by a couple inches and keep it as dry as possible as carpenter ants will turn it into sawdust. If plants are brought indoors to protect them from frost, carefully inspect them for spiders and other insects.  

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Blog: Vole population seems to be peaking
Randy Bilesky / Delta Optimist
NOVEMBER 7, 2019 02:05 PM
VOLES
Voles live underground forming connected tunnels from which they can consume plant roots, depriving plants of water and nutrients.
Photograph By ROLF TISCHER FROM PIXABAY
Delta BC
Homeowners and local farmers hope that populations of voles regress after reaching record levels the last couple years. Voles live underground forming connected tunnels from which they can consume plant roots, depriving plants of water and nutrients. The population of voles seem to be peaking and hope is the destructive rodent’s numbers will soon take a nosedive. Although guesstimating the vole’s population is very difficult, damage to crops and landscaping shows their numbers are excessively high. Vole populations normally alternate, with populations peaking for three years in interludes of about seven years apart. As in previous years, the vole population will blow up but be quickly be reduced with an occurrence of disease that quickly brings down their numbers.
Go Green Pest Control owner Randy Bilesky is a long-time South Delta resident. Trained and certified, Bilesky has first-hand knowledge of the pest problems that local homeowners and business owners encounter.

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It’s the time of year when reports of raccoons wreaking havoc is on the rise. Raccoons are nocturnal mammals common throughout the lower mainland. These clever creatures have nimble hands and are intelligent problem solvers capable of opening latches, turning doorknobs, climbing, swimming, running at speeds of over 16 kilometers per hour and will remember how they got out of sticky situations in the past. The animals are more noticeable this time of year because they are on the move looking for somewhere it’s cozy and warm. With raccoons seeking warmth, now is the time to make sure your homes are sealed up, such as chimney caps, attic vent covers and loss soffit materials. Raccoons will also go after pet food left outside, as well as birdseed. Raccoons are known for carrying communicable diseases like rabies.  

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Home owners and local farmers hope that populations of voles regress after reaching record levels the last couple years. Voles live underground forming connected tunnels from which they can consume plant roots, depriving plants of water and nutrients. The population of voles seem to be peaking and hope is the destructive rodent’s numbers will soon take a nosedive. Although guesstimating the vole’s population is very difficult, damage to crops and landscaping shows their numbers are excessively high. Vole populations normally alternate, with populations peaking for three years in interludes of about seven years apart. As in previous years, the vole population will blow up but be quickly be reduced with an occurrence of disease that quickly brings down their numbers.  

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A cannibal wood ant colony was discovered in abandoned post-Soviet nuclear bunker in Poland. A colony of ants had survived for years after falling into a abandoned bunker with no means of escape, and had stayed alive by deliberately eating the dead members of their own kind. The colony was made up of only worker ants and had no obvious available food source so it was concluded that the thriving community was sustained by cannibalism. A larger ant colony above the bunker was slowly losing workers that accidentally fall through a small ventilation pipes leading into the underground bunker. When they were first found, there were over a million individual ants that couldn’t get back up and out of the bunker. The wood ants were consuming the dead bodies of their fallen buddies that were collecting on the bunker floor. Corpse consumption among wood ants is actually common among nest-mates as a important food source- even when there is no shortage of food.

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