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The raccoon is a native animal to Delta, and is one of the most successful animals in our urban environment (next to rats of course). Raccoons have adapted well to rummaging through human garbage for food. The adults are active throughout the year, where males tend to travel in wide areas and females generally remain close to their dens. The babies or kits are usually born from late March into May, usually five babies per year. These animals are problematic to control so the first thing is to realise is that raccoons learn rapidly, and if they come across human garbage then your house will become part of their nightly circuit. All garbage cans should have a well sealed top and shouldn’t be easy to topple over. A general rule concerning all animals this that you should keep all trees and shrubs cut back at least 6 feet away from your roof. Once a raccoon gets on your roof they look for flimsy soffit materials or roofing materials that they can access the attic through. If they get into your attic they can cause a lot of damage. Although raccoons don’t carry rabies in B.C., their feces may contain raccoon roundworm eggs that can be dangerous to people and pets.

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Spring has sprung and the biting and stinging insects are out. Any one of these poisonous scary crawlies can ruin your day, should they attack you.  

Wasps: White hot pain – they build small to large nests and defend them forcefully by stinging repeatedly. They eat just about any the moves.

Black widow spider: Really big venom glands – although the black widow spider bite is seldom fatal, it’s the ladies that dole out the venom that is over 14 times stronger than that of a rattle snake  

Fire ants: The sting feels like fire – they should be called dragon ants. These very aggressive ants that will attack animals and can survive in extreme conditions.  

Ticks: They spread diseases like babesiosis – these blood suckers can cause fever, chills, aches, rashes, and serious infection.  

Kissing bug: they carry a disease called Chagas – they transmit it by biting you, sucking your blood and then pooping in the wound to close it.  

Mosquito: They can carry the Chikungunya virus – just don’t walk in the shade and apply a lot of repellent!

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A new gadget has been designed to prevent damage in vehicles where rodents chew through electrics and wiring, under the engine hood. It works by releasing an ultra-high-frequency noise that is inaudible to humans but apparently the equivalent of a jackhammer to rodents with the acoustic pressure rated at 85dB (rock concert in your engine bay) It is a dedicated 12 Volt ultrasonic mouse deterrent for automobiles that draws only as much power as a clock . The device was designed after the need for something to protect automobiles from rodents nesting and ultimately resulting in damage to your vehicle. The machine effectively makes the area that it is installed painful place to build nests and ultimately deterring damage. It works great for protecting your new vehicle from rodent damage that is not covered by your new car warranty.  Another deterrent is anti-rodent insulated repair tape laced with capsaicin from hot chilli peppers.

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Its officially mason bee season and its time to get last years bee cocoons out or buy a bunch. I hung my mason bee house outside in a covered southerly exposed location and within a couple hours I already had a half a dozen males out and circulation around their bee house. For those of you that not are 100% mason bee aficionado (I am not)  you’ll need to rethink bees, mason bees are very easy to take care of and the most beneficial. There are no “workers” in solitary bee life there are only the females and males. Only females have stingers, but you literally have to grab one and squeeze it for it to sting you. They’re solitary bees, and earn their name because they make mud homes in cracks or holes in wood, stone, the ground or a wooden nest if you provide it. Before honey bees arrived from Europe, native bees, like masons, did 100% of the pollination. Mason bees are not particular about the flowers they harvest pollen from as they pollinate everything in their path, in fact one mason bee can pollinate as much as 100 honeybees. So having a couple dozen masons in your yard will give you the equivalent of a fair sized honey bee colony. So with the warmth of this spring, you’ll see these little pollinating dynamos arise to make your garden its most successful by far.

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Here we have two somewhat similar looking stinky creatures that use foul malodorous spray to fend off things they don’t like. Both striped polecats and skunks have coarse black fur with white spots and stripes. These thick-bodied animals all have long tails, short limbs and long claws used for digging in dirt. Skunks lack speed, so they don’t even attempt to outrun their attackers (or a simple dog barking).  As an alternative, they depend on on their reeking spray for defense. The overpowering liquid is a mix of sulfuric chemicals which they can spray precisely at attackers 2 to 3 meters away, with the obscene odour reaching up to a couple kilometers away. Skunks don’t really like to use their spray as their body only stores enough chemicals for about 7 sprays and require 7 days to replenish it. The striped polecat or zorrilla is actually a member of the weasel family, and they also use a well aimed, rank spray to deter any predators. Their spray can be smelled up to kilometer away.

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Carpenter ants have become a widespread problem throughout Delta. They make their nests in damp, rotting, dead or perfectly dry wood and create passageways so they can easily circumnavigate through the structure. Carpenter ants are small but the damage a colony can cause is not. Carpenter ants cause the most damage of all ants – that commonly infest structures. The amount of damage a carpenter ant infestation can inflict on a property can vary. If a colony has been aggressively infesting a property for a extended period of time, the structural damage can be very wide-ranging. That’s why it’s critical to have infestations treated as fast as possible by a pest control expert. One common sign of carpenter ant damage is the appearance of small, circular holes on the surface of the wood. The worker carpenter ants will exhume sawdust-like debris around or below the exit holes.  

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These insects create nests in wall or floor voids when indoors and target kitchen pantries and cupboards. They also nest outside and may crawl indoors through cracks and crevices in the foundation or doors and windows. Odorous ants release an unpleasant smell when crushed and like the grease ant they also bite. Next to the carpenter ant, these ants are the most commonly encountered ants inside homes in Delta. The most likely sign of odorous house ants is the foraging worker ants, although winged swarmers also might be seen. It is not recommended that homeowner applied liquid and aerosol insecticides as this creates more problems by scattering the workers and creating more nesting sites.  

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The carpenter ant is in the genus Camponotus which build their colonies in tunnels mined from damp, rotting or dry wood. They dig galleries into the wood grain (the softer part of the wood) to form their nests and make getting around the nest easier. Their galleries are not lined with mud or moist soil as termite galleries typically are. Once a new colony has established the ‘parent’ or main nest they begin to look to establish a satellite nest. The main nest contains a queen (or multiple queens), her brood, and workers. In the satellite nest there are workers, older larvae, and pupae. Workers create satellite nests when the parent nest become to large and they find another suitable nest that has a supply of food or water, which in our case is somewhere in our homes. One main nest may have several satellite nests and all of them maybe in one house. So the potential damage of carpenter ants will depend on the number and size of satellite nests in your home. The longer the infestation remains active the more potential damage may result.

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Its almost spring and your ants are about to come back to visit, oh yes, the carpenter ants. Next to the termite, the carpenter ant is the next most destructive insect that will invade the structure of your house and slowly chew it away. So lets have a look at carpenter ants. Carpenter ants are among the largest black ants in B.C. These insects usually build their nests in damp, sound or decaying wood out doors or right in your house. When these ants are discovered in a home, it is a sure sign that there was or is a water leak somewhere in the house and the water damage to the wood was never fixed. These insects will enter your house from the under the soil, along the ground, tree branches touching your roof or wires that lead to your house. When carpenter ants build a satellite nest, a nest in your house that co-exists with the main nest somewhere outdoors, they dig out tunnels in wood and drywall. Unlike the termite that eats the wood (cellulose), the carpenter ant just chews tunnels and discard the sawdust. Other than seeing the ants indoors, the other telltale sign you have a carpenter ant infestation will be the discovery of piles of sawdust. As the ants dig their tunnels, they built up piles of sawdust that need to be removed from the crime scene so the ant push it out away from the nest and sometimes out from the wall where you see it. A long-term infestation with numerous satellite nest in a home often means severe structural impairment and ugly cosmetic damage. To be continue, it a long story.

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