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Here are some scary cockroach facts that probably won’t make you feel any better about ever seeing one.

1. They can easily make you sick from germs and bacteria and trigger allergies and asthma.

2. Cockroaches can fit through crevices as thin as a dime.

3. They can live headless, yes, headless for two weeks as they breathe through openings in their body.

4. Cockroaches are a very fast insect, the equivalent to a person running over 300 km/hour.

5. A female cockroach only has to mate once in her life and can give birth to over 800 baby a year.

6. They are nocturnal and will eat almost anything including trees, wood, cardboard and even their of feces.

7. A rhinoceros cockroach and can weigh 30 grams and live 10 years.    

8.  They’ve been here since the time of dinosaurs, live a month without food, two weeks without water.

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Fireflies are soft-bodied beetles that are also called glow worms, or lightning bugs for their visible use of bioluminescence during twilight to attract mates or prey. This chemically produced cold light can be yellow, green, pale red, or ghost blue. First, air rushes into the abdomen and reacts with the luciferin, that gives off the glow that you see in fireflies. Fireflies can even control the pulsating of the glow by regulating the airflow into their abdomens. Some female fireflies aren’t motivated by mating, and some will imitate the patterns of other species of fireflies to attract males to eat them alive.

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A dirty, cluttered house is an invitation to bugs to join your dwelling. Cleanliness plays a major role in enticing or discouraging pest invasions. So here are some suggestions to ensure that pests don’t feel welcome in your home. Wipe down your countertops and other kitchen surfaces with cleaners to remove food particles and smells. Put food into containers and dry goods can be stored in sealed jars and solid plastic containers. Insects are attracted to both leaks and puddles of standing water, so make sure faucets are working properly. Clear all your drain of food and gunge. Make sure to use a garbage can with a locking lid and regularly take your trash out. Seal windows and entryways with proper sealants and sweeps. A little housekeeping will keep the pest away.

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Ticks live well in both warm and cold weather. Ticks carry Lyme disease that is 10 times higher then reported because the signs and symptoms are not always easy to identify. The disease can affect more than one organ including the nervous system, the brain, gastrointestinal system, the heart, muscles and the joints. Mice and deer are carriers of ticks that are most active during both the fall and winter seasons in gardens, landscape plantings, backyard grasses and heavy wooded areas. To reduce your risk of coming into contact with ticks on your property: prune trees, clear brushes, cut grass short, no bird feeders or bird baths, and while outdoors where long sleeves, long pants, shoes and socks.

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So who is responsible for pest control, the tenant, the landlord, or the property management company? The answer is usually or should be found within your rental agreement and the cost of these services are most likely included in the cost of the rental. Some times, a landlord or property manager may pay for the first pest control application with continued treatments being made the responsibility of the tenant. In the end, the description used in the rental agreement decrees who is responsible for the pest control. It is recommended that landlords use Integrated Pest Management techniques for effective and long-term prevention or elimination of pests with a variety of technics such as preventing entry, inspecting, monitoring, and treating pests on an as-needed basis.  

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Cockroaches are destructive, disease-ridden, messy, stress producing, and really hard to get rid of. You don’t even know you have them until it’s a full blown infestation. They hang around dark and damp areas like under the refrigerator, under the sink, behind the stove, bathroom and kitchen cabinets, closets and shelves. They can live for months without food but only days without water, so finding leaky plumbing is a start. Next, clean the house so it is spotless, top to bottom spotless, including behind all appliances. Homemade or store bought cockroach baits and insecticides are a good start to reducing the infestation but the bottom line is you need a pro to get the job done to completion.   

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The serious rat problem we have in Delta isn’t going away. Rats destroy property, equipment, and contaminate food and spread disease. Without good housekeeping practices on your block, the rats will never go away. Here are some guidelines on how to handle the rat problem. Organize a meeting on your block regarding the rat infestation problem, appoint a rat inspector for your block and follow guidelines from https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthlinkbc-files/getting-rid-rodents. Next, distribute educational materials about rat control such as: make sure your block uses the right garbage cans, 90% of the time bird feeders are actually rat feeders, rats can survive on food grease alone, rats can crawl through a space as small as 12mm, bushes create ideal conditions for rats to hide and dig under to burrows, etc.

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Mice are very cunning and rather difficult to catch, and there is normally not just one but several. Even baited snap traps don’t always work as often the following day the bait is gone and there’s no mouse in the trap. Other then snap tarps and sticky pads, there are other ways of catching mice, even catching them live to release outdoors many kilometers away. You need to make sure that they don’t come right back in through the previous entryway by searching for the hole and blocking it off. Here are a few humane ways to trap mice that you can google: live traps, the peanut butter spoon and bucket trap, soda bottle and bucket trap and the coin and glass trap.  

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Ants may be small, but they can cause a wide range of major problems that can range from infuriating bites to structural damage to your property, all insect infestation brings with it the potential for costly problems. Here are some tips for how to get rid of ants naturally in your house. Before you treat your home for ants, you need to give all of the surfaces in your home a complete cleaning and store all open dried foods in tightly sealed containers or in the refrigerator. The natural ways to get rid of ants include disrupting their pheromone trails with essential oils like peppermint, clove, tea tree, lemon, or orange oil. Although very messy, you can use diatomaceous earth, boric acid and boron. And lastly, a simple mixture of white or apple cider vinegar with water sprayed on your floor is also effective.  

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Locating and eliminating the food and breeding source is the key to a long-term solution for flies that can impact our health. Here are some interesting facts:

-They can taste with their feet.

-They defecate a lot and spread a range of diseases.

– House flies can walk upside down.

– Flies are able to see behind themselves.

– The lifespan of a house fly about a month long, but a female can lay over 500 eggs in the short time.

– A house fly only lives for around 30 days.  

– House flies have amazing reaction times processing around 250 images in a single second.

– Male house flies have a specific region within their eye called the “love spot” that stays locked onto potential mates during aerial pursuit.

– Fly population under the right circumstances can go from 1 to 65,000,000 in 30 days.