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Soil-dwelling ants are at risk of pathogen infection so when choosing nesting sites, so new ant queens reduce this risk by avoiding contact with certain pathogens. They select safe nesting sites by detecting odors formed by dirt bacteria that prevent the growth of ant-infecting fungi, this is the first time that this been found to affect the nesting location of newly mated queens. Perhaps this will help with planning to change soil microbiota of invasive ants, where its rapid spread has caused economic and ecological issues.

New Ant Queens attracted to Soil Microbes

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It’s that season again where spiders start coming inside looking for mates, warmth and food – other insects. If you’re afraid of spiders, and most people are, here are some tips to keep them outside where they belong. We have 64 common spiders in B.C. but here are the main ones: Wolf Spiders, Brown Recluse, Sheet Web Weaver, Jumping Spider, Crab Spider, Daddy Long-Legs, Black Widow, Hobo Spider and the Tarantula. House spiders grow in numbers when egg sacs are carried in on furniture or building materials. From there, they mate and generally live in or under the same house throughout their entire life. Here is how to get rid of spiders.

1. Move garbage cans away from the house, flies around garbage’s attract spiders.

2. Turn off outdoor lights, they attract insect and therefore spiders.

3. Grow eucalyptus around your house, they don’t like it.

4. Spray vinegar around the house and especially in small crevices around your home.

5. Clean up and declutter your house

6.  Clean the garden and keep plants away from the perimeter of your home.  

7.  Seal up the cracks and openings around windows and doors.

8. Bleach can be used as a homemade pesticide so spray in areas where spiders are lurking.   

The Season of the Spiders  

The Season of the Spiders  

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Rats can make their homes in the most filthy parts of any city, the sewers. Here are some things that you may not know about these rats.

1. We are vaccinating rats by feeding them rat poison that doesn’t kill them but actually helps them mutate to be poison resistant.

2. A female rat gives birth to over 81 mischief (babies) a year.

3. Sewer rats survived atomic bomb tests in the 1940s.

4. Sewer rats can damage the foundation of buildings by digging their burrows.  

5. Sewer rats can sense danger – so they will try to escape, lie low and return when it is safe.

6. They practice their own population control by eating young or weaker rats.

7. They eat only eat 10% of their body weight at any meal and hoard food in their underground burrows.

8. They can gnaw through plastic pipes, irrigation systems, garbage cans, wood boxes, dry wall, and even concrete.

9.  Rats make their nests on the debris you flush down the toilet

10. As well as swimming and burrowing, rats can climb up vertical walls if the surface isn’t too smooth.

11. At any given time, you probably aren’t more then six feet away from a rat.

Rats living in Sewers

Rats living in Sewers

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As we end another summer wasps are on their last push for anything sugar, be it ripe fruit in trees to pop cans on the deck. As the queen ends her reign, she produces more queen that fly off to find an acceptable location to hibernate and start a new nest the following year. Old nests will never be reused as they know that parasites maybe present. All the female worker will soon begin to die-off. When the temperature goes below 11 degrees Celsius, it’s too cold for them to physically move around. Next spring, the new queen will search for food be it other insects, and start laying eggs. Those eggs will be the workers that do everything except lay eggs.

  

Wasp Season – going- going

Wasp Season – going- going

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As summer fades, why do rodents want to get into our homes, well there are several reasons. As the weather starts getting wetter and colder, rodents begin to look for shelter and there is nothing better than a well-insulated heated home. Rodents also need a benign place to produce off spring in the cold months and an attic or crawl space is the perfect place, secure and warmer then the outdoors. Rats and mice are opportunistic feeders, eating whatever they come across, be it grass seeds, fertilizer, plastic or food in your pantry. Our homes are like a walk-in grocery store for rodents and as food outdoors dries up, the lucky ones that find a way into our homes have hit the jackpot. So if rodents discover your house as paradise give us a call and we will send them packing.  

Summers out – Mice and Rats come in

Summers out – Mice and Rats come in

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The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) works to educate consumers about the dangers and health threats of rodents a.k.a. rats and mice during Rodent Awareness Week: Oct. 18-24, 2020, they encourage public vigilance against mice and rats. Because we have been altering our regular life styles in response to Covid, rodents are not able to source their usual food sources (restaurant dumpsters) forcing them to move to residential homes to find their food. There were more than 20 million online searches on the topic of rats and mice in July 2020, and a 25% increase in rodent sightings in the kitchen in homes during that same time frame.

Rodent Awareness Week

Rodent Awareness Week

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The top creepy crawlies that are often spotted loitering in homes in Delta throughout the year are now revealed. As summer starts to turn into fall and we begin to start spending more time indoors, a number of insects often come with us. Many of the pests search for shelter in our warm homes. While many insects prefer carpets to rooms with wooden floors, other places such as basements, attic, craw space can also be striking to small creatures due to their probable moisture and variety of hiding places. So here is a list of the top spine-chilling insects you’re most likely to see in your home: ants, cockroaches, earwigs, sowbugs, fleas, silverfish, moths and the big one – SPIDERS.

Delta’s Creepy Crawlies

Delta’s Creepy Crawlies

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The bamboo rats are four species of rodents of the subfamily Rhizomyinae usually found in South, Southeast and East Asia. Bamboo rats vary in size, from the greater bamboo rat, which is typically 25 cm long and weighs from 1 ½ lbs to over 9 lbs. They are all large slow-moving rodents that live and forage in wide-ranging burrow systems and infrequently spend much time above ground. They feed on the roots and bulbs in the soil. The lesser bamboo rat, feed principally on bamboo and live in dense bamboo thickets. All the bamboo rats are regarded as agricultural pests.  

Bamboo rat

Bamboo rat

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If you see a squirrel sprawled spread-eagle on the ground, either it is dead or its splooting a.k.a. pancaking. Splooting happens when an animal is overheated, it will lay flat on its belly and spreads its paws out to cool down. Splooting allows the animal to cool themselves by pressing their belly into the cool ground and is a great stretch for their hips. Because squirrels can’t sweat or pant, this is its best option to stay cool. There are three types of splooting, the classic-one leg remains under the body, the side- one leg is out to the side and the full – spread eagle.

Oh, just another Squirrel Splooting

Oh, just another Squirrel Splooting

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Ants play a vital role in our environment and eco-system, in fact the total mass of ants on earth is equivalent to the mass of humans (over one million ants for every human) and in some places ants can account for ¼ of the animal bio-mass in the area. There are over 22,000 species of ants and depending on the species they can live in colonies of 50 to 1,000,000 individuals. Ant colonies mostly consist of one (or several queens), a few fertile males called drones, and workers or soldiers that are wingless infertile females. Depending on the species, when conditions are just right, winged male drones and winged queens are born, they fly off in a nuptial dance and start new colonies. Most species of ants feed on both plant and animal origin, but other are exclusively herbivorous or cadaverous.

Ants – Some Interesting Facts

Ants – Some Interesting Facts

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