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Carpenter ants are not a welcome sight in your house, especially in the winter. Cold wet weather in the winter is the ideal time for carpenter ants to get the upper hand in your house; using the studs, plywood, o.s.b. and insulation to tunnel and make their satellite nests. So why in the winter, well- because you heat your house. Outside, carpenter ants go into a pseudo dormant state in cold weather but in your house they can continue to build since they have stored food in their satellite nests. The good news is that, carpenter ant treatment can be done anytime of the year, as they can continue to do tremendous structural damage long before the spring arrives.

Carpenter Ants – Again – In the Winter

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A recall was issued on foods produced by a Saskatoon company that produce and/or distribute a variety of foods from beans to milk powder. Salmonellosis infection is mainly transmitted in rats through ingestion of food and water contaminated with infected feces, urine and bedding material. Rats can carry this germ and not appear to be ill. Food that is contaminated with salmonella doesn’t necessarily look or smell off but can still make you sick, be it serious or sometimes deadly. Most healthy people may get short-term symptoms such as fever, headache, and diarrhea but more serious cases can be found in young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with W.I.S. People are advised not to use the products, return them and see a doctor if you did consume them and feel sick.

Salmonella Risk from Rat Infestation

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Even if you clean your home like it’s a hospital, it worth it to hire a professional pest control company to inspect your property for hidden bugs and rodents. Spiders, silverfish, ants and other bugs may hide almost anywhere, including crawlspaces, attics or right under your nose in a soap dish! The cold weather drives rodents and insects indoors, bringing germs and diseases such as brucellosis, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, pneumonic, Q fever, and psittacosis. An annual inspection can ensure your home is safe from vermin and bugs. Our technicians can keep your home or business free from all types of pests, so call 778-886-4111 for a quote.

Germ-Free Pest Control

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Although we are bug experts and we know that it’s impossible to keep every bug out of your Delta home – even with the help of an knowledgeable pest control professional. If you have more than your share of insects, it’s because of something you’re doing – or not doing like postponing or ignoring home maintenance and housekeeping jobs. You are making your home an open invitation for insects. To put an end to your bug problems try these: make sure your entrances are sufficiently sealed, reduce moisture in and around your house, cleaning up food messes and household garbage, cut back shrubs that are overgrown and close to your house, finally clean up debris around your yard.  

Stop the Insects from Bugging You

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Pestiferous in British English

ADJECTIVE  informaltroublesome; irritating2. breeding, carrying, or spreading infectious disease3.  corrupting; pernicious pestiferously (pesˈtiferously) ADVERBpestiferousness (pesˈtiferousness) Latin pestifer, from pestis contagious disease, pest + ferre to bring

Pestiferous 2022

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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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