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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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So how serious is it having lice? Having lice on your head leads to intense itching, then to scratching and can cause sores and secondary bacterial infections on the skin. These pests also pose a psychological problem, as their bites cause a tickling sensation and may result in anxiety, secondary infection and sleeplessness. To make thing worst, body lice can spread the following diseases: epidemic typhus, louse-borne relapsing fever, trench fever and vagabond’s disease ( when body lice infestation are long lasting, heavily bitten areas of the skin can become thickened and darkened). Getting rid of head lice can be done at home with the use of a nit comb, thorough body washing, and all clothing and bed linens should be washed in hot cycles.

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Real-life creepy critters can give homeowners a scare this Halloween. While it’s normal to see vampires, ghosts and other creepy crawlers walking up to your front door on Halloween in the form of trick-or-treaters, you don’t want a whole new infestation of bugs inside your house. Parents should be on the lookout for real-life ghoulish pests that come with those costumes purchased from second hand stores or rental stores. Make sure to inspect the costumes for bed bugs, clothes moths and carpet beetle larvae before dressing up to go trick-or-treating. Pay particular attention to the inside seams, looking for any signs of sticky white eggs, shed skins and the bugs themselves. Thirty minutes in the dryer on high heat will take care of these bugs.Having these bugs on the costumes while being worn is one thing but where ever that costume hits the floor or where it is stored, the bugs can infest the house. If you find these pests or any other real-life creepy crawlers hiding within the confines of your home, make sure to contact a licensed pest professional to inspect and treat the problem.

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Happy Halloween! – Ladner and Tsawwassen are gearing up for Halloween in the usual manner. Spreading fake spider webs, digging grave plots in front yards, carving elaborate shapes into pumpkins -Halloween season is here. To celebrate this spooky time, Go Green Pest Control and Exterminators gives you the top five creepiest bugs you can find in your home.

1. Asian giant hornet has a wingspan of 3 inches and a stinger that is  ¼” long, used to inject venom into the victim’s body. An individual hornet can kill forty honey bees per minute, that’s 2,400 in an hour.  

2. Black Widow Spiders are notorious killers – as the name and reputation actually come from the females’ habit of eating her male counterpart after mating. Their bite most likely won’t kill you, but it will cause some severe pain.

3. Earwigs get their name because they use their pinchers to burrow through the ear canal into the brains. Of course, this creepy pest fact is that myth behind its namesake is totally bogus.

4. Camel Crickets get their nickname from their back legs, since they resemble those of larger spiders, leading to myths of mutant spider-crickets. Camel crickets jump toward people when they feel threatened.

5. Spider Beetles are a common pantry pest that look more like large mites, since the creatures are so small they can infest all kinds of pantry products quickly without being seen. Freezing or throwing away the infested product is a good way to get the bugs out of your pantry. And, they can live for over 8 years without water.

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