2012年5月20日 星期日

Pest Control Is Seasonal But You Can Do-It-Yourself If You Know What Insects To Watch For And When


Spring is the season when we see the biggest armies of bugs marching against us.

They spent all winter hibernating. They all gathered in their nests, and colonies, staying warm. They slept with dreams of all that food we humans carelessly leave laying around for them to feast on.

Then suddenly the weather turns warm, and those bugs wake up. Next thing you know they come out of the nests and colonies all at once. It's like a cloud of pests that fills our air.

As they start moving about, and get busy with their food collecting activities, the swarm spreads out. Those bugs head out in different directions, and return to their homes separately. Their numbers seem smaller for a while.

Then the eggs start hatching. The insects start growing their families. Next it's summer, and the bugs are everywhere.

The first warm weather invaders are the ants. They crawl all over your kitchen counter, and through your cabinets, leaving their pheromone trails in your food.

You easily handle an ant problem if you use the right baits, and put those baits in the right places. A couple weeks to a month, and the ants disappear for two years or so.

The insect that pesters me the most is the fly. Especially those big black bottle flies. You know the ones that constantly buzz around your head when you're trying to concentrate.

They fly so slow that you think they're easy to knock out of the air - until you try to hit them. Seems like every time you reach out for that fly swatter it turns away, and buzzes off just out of reach.

You'll easily handle most of the warm weather invaders with sprays. Look for the bugs around windows and doors. The light streaming in from outside attracts them. Get a good spray with the insecticide suspended in the liquid. It lasts longer.

With summer come the mosquitoes too. Those bloodsuckers can ruin your cookouts all summer long. Using fans placed around the perimeter of your party area helps because mosquitoes are weak flyers. They have trouble flying against the flow of air from a fan.

As fall comes on the insects start thinning out. Cooler weather starts driving them back toward the nest. They're on their way back to another hibernation period. Except for the cockroaches, and the spiders. Those pests are with you all year.

You can't get rid of roaches with a spray. You need baits for those guys or they'll keep coming back.

Spiders are tricky. Some are good guys; they help keep the other insects from bugging you so much. But the Brown Recluse is so abundant in homes these days that you can't know if you're safe or not. Learn to identify the recluse, and you'll feel more secure. Just squirt him with a spray, and leave the friendly spiders alone.

Fall is when you get that new attack from the mice and rats. When cold weather comes, they move from their burrows in the yard to the nice warm walls of your home.

Dealing with rodents is a matter of personal choice. You have your choice of many techniques from glue boards, to traps, to baits. Which technique you use depends on how much mess you want to deal with, and how much smell you can endure.

Insects and rodents are creatures of habit. They don't change their ways, and they invade your space at their own times of year.

Learn to identify the type of pest that's invading your home. Learn what times of year each pest invades, and watch for the seasonal invaders. Learn how to best treat for the pest that's troubling you.

When you do that do-it-yourself pest control is a cinch.




Joseph Jackson is an experienced pest control technician and author of BUG RIDDANCE a how to guide for performing do-it-yourself pest control for controlling a variety of insects, mice, and rats.

For more books about different pests, and how to control them, visit http://www.bugsmiceratsnomore.com





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