Pests


pest control

Pest control is more than just keeping a few unwanted visitors out of your house, and if you handle it well, it will improve your quality of life, and save you money all at the same time!

In order to simplify pest control, we want to break it into 2 sections:

  • Pest prevention.
  • Pest management.

Pest Prevention

Pest prevention is the first step in any good pest control program. If you do not do what you need to do in preventing pests, your pest control efforts will result in a never ending war of attrition with the insects and rodents attempting to set up camp on your property and inside your home.

Home Pest Control: Pest Prevention

Pest Management

The best way to manage, or control pests is through pest prevention, but we know that no matter how well we plan and work on preventing pests, some of them will get through. A good pest prevention program will decrease the numbers of pests trying to get into your home, so the expense of pest management will be lowered, but other pest control techniques will sometimes be needed. It is best to start with the least toxic means first, and work with the more toxic means only when needed.

Here are a few of the wide variety of pest management, and pest prevention topics covered:

Home Pest Control Theories and Practices

Most people approach pest control as though at some point, if we kill enough of them, they will eventually go back where they came from. There are a few problems with this theory: Bugs and weeds do not think, they only react…

Home Mosquito Control And Prevention

Prevention is always the best means of control, and with mosquitoes, prevention offers the only control that is remotely successful for home mosquito control. Pesticides offer only limited control for a limited time, mosquito misters are falling under increasing scrutiny…

Displaced Wildlife Management in Suburbs

If you live in an area which was formerly wild, and there is a good deal of construction, I am sure you have noticed a few usually unsocial animals popping up in unusual places. It is normal for a few coyotes and other critters to pop up during and after construction.

Mole Control Mole Prevention

You may manage your subscription options from your profile.Mole Control and Mole Prevention Moles create slightly raised areas along the top of the ground as they tunnel in search of food and shelter. How moles tunnel They tunnel by pushing soil up and to the side, as opposed to gophers which actually mine the dirt and remove it.

Preventing Insects And Rodents: Eliminating Cover

Brush weeds and debris as cover Weeds, brush, and debris feed and hide insects and rodents. These insects and rodents are continually probing for better circumstances, and human housing looks like ideal lodging to them. Brush, weeds, and debris serve as hiding spots or cover for insects and rodents.

Gopher Prevention Gopher Trapping Gopher Treatments

Prevention Prevention is always the best form of pest control, but where gophers are the pest in question, this can be difficult. Plant choices Because gophers prefer vegetation, and roots in particular, and because there does not seem to be any one type of root they prefer overwhelmingly, there is not much in the way of plant choice…

Pest Control Predicting Pest Problems

Before you let insects get the drop on your lawn, there is a method you can use to determine the likelihood of an infestation or invasion. Consider it a sort of low tech radar warning of incoming enemy troops. You can do this simple test with items you already have around your home.

Preventive Maintenance Program Pest Control

To control pests, like everything else, the best form of control is prevention. Preventive pest control provides a solid base for your entire pest control system, and, if carried out properly, will provide almost all the pest control you will need.

Home Pest Control: Pest Management

Prevention is where pest control should start, management is what we do for the ones that get by our prevention measures. The first step in pest management is to be sure that the pest prevention measures we have taken are adequate and appropriate. If there are problems with this, they should be solved before any chemicals are used.

Learn more about traditional and non traditional forms of pest management on our:

Pest Control Pages

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