Pests are a huge problem for every homeowner. They can invade your landscaping and ruin your gardens, or invade your home and make it difficult or even dangerous to live in. Most commercially available pest control options are full of terrible chemicals that are bad for the environment and your health. Luckily, there are a few eco-friendly alternatives.
Catch and Release
Catch and release is the most humane and eco-friendly way of handling pests in both your home and garden. Little is needed for this method except for a pest, a method of collecting it, and some bait.
For large pests, like squirrels and rats, use a spring-loaded cage to catch them in the act.
Medium pests, like mice, can be caught with traps that look like small houses.
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They're very successful predators, especially during nesting season when they have hungry mouths to feed, mouths that crave bugs. Attracting birds to your yard is probably the most natural way you can deal with problem bugs. Birds help control the population of many different insects including moths, beetles, ants, aphids, and earwigs. Birds need food, water, and a place to nest. So if you have all those things in your yard already, you probably see a lot of birds. If you don't have those things available, you might want to add them to your landscaping. You can do this …show more content…
As long as it is placed high away from access to pets and kids, it is a lifesaver for pest control. Place boric acid on the tops of your kitchen cabinets and appliances. When properly applied, the boric acid dust is barely visible. If it is overapplied, insects will detect it and avoid the deposit. Roaches and ants will carry it back to their nests and kill the entire squad. Note: Make sure that you are using boric acid and not borax and take great care in its use due to the toxicity to pets and children.
Catnip for Roaches
Most roach treatment is not a preventative and does not repel roaches. Instead, they're designed to kill them on sight. It's safe to say that most people would prefer to have no roaches at all as opposed to having to kill the roaches already in their house. Luckily, researchers have found that catnip repels roaches. A chemical in the catnip plant called nepetalactone is a natural roach repellent. As a bonus, if you have cats they will be very happy.
Heat Treating Bed Bugs
The natural enemy of the bed bug is heat. Luckily heat treating bed bugs is also natural. Unlike the use of insecticides, heat treatment involves no chemicals. Instead, the temperature of the house is raised to kill off all of the pesky critters in the
Spinosad insecticide has been produced in the laboratories after many experiments to determine the effectiveness of the insecticide. It was finally accepted for use in the U.S in 1997. The main trade names and brands in the market containing spinosad insecticide include; Comfortis that kill adult fleas and controls heartworm disease, Natroba that controls human head lice and Monterey Garden Insect Spray that kills flowering crop pests (Gary, 2011).
Malathion is mainly used to control a wide variety of insects from gardens and homes. Not only is Malathion used for a pesticide, it can be found in many special shampoos to treat lice. Since Malathion will be the best for the town of Pawnee, some more in-depth explanation will be explained in the four step process of a conducting a human health risk assessment.
There are four main apparatuses used for trapping. Leghold traps are designed to catch the animal by the toes, foot, or leg, with a tightly gripping metal trap. The animal that is captured by this method suffers a great deal of injuries, exposure, hunger, and thirst. Conibear traps are a little bit more humane in the sense that they are designed to be a “quick kill” mechanism which crushes the animal to kill it. This type of trap is mainly used on water animals, but they have been found with pets caught in them and some still alive. Cage traps are a pretty common use in urban areas. The animal is drawn to the cage with some sort of bate and is unharmed (for the time being), most of the animals are killed and not released. Wildlife Services uses this method because of potential liability issues (NRDC, 2011).
...DT has been in use in malaria control programs since the 1940's and has proved generally effective. The most common use of DDT in preventing the spread of malaria is to spray the backs of chairs and walls of a dwelling with the substance to keep out adult mosquitos who enter the dwelling to feed on those who live there. Though DDT treatments are still an effective way to stop the spread of malaria, some mosquitos have become resistant to the compound and therefore more methods of prevention must be utilized.
Have you ever wondered how some athletes have gotten so good at a certain sport? Have you ever thought about what they did in order for them to get this good? For some the answer is simple; workout and train. But for others the answer is different; the use of performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. There are some people that argue that steroids should be legalized and allowed in professional sports. Other people argue that steroids should not be allowed. Today I am going to state my opinion and justify my reason. Steroids should not be allowed in professional sports because it can be very dangerous to the athlete’s health, it is a way to gain and un-fair advantage and it can be dangerous in both social and physical aspects.
When people think of invasive species they normally do not think of the human species, but why not? There is a large debate about whether or not human are an invasive species. Before people debate about whether or not the human race is an invasive species they should know the definition of one. The legal definition of an invasive species in the United States is “an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health” (Zielinski). The International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, defines an invasive species as “animals, plants or other organisms introduced by man into places out of their natural range of distribution, where they become established and disperse, generating a negative impact on the local ecosystem and species” (Zielinski). If we recognize that the human race is an invasive species then we can take steps to lessen the places we are at, the damage we do to the environment, and the damage we do to other species.
Introduction This report provides a market target analysis of Hanndia Pest Control Services Pty Ltd. Hanndia Pest Control Services, specialise in working with real estate agencies to manage white ant infestation of rental properties, by applying an environmentally friendly fumigation barrier. The main office is located in the Brisbane City council suburb of Calamvale, South Eastern Queensland, with a total of 20 employees. This includes the manager, field officers, and administrative support. The purpose of this report is to identify the market target for Hanndia Pest Control Services.
rodent infestation of storage facilities or the recycling of rotten hams and meat scraps. If
Initially, I used ant killer sprays to kill ants. These sprays easily clear up thousands of crawling ants at once. Nevertheless, the number of ants increased, ants invaded the bathroom next to the kitchen. I aimed thenozzle at endless lines of ants. My battle cry for the day was, "1, 2, 3, Fire!" Combat Ant & Roach Instant Killer keeps on killing even after the surface is dry. At first, I believed that eliminating foraging workers through spraying them might result in exterminating the colony. However, as I found out, spraying only kills a small fraction of the colony's population -even the ones that are killed are quickly replaced.
As time has progressed, there has always been an overarching need for high amounts of crop production throughout the world. With the rapid rate of population growth, the need for crops and other sources of nutrients is only increasing. In order to meet these high demands and increase yields, farmers and other agriculturalists have started implementing the use of pesticides. These chemical mixtures are being used in order to prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate any pests from destroying growing crops. However, using pesticides on crops can create massive amounts of pollution, negatively affect an individual’s health, and can spark biodiversity loss within an ecosystem. According to Michael C.R. Alavanja, “Over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used within the United States (US) each year and approximately 5.6 billion pounds are used worldwide”. With all this in mind, it is clear that pesticides should not be made available to farmers and agriculturalists, and should
Instead of using pesticides in farming a better alternative would be biological control. This is when a natural predator is released into the crop growing area as a result the number of pests can be reduced.
For example, when using rat poison, it may be effective in killing the vermin, but it can also cause unwanted harm to children and pets, and if a rat dies in the walls, the resident will be unable to retrieve the body and soon the stench of rot will fill the household, as shown in Top Ten Fascinating Facts About Rats. One method of killing rats involves terriers, which are dogs that have been specially bred for the purpose of killing vermin. It was recommended by Rachel Bauer, who asserted that “as a possible means of control, based on their situation, some people consider getting a cat or dog that has been bred or trained to be a “mouser,”” in Rats! Rodent populations proliferate in some parts of Texas. Other methods, such as gassing, traps, and baiting are also used. The rat infestations are very difficult to prevent, due to the fact that rats’ teeth are incredibly strong, according to Top Ten Fascinating Facts About Rats, so all methods that have been proven to be effective are recommended for the use of clearing the house of
Use mosquito nets impregnated with insecticides in places where screens for doors and windows are absent.
Our planet is suffering from severe pollution, which ranges from contaminated air, water and soil as well. Humans are doing nothing to reduce the amount of pollution that is harming our earth. To understand how pollution works first you must understand that there are different types of pollution. The most common types of pollution and the ones that I will be focusing on which are the ones doing the most harm to our planet are air pollution, water pollution, soil contamination and littering. In order to help out and reduce pollution in our planet people need to be more aware of what these problems are and about the severe damages that they are causing our planet. Before industrialization really jumped into place and had an effect on large cities, nature had its own way of cleaning up its own air and itself. Wind scattered gases, rain washed many substances and the rest dissolved into the ground; while plants absorbed carbon dioxide and made it into oxygen. With big cities growing more every time and with more towns that were becoming more industrialized a lot of more waste began to be released into the environment and the atmosphere and soon this was more than enough for nature to handle. In order to stop and reduce pollution people need to understand the damage that it is causing our environment and our planet as well. People need to be more aware of how they can help out and do their part in reducing these problems that are causing our planet to die slowly with people not even noticing it.
Pesticide is a chemical used to prevent, wipe out and control the pest problem in agriculture. The use of pesticides have become a common practice around the world, and used almost everywhere, such as agricultural fields, homes, park and school, and so on. Most pesticides are insecticides, herbicides and fungicides that have distinct purposes. Insecticides are used to control insects; herbicides are used to destroy plants; fungicides are used to prevent molds and mildews. Most commonly pesticides contain highly toxic chemical such as Acid copper chromate (ACC), Acephate and Chlorpyrifos, and so on. One of example of insecticides, Chlorpyrifos, sprays widely on a variety of food and golf courses in order to control pests in a cornfield. However, “Chlorpyrifos can cause cholinesterase inhibition in humans; that is, it can over stimulate the nervous system causing nausea, dizziness, confusion, and at very high exposures (e.g., accidents or major spills), respiratory paralysis and death.” (EPA GOV) In the market has thousands of products are similar as Chlorpyrifos.