What is Pest Control?

Pest control refers to the regulation or management of another species defined as a pest, usually because it is believed to be detrimental to a person's health, the ecology or the economy. Pest control is at least as old as agriculture. In order to maximize food production, it can be economically advantageous to protect crops from competing species of plants, as well as from herbivores competing with humans. Click here for our pest control services and options. Many pests have only become a problem because of the direct actions of humans. Modifying these actions can often substantially reduce the pest problem. In the USA, raccoons caused a nuisance by tearing open refuse sacks. Many householders introduced bins with locking lids, which deterred the raccoons from visiting. House flies tend to accumulate wherever there is human activity and is virtually a global phenomenon, especially where food or food waste is exposed. Similarly, seagulls have become a pest at many seaside resorts. ...  more

Pest control is the process of minimizing or removing a wide range of undesirable insects and other pests from spaces occupied by people. The actual process of pest control can take place in the home, in a place of business, or in a public building. Controlling pests normally involves using some type of insecticide to prevent them from entering the space, and to kill any pests that have already established a presence within the space. Many homeowners choose to manage pest control on their own. This process often includes a combination of strategies designed to make the space less desirable to roaches, bed bugs and other types of pests. Along with keeping the home clean and thus minimizing the potential for providing food for pests such as rats or mice, homeowners will often make use of over the counter products to kill any invaders into the living space. Along with commercial products, some people prefer to use time-honored methods of preparing anti-pest compounds using natural ...  more

Well it is the control of Insects and Rodents. Insects: An Infestation could be in the Home or any Commercial Food Production Industry. Control is carried out with Insecticides, this could be a Wet Spray or Dry Spray or by Smoke Insecticides or by a fumigation Mist. We will concentrate on the Home. You can have a variety of insects around your home. Lets start in the loft area of you House, a very nice cosy area for Insects and Rodents and most of the time you would not know they were there. In your chimney stack there could be Honeybees which have been there years, if you use the fireplace which leads to that chimney there could'nt be because of the heat and smoke. Lurking up there in the loft, Flies/Wasps/Larder Beetles/Buscuit Beetles/Bird Fleas/Blue Bottles Flies and I have seen especialy last year 2005 to many Bumble bee nests in lofts, why?. I do not know but they are very big and use the loft insulation for there nests. If you collect Mucic Albums and have them stored say in a ...  more