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Tips and hints for Home pest control
Agriculture is very old and perhaps gardening and pest control are equally old. This industry is expanding at a phenomenal rate. The pest control business has grown more than 50 percent in the last 5 years or so, and nationwide it has become a $7 billion industry.
Homes are increasingly being built in places that are off the beaten path . Many people have a strong desire to reside in the woods or desert. For an insect or an animal termed a ‘pest’ it is you who is the intruder into their habitat and not vice versa. When your home becomes infested with bugs, thats when they become pests.
One has to ask oneself what Gardening and Pest control actually means?
Getting rid of unwanted pests is the ultimate goal. There is a difference between pest control and structural pest control in that the one is control of creatures affecting plants, soil or lawn etc and the other is control of creatures such as termites which invade buildings or outhouses. To speak of gardens, plants and pesky weeds will often spill over into one’s home as well.
In order to protect our growing areas as well as our health, proper gardening and pest control is a necessity. Once pests are discovered in the yard, the damage has gotten out of control. There are actually some things you can do to get rid of the problem.
What can we do to contain the unwanted pests in our garden?
Understandably, most homeowners take care of handling gardening and pest control on their own. To some extent, it is fair enough. Gardening pest control is like visiting the doctor: to prescribe effective treatment your physician must correctly diagnose the problem and determine the extent of the injury as well as the potential for further injury. Through surveys, it has been discovered that homeowners often don’t read the instructions carefully or they alter them in ways they think will better solve their problem.
As a result, insecticide will be applied in too high a concentration, which may be dangerous for you or your houseguests. Naturally, we are talking about chemicals, since chemical pest control remains the primary method used in modern pest control. Persistent use of chemicals has had a detrimental effect on the environment and this has led, at the close of the past century, to a renewed interest in more traditional methods of pest control.
Periodic visits from a home pest control company is a must if you do not want to dirty your hands and yet still want to take control over domestic pest infestations. If you have your house pest controlled on a monthly basis this means that problems will be detected as early as possible. Monthly pest control has one disadvantage and that is the home owners are keen that PCOs apply a chemical treatment every month irrespective of the fact whether there is a pest problem or not.
It is astonishing to see the factual pattern of the pesticides used in the home and the garden;
1. A huge amount of pesticide is applies annually to lawns, typically something in the region of 67 million pounds.
2. Agricultural acreage consumes far less pesticide than suburban lawns do.
Think before you spray a pesticide. You may kill the insects that are helping you keep pests in check. In the future, this will probably mean that you must bug bomb your home. Also, insects benefit your garden by pollinating your plants, helping them grow and propagate. The use of carbaryl, diazinon, and malathion insect killers is not recommended. Avoid these as you are more than likely to end up doing more harm than good with them. When the insects who prey on the pests are decimated, you will notice the quick revival of the pests and, lo, these plant eaters multiply faster soon after you had used the spray.
Most consumers also don’t realize how potentially harmful they can be:
1. Pesticides can be tracked inside as an EPA study found 23 different kinds in the dust and air collected from inside someones home.Do you, the consumer, know just how dangerous they are to you?
2. Garden chemicals harm the environment, the US Geological Survey routinely finds every type of garden chemical, particularly weed killers, in the streams and rivers around urban centers.
It’s an eye-opening shock isn’t it, can we really, really not be without these methods of pest control?
Gardening and Natural Home Pest Control
We believe the logical approach to gardening and pest control is to create a balance of organisms in your yard or garden. Using chemical pesticides is more costly and potentially harmful, while natural pest control offers safety for your garden and the local floral and fauna.
Let’s look at some hints and tips to help your gardening and pest control:
1. Physical controls - traps, barriers, fabric row covers or repellents - are often successful at controlling pests.
2. There are a variety of plants that provide both pollen and nectar constantly. Planting these will attract ‘good’ bugs to your garden.
3. You can keep pests from damaging your plants by preventing them getting to the plants in the first place. And in cases where you only see a few pests, physically removing them can often keep the problem under control.
In summary, a lot of folks are in the same boat. Since home pest control is a global problem, we hope this article has been helpful.
