Spiders and how to control their occupation of your home.
Spiders and how to control them.
Spiders are arthropods, but not insects. They have eight legs and no wings. They are generally docile animals that feed primarily on insects and other small animals. They are commonly found in dimly lit, cool places that are seldom disturbed by people.
My personal experience with spiders was an unpleasant one. I was summering in New Hampshire at our summer home, which is not occupied during the winter due to the bitter cold. -40 degrees should be tough on spiders but not on the one that found me that year. In early May, I was bitten over the course of three days a total of 6 times, at night!
All of the bites were in one general location on the back around the shoulder. For the next few days, the area remained swollen and hot. I was searching everywhere for my attacker and finally located it behind the headboard of my bed. It appeared to be a common wolf spider, not a feared black widow or brown recluse.
Once the problem was eliminated, I felt relieved but dealt with a week and a half of pain and lethargy. Having the home pest control maintained on a regular basis, I was surprised to discover spiders have to have direct contact with chemical solutions in order for them to be effectively controlled.
Most spider bites occur when people are cleaning or working in basements, garages and barns. When disturbed or intimidated, spiders bite their victims with hollow, fang-type protrusions that can hold the victim and inject fluids from modified salivary glands. The wounds produced by spider bites may become infested with microorganisms associated with food particles and other decaying organic matter commonly found on the fangs.
In the US, the black widow, brown widow and brown recluse have the most dangerous bite. Venom from the black widow may cause hypertension, muscle spasms, weakness and paralysis. Venom from a brown recluse spider causes local ulcerations.
Controlling spiders
Control spiders by removing the insects they feed on, their webs and spraying pesticides directly on them or dusts that can be applied in their hiding places.
Bug Season is here and now is the time to start control treatment!
Pest Tube Pest Control
Now is the time to start servicing Pest Tubes to gain control over the warming bug season to control ants, roaches, silverfish and termites.
Maintaining annual service creates a barrier around your home to outside penetration. Just remember, many of the items we as homeowners bring into our home can have bugs or bug eggs inside. Open large boxes and bags outside and throw the boxes in an outside trash container.
If you have stored items in the garage or storage facility, extract what you want and bring it in without the box. This will help keep accidental tourist (bugs) from coming in your home undetected. Roaches and silverfish love to vacation inside!
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The German Cockroach
Cockroaches
The second most leading cause of asthma in children
source: Partners Healthcare; Asthma Center
For many people the mere mention of the word “roach” makes one’s hair stand on edge. We associate these small insects with indoor dirt and decay, and we know how hard it can be to rid one’s home of an infestation of roaches once they settle in. But roaches are a fact of modern life. For some of us, exposure to roaches is an important cause of our asthma. For all of us, an important lesson can be learned from understanding the emerging information about the relationship between cockroach exposure and asthma. Cockroaches are a fact of modern life – and for some, an important cause of asthma.
Some people are born with the tendency to make allergic responses. Others seem to acquire the tendency along the way as they grow older. Most people with asthma have the tendency to make allergic responses in their bronchial tubes to things that we breath in.
It turns out that excrement and debris from decomposing cockroach bodies are of just the right size to be lifted into the air, breathed onto the bronchial tubes, and recognized by the immune system — in certain people — as a signal to make an allergic reaction. As you know, the allergic reaction in the bronchial tubes is asthma.
Recently, a major, federally-funded research project looked for allergy producing substances in the homes of several hundred children with asthma living in several major cities across the United States. Specifically, they measured the amount of cat, dust mite, and cockroach allergen in the bedrooms of these children aged 4 to 9 years. The results were quite striking.
OnDuty Pest Control Services provide Pest Tube services
Houston Pest Tube services
Your home may be equipped with in-wall pest control tubing system, which is a high-tech way to help prevent insects and other pests from entering your home. A polyurethane pest tube is installed at the time of construction and placed in the perimeter walls and other “wet” locations such as around kitchesn, bath and laundry rooms.
Our pest control professionals then can inject, at high pressure, the tubes from the outside of your home. The pest tubes directly apply the pest control chemicals safely inside your walls to deter and kill common insects, including cockroaches, ants, silverfish and other pests.
Contrary to popular belief, the tubes do not belong to a pest control company, they belong to you, the homeowner. Additionally, our technicians can service any kind of Pest Control Tubes.
An additional benefit to having pest control tubes, is the fact you do not need to be home during our scheduled service.
Pest Tubes are a revolutionary change to the Pest Control industry, keeping chemicals in the walls and away from pets and small children.
We also offer Sentricon Colony Elimination systems
Termites can eat most untreated wood. Termite damage is usually not covered by homeowners insurance.
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