At least 500 million years is the scientific guess of the scientists as to the length of habitation of the insects on the earth. The insects now embody three quarters of the animal population of the earth where some 1.7 million species are identified. In addition, the district chairman of the pest control administrators of California, these small bugs are not specific to the homes they destroy nor the homeowners they pester. For the longest time, home maintenance is immediately declared as sloppy once you find insects inside it, he further explains. The pest control resource person denies this claim.
Excellent home maintenance is definitely of value in insect prevention, but the real reason for insect and pest infestation is easy accessibility of the homes. To illustrate, he says termites cannot choose the house to infest based on its neatness or untidiness. They will not notice the place at all once they find the wood to munch on.
Also, by checking out the cracks in the slab or ditch pipe intervals as tiny as 1/64 of an inch, they will invade any house which is not bug protected. A certain number of insect pests like cockroaches are carried into the home via stuff like a bag of vegetables, a box of soda or even the cuffs of your pants. Crawling insects like ants, crickets, water bugs, scorpions, earwigs, and silverfish can fit into gaps and cracks to enter through foundation, baseboards, doors and windows.
Pets bring in with them the fleas into the homes. Your house is unshielded from the incoming air borne insects when the doors are always open and the windows are uncovered. The clever ways of insects bring them up in the charts when it comes to the most successful of all animals.
He includes the fact that California winter is a weather that pushes them to find a warmer environment like a house. If some of the pests are merely a nuisance, others will indiscriminately damage clothes, fabrics and rugs or contaminate food and water. A number of them will even bring the most avoided diseases into your home along with the dregs they carry.
Because of the damaging potential of these insects to our houses, the expert confidently states that this is now the time to shake off the old belief where in we are embarrassed to admit that pests have infested our properties and deny that fact from our neighbors. According to a personnel of a non profit trade association, a lot of homeowners intends to have a pest control operator regularly check their in an unmarked vehicle before. Or they won't seek professional help at all, and just try to combat the problem by themselves and have it not only continue, but also ultimately grow worse. He says when the insects reach your homes, the first thing they do is increase exponentially. Self generated strategies cannot get you out of this phase.