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Pest Control Inside Your Home
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Hi I’m Steve Durham with embark on termite and pest today we’re going to talk about different pests you have
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around your home we’re going to start in the kitchen the kitchen is where there’s a lot of food that you bring in that you
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clean up and small tiny pieces can fall off something that’s very small too you may feed a roach or an ant for a week or
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more so this is where there’s a lot of food a lot of water and is very very attractant to ants and roaches we also
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have stored products here and therefore stored product pests your grain mods your flour beetles and grain beetles
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will certainly be in the pantry around your grain type items and then there’s silverfish in the kitchen let’s start
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off talking about ants and roaches and what we can do around the sink to help prevent that now for insects around the
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sink around the stove the main problem is there’s a lot of food so you’re going to get a lot of bugs coming around to
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eat that food a residual spray with a good chemical is going to do a lot to help decrease that population as they
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come into the area spraying under the sink up under the bottom of the sink and even around
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outside around doors and windows will help protect some of those tiny little cracks and crevices where ants and
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roaches will come in to feed we also use a lot of baits these baits are formulated to mimic or in some cases be
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better than food that you may have left around these little syringes here is an easy application device it’s actually
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just a pistol grip are great for treating around cracks and crevices doors and windows where ants and roaches
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may come in this is a great product our industry has made it even better by putting it into an aerosol can so really
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we’re getting some of the same bait formulations in this aerosol can it’s just a lot easier to apply I’m actually
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applying small bits of it right now and you can see how easy that is these baits last a long
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time and are very attractive dance and roaches depending on the formulation it was designed for
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there’s also dry baits drive formulations of some of the same ingredients are excellent this is
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actually a dry powder and it’s great for dusting into holes that you can’t see into or can’t get into it’s also great
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for getting behind switches and electrical plates because this dust will go in there and it will give ants and
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roaches someday for a long long time now we’re going to talk about some of the other insects we may see some of the
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stored product pests the flour beetles the grain beetles that type of thing let’s move over to the pantry and take a
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look in there okay let’s talk a little bit about stored product pests what are stored
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product pests well they are pests that get into the products that are typically stored grains so your grain products are
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going to be your cereals and your crackers even spaghetti we’ll take a look here we will often find flour
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beetles Indian grain mugs Indian meal mods I’m sorry and different grain beetles in the pantry you bring them in
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from the grocery store some of the grocery stores even some of the producers sometimes don’t control their
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products well enough to keep all of the products out so what do we do for those a lot of times we will use again a spray
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can to spray appropriate chemicals in and around the pantry normally all of these products all of your food will be
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removed and we’ll get in there to try to control any of the larvae or eggs that happen to be not inside the product that
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they’re currently eating on the most important thing is to go through these products especially your grain products
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here is rice will find rice weevils another stored product pests in the rice so you want to pull them out you want to
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do a good inspection of all of the products inside the bags to see if there’s any weevils or any types of
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beetle or larvae feeding on that product if there are you discard this get it out of the house get it sealed into a trash
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bag and get it out once you’ve identified the products that are affected and they’re gone yeah we’re
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going to remove these products we’re going to do a good spray treatment inside for long control long lasting
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control we can use pheromone traps these actually will attract the adult forms of the different insects this is simply a
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sticky trap but the key ingredient are these pheromone tablets that give off scent that will attract the insects to
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come into these traps and get stuck on the glue traps again embark on has access to the different types of
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pheromone attractants that are needed for the different pests and by cleaning out the food that they’re eating on by
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doing a good residual spray it’s an easy way for embark on to get in and take care of your problem really painless
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effort on your part let’s talk now about some silver fish and then rats and mice that we also see in the kitchen areas ok
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silverfish get into kitchens they get into your bathrooms they eat paper they like to eat paper and they’re also
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normally found around moisture sources silverfish normally relatively straightforward to control again proper
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spray insecticides will help along with silverfish baits these are relatively non-toxic to us to
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you and your children and your pets so if a dog we’re having to get into this I would not be concerned about it we just
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place these in the drawers close the drawers let the silverfish eat their way to silverfish heaven one of the final
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things we’re going to talk about is rodents certainly in and around the kitchen again it’s where the food is
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during the winter months especially it gets cold outside the rats the mice want to come in to get warm and guess what
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bonus they found a food source so we certainly use the old standby wooden mousetraps and wooden rat traps
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but they have built a better rat trap or a better mousetrap these are easier for us they do cost a
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little more weed and bark I’m like to use these we will also use the old wooden traps
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we have even special baits that we put in traps to attract the rats and the mice better then the old standby cheese
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or peanut butter food particles get under the sink or around the sink behind the stove behind the refrigerator
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these traps both mouse and rat traps are excellent at a one-time kill and then you know where the carcass is they’re
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easy to remove and we that embark on do provide the carcass removal service as well so that kind of sums it up all the
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different products or the different pests that we have in and around the kitchen we’re going to move outside and
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look at some of the problems and some of the ways to stop pests from entering from the outside of the home let’s go

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