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16 October 2013

What You Need To Know About Lowell Pest Control

By Chasity Sheppard


Lowell pest control is a process that is used in ensuring that different species of pests are controlled. These pests affect the economy, ecology, human health and agriculture negatively. They may be able to affect the produce from the agricultural activities and could also lead to outbreaks of diseases on livestock and also human beings. Although a majority of the pests are insects, there are some that are bigger in size for example raccoons and seagulls.

In order for the situation not to get out of hand, it is necessary to deal with pests. Accumulation of pests may cause diseases to human beings therefore affecting their production level which in turn affects the economy badly. It would be very expensive to treat the effects caused by these pests and therefore preventing them ought to be a top priority.

An effective approach to control the insects would be to start from scratch that is by eliminating the factors that encourage their population increase. This would be helpful in stemming down the rise of the insect population. There are various ways and methods of controlling insects that may be used to eradicate pests.

Biological methods could be used as it is very effective. This would involve the introduction of predators to eliminate pests. It is also helpful in ensuring that the pests are scared away from the area they usually occupy. A good example could be the use of cats to eliminate and also chase mice away from the house.

Eco -friendly insect eradicating measures should be utilized so that the environment would not be harmed by the dangerous pesticides. There are some heat and freezing treatments that may be used in eradicating the insects. One may also use some mechanical form of controlling pests. This would involve the use of physical barriers like fences that would prevent animals from getting access to gardens.

Poisoned foods could be used to eradicate the pests by acting as bait to lure them to eat it and as soon as they touch the food they die. Pesticide use has been a method that has been used for the longest time possible especially in areas where agriculture is most common. Exterminators would prefer pesticides to help in treating infestations caused by the pests.

Using traps to eradicate pests could be another useful method of elimination pests such as rats and mice found in residential homes. The traps are made up of a snap trap and bait which is mostly cheese used to lure the rodents to the trap. Once the rodents eat the bait, they activate the snap trap that catches them. Another form of trap used includes a cardboard piece that has glue on one side which traps the rodents.

In areas that are worst hit by the pests, there is another more effective and dangerous method of controlling them known as space fumigation. When it is being used, the human population is usually moved to other areas due to the toxic chemicals and fumes produced by this method. If all the above listed Lowell pest control methods are well carried out, then it would be possible to control these harmful pests.




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