Pest Prevention VANCOUVER
Industrial Pest Control Methods
There is no place for pests in the food and beverage industry. Apart from being detrimental to the reputation of the company, pest activity can also result in prosecution and even closure of the facility. But due to a combination of multiple factors, many of which are extremely difficult to control, pests can find a…
How To Bug Proof Your Home For The Summer
From the stark and cold wintery days which are pleasurably bug-free, Vancouver is ready to welcome the insect-friendly months. Along with getting the barbeque grills ready, homeowners are also looking to prepare themselves against an army of invaders like ticks, fleas, bees, scorpions, cockroaches, silverfish, hornets, flies, mosquitoes and anything else that creeps out of the…
Keeping your Vancouver properties mosquito free
Spring in Vancouver has been witnessing record setting cold rainy days. Along with forcing the coats and the mittens out of the wardrobe, it is also bringing mosquitos into homes in impossibly huge numbers. And some of them are newer species which were previously unseen. One of the reasons for this sudden surge in…
How to keep your kids safe from mosquitos and other pests
Parents make a conscious and continual effort to safeguard the health of their children. Medications are locked away. Harsh chemicals are kept out of reach. The house is baby-proofed. But what about the pests and bugs which can invade your home potentially exposing your children to dangerous diseases? In recent times, there has been a…
How Heat Treatment for pest control works
Despite being aware of the potential health hazards caused by roaches, mosquitoes and rodents, families are beginning to shy away from using traditional pest control methods due to the more severe health effects of pesticide exposure. Let’s face it. Nobody likes bug infestations. But would you risk exposing your children to chemicals that can affect…
Modern chemical treatments for pest control are safe and work
For many years, pest control meant the nonchalant use of insecticides and rodenticides to control infestations even in residential areas. Use of chemicals like chlorpyrifos and diazinon were rampant. Incidentally, both these chemicals were banned in 2001 by the EPA as Carcinogens. Today, however, due to increased awareness, use of dangerous chemicals in pest…
Removing silverfish from your home
There’s something about Silverfish that makes them an unbearable sight. Yes. They are harmless. But they are also slimy and downright disgusting. They feed on everything starchy, which includes books, dead skin (eww) and live in dark and moist places in your home that you never knew about. If you are pulling your hair out…
How to deal with pest infestations in a restaurant – hire the right professionals
If your restaurant is famous for its delicacies, then human patrons are not the only people who’ll come knocking on your doors. Food attracts pests. Be it good food or stale food or even the accidentally spilled beverage. As a restaurant owner or manager, one of the biggest and constant challenges is to keep pests…
Keeping offices free of pests
If you are a facility manager, then one of the key responsibilities that you are entrusted with, is to maintain the hygiene in the premises. And chances are, that you are making every attempt to make this possible. But every now and then, you have a ‘blink and a miss’ sight of a roach…
Eliminating a Cockroach infestation in your home
They are tiny, repulsive, live in the filthiest corners of the world and the worst part, they come in the masses. ‘La Cucaracha’ or the cockroach has a reputation that far precedes it. Even the sight of a single cockroach is enough for homeowners to panic. Some are just revolted by the icky critters…