Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Information 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 efforts to prevent the situation from getting any worse, there is need to deal with these pests. Pest accumulation may lead to an outbreak of diseases that may affect the human beings and thus affect their levels of production which would hurt the economy in a bad way. It is always very expensive to cure a condition brought about by these pests and therefore their prevention must be given a top most priority.

Best and effective methods to use would be initial a process to eradicate them before they increase. This could be done by eliminating the factors that lead to their increase.. There are different methods used in conducting pest control to ensure that their spread is cut short.

Using biological means of controlling pests would be an effective method to use. This could take the form of introducing some predators to eradicate pests. It also has another advantage in that the predators scare away the pests from the space they had occupied before. An example could be using a cat to scare away mice 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.

Another way would be to have poisoned food used as bait to kill pests that would eat it. Using pesticides could also be another way of eliminating pests especially in the agricultural zones. They are used to stop the pests from damaging the agricultural produce. A majority of the exterminators prefers the use of pesticides to treat pest infestations.

Traps could also be used in reducing the number of pests in an area; it is mostly used on rodents like mice and rats found in homes. The traps consist of a snap trap with bait that is used to lure them to the trap. Cheese is mainly used as the bait and no sooner the rodents eat the cheese than the snap traps them on these traps.

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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