Archive for October, 2011

PESTS Categories

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Insect pest are most talented in feeding almost all sorts of living organisms. The insects are capable of destroying crop plants, stocked food, fruit plants and residential property. The pests can lead to many health issues to man and animals. They are classified depending on the host they pests breed upon

Household Pests:
The wide environment around us seems to be very attractive to pests such as industrial complexes, lawns, flowers, parks, shrubs and houses. Pests that damage residential property are usually referred to as household pests. Household Pests are main concern to man, his belongings and his immediate surroundings.
Pests such as cockroaches, silver fish, weevils, ants, houseflies, crickets and fruit flies, etc. which pollute edible food and ruin it or spreads diseases are usually comes under this category. The insects like bed bugs,carpet beetle, cloth moths and furniture beetles cause damage to human-belongings this as well fit in the category of household pests. Therefore, all kinds of insect which are unnecessary guests to our houses which is the main reason for damage to human belongings and his wellbeing are called as household pests.

Veterinary pest

The insects which attack domestic animals such as horses, chicken, cattle, etc and other blood sucking insects such as lice, bugs, fleas, stable flies, mosquitoes are some of the examples of domestic animal pests. Biting lice such as Mallophage brings about irritation and loss of fleshy tissue in poultry farms. Horn flies, Tabanid flies suck the blood from farm animals to horses. Both flies can lead to severe stomach disturbances in horses. Grubs of ox warble flies leads to loss of flesh in cattle and can cause harm to the leather by creating holes in the skin.

Tabani

Tabani flies

Structural Pests:
Structural pests are those destructive insects which cause damage to
furniture’s, fencing posts, wooden frames, doors, library books, stored
papers, cardboards and parts of buildings are named as structural pests.
The termites are social insects and colonial, grows on cellulose which means it damages wooden objects in uneven form. Silver fishes feed on ghee and starch material, therefore damaging book bindings, photographs, wall papers and all kinds of adhesive labels. Cloth moths and carpet beetles can also be attack carpets, cloths as structural pests.

Storage Grain Pests:
The storage of food grains has been a long custom among the farmers and merchants. A significant loss both in quality and quantity of food grains happens in storage area due to several factors. Creatures like insects, rodents, bacteria, mites and fungi are directly blamed for causing damage in accumulated products.
The stored food fruits, nuts, grains, seeds, etc. are contaminated due to internal borer insects in the godowns and warehouses are most harmful of all insects. The borers can damage crops, even during the harvesting time in the farm ground itself. The moths, Red rust flour beetle, grain weevils cause a main damage to stored cereals (barley, wheat, rice,  corn, oat, millets, etc.) and pulses (beans, gram, lentils, peas, etc.) correspondingly. Mostly the pests ruin the stored food grains and make them unhealthy for human consumption, sowing. The stored grain pest can be distinguished into two kinds such as :
(i) Primary type: This group of pest’s attacks to whole grains in an uncrushed state.
(ii) Secondary type: this group of pests feed or damages the crushed or broken grains.

Agricultural Crop Pests:
Most of the agricultural crops are infected by number of pests that lead to severe harm. Pest represents many numbers of insects attacking the different crop plants. The main crops such as cotton, sugarcane, jowar, wheat, bajara, etc. are spoiled by pests like stem shoot fly, borer, armyworms, aphids, leafhoppers mites, flea beetles, jowar midge fly, etc. The semiloopers, potato beetles, cabbage worm has chewing kind of mouth parts. They chew up and swallow the outside parts of the plants. Whereas some insects like blister beetle feed on pollens, etc. therefore causing severe harm.

Forestry pest:

Forestry pest go into into the plant and lead to deformations in the structures like stem borers pierces stem causing burrowing inside and enlarging. Leaf cutters and leaf rollers leads to harmful deforestation. Gall insects leads to enlarging, bark feeder damages surface of stem. Example Bark beetle damages the timber in the forest; the termites destroy the timber logs even after parting the forest. The sap suckers such as aphids, plant bugs and Thrips absorb plant juice in nursery plants which slows down the photosynthetic activity.

Thrips

Thrips

Pestering Pests

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

We call a person ‘A pest’ when he/she keeps on nagging us and the same way pests are insects which annoys us by spoiling our belongings. Some people try home remedy to get rid of pests and for some this problem go out of hand; in that case nothing can be done unless you opt for a pest control services. Many of us are unaware of the different type’s pests that exist and here are some commonly known indoor pests – rodent, cockroaches, fly, mosquitoes, lizard and bed bug.

bed-bug

Opting for pest control service alone does not solve the problem; you have to approach the right pest control service. Here are few steps in order to approach the best pest control.

Based on the information provided above about the types of pests, you need to identify the pest that is bothering your house. Once you identify the pest, identify the areas mainly affected due to this pest. Locating the pest affected areas is very important as it locates the pest’s territory and now, do some researches on best available pest control services in your locality. Do some initial enquiry and go for the one that suits your need. Discuss with the pest control representative about the pests affecting your house and gather information. Fix an appointment with the pest control professional   to make a visit to your house and let them inspect the affected areas.

Pest Control Services

Most of the professional pest control services provide you complete pest control treatment and will be quite knowledgeable about pests. They will be more informative about the types of pest affecting your house and will clarify any pest related doubts. You won’t face any more problems regarding the pest, if you have approached the right pest control services and so it depends on calling the right people for pest control.