Saturday, July 20, 2013

Pest Control The Battle Of Man And Pestilence

By Chelsea Evans


For as long as humans walked the earth, certain animals have become an annoyance to humankind and we call them pests. They are usually insects or rodents which are a nuisance and can be damaging to humans or human concerns like livestock, agriculture, and the ecosystem. Fort Worth pest control offers to eradicate pests found in your home or office buildings.

Plant and animal parasites, vermin, pathogens, weed and others are generally called pests, even though it is possible for a living thing to be a pest in one place, but useful in another. Some animals that are introduced in a new, unfamiliar place and breeds aggressively thus threatening the survival of native ones. Examples of common pests are lice, fleas, termites, weeds, aphids, rats, and locusts.

Ever since the conception of agriculture, humans always try to keep away other animals from destroying crops or foraging the harvest. Humans maximize food production by protecting crops from competing plant species and humans compete against other animals. Although they cause so much damage, these organisms became what they are because of human actions.

An example is the flies because they only tend to gather where there is human activity particularly where food and wastes are exposed. Living things evolve and over time they learn to increase their resistance to physical, biological, chemical controls. Unless the whole population of the species is exterminated or became unable to reproduce, the surviving population will eventually acquire a tolerance.

Various methods have been used to exterminate them and one of the safest and natural method is by biological method. You can control the pestilence by controlling its natural predator in the ecosystem and one example is on how domesticated felines are used to control rodents and other small animals. This method causes minimal harm to the ecosystem while eliminating the pestilence.

Another natural method is by using organic pest controls like in gardening which is used against aphids, caterpillars, beetles and others. You can make an organic bug spray using onions, garlic, oil, or pepper. It is very inexpensive and safe for your family, for your garden plants, and, most of all, the environment.

Chemical control uses pesticides which could be sprayed across a wide expanse of cropland or by hand held units and can be sprayed on a place manually. It is effective and a commonly used method, but some pesticides can cause harm to humans as well. Repellents are applied to the skin, clothing, or other surfaces to discourage insects like mosquitoes from landing or climbing on that surface.

A method used in horticulture and vegetable farming is sterilization which sterilizes the soil by using steam. Electronic devices have been created to eliminate pests. One of them is an ultrasonic device that can emit high frequency sound waves that scares animals.

In urban spaces and suburban homes, the common method used is space treatment where insecticide is misted over the structure to draw out the pests and exterminate them. Other methods are space fumigation, hunting and trapping. Make your home free from pestilence by hiring a Fort Worth pest control.




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