Bed Bugs Are Back In Lancashire

Bed Bugs Are Back in Lancashire – One of the most feared and misunderstood pests known to man is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dropped off to sleep at night as young ones with the words of our parents in our ears ‘sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite’?

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Bed bugs probably started to feed on man at about the time we moved into caves, the ‘bat bugs’ Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella primarily feed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bug evolved to dine on human blood when our ancesters started living in bat infested caves.

Until the invention of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common non-paying guests in most low quality dwellings.

The later part of the 20th century saw pest control companies dealing with very few bed bug problems indeed, their presence being largely confined to inexpenisve vacation camps and student accomodation etc.

Many people mistake dust mites, which are not visible to the naked eye, with bed bugs which very definitely are.

Adult bedbugs are reddish-brown, about a quarter of an inch in size and decidely swollen after a feed of our blood.

They have an incomplete metamorphosis which means that the nymphs are just smaller copies of the adult, they don’t have a pupal stage like fleas or flies.

Bed bugs typically feed on human blood every 7 – 10 days, coming out in the hours before dawn and locating their prey by sensing the exhaled CO2 from our breath and when nearing in on their target, body heat.

In the absence of a convenient human to feed on they can stay dormant for periods of up to 18 months.

Signs of a bed bug infestation are spots of blood on bedding and on the underside of mattresses and many people can react badly to their bites.

The early 21st century has seen bed bug numbers increase across the world, the easy availability of international travel and economic migration have both been blamed for the come back.

What is certain is that thet are now making a real return not only in low quality housing but high class hotels, schools and often hospitals.

One London borough reports a doubling of bed bug call-outs each year from 1995 – 2001.

Just one night away in an infested hotel is all it takes, they catch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Pest control firms are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on tubes, trains and buses so a single journey to work on an infested bus or train can be sufficient to spread the infestation to your own home.

They are an expensive pest to eradictate as contrary to popular mythology they do not just live in beds. They hide any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping human, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed-side telephones etc and treatment is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been found living beneath the toe-nails of infirm persons and in the folds of flesh on heavily over-weight people.

They are not a pest that can be tackled by an amateur and a professional will almost certainly be |required.

Ken Chadwick B.A. (Hons) is a Pest Controller and author on pest control issues. For further information please visit http://www.waspgo.co.uk

That concludes this article entitled – Bed Bugs Are Back In Lancashire

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The Joint Is Jumpin’ – The Story Of The Flea (Ken Chadwick)

The Joint Is Jumpin’ – The Story Of The Flea -Contrary to popular opinion cat & dog fleas do not live on their chosen animal, they merely jump onto their host at feeding time, and dinner for a flea of course is blood.

In nature the fleas live and breed in the nest of animal they feed on, in reality of course in a modern house the ‘nest’ becomes the carpets, rugs and soft furnishings.

Flea (Ctenocephalides felis & canis) infestations are becoming much more prevalent in recent years, centrally heated homes provide an ideal environment for the life cycle of the insect, which can be completed in as little as 16 days.

The increased presence of urban foxes in many towns and cities may be responsible for the increased number of flea infestations as foxes always carry a generous population to share with the neighbourhood cats and dogs.

The well fed flea lays its eggs in the nesting material, carpets in a modern dwelling, which hatch out into larvae which crawl away from light and hence are to be found deep in the pile. In the egg and larval stage they are also pretty resistant to insecticide which is why it is rarely possible to cure a flea infestation with one treatment.

The larvae eat the blood rich droppings of the adult flea before pupating to emerge as a young, hungry flea

Human beings do not taste especially nice to fleas and our blood is not of sufficient quality for them to breed, but in the absence of a cat or a dog we will do!

In the absence of a host the immature flea can go into a dormant state without feeding for up to a year or more and then revive within seconds on feeling the vibration from the footfall of a potential meal. For this reason properties which have been empty for a while often provide a little surprise for the new owners.

Often the family holiday is the time when people notice they have a flea problem, having put the family pet in kennels for a couple of weeks the resident flea population is starving and eager to greet them on their return.

There is however a dangerous side to fleas, we all know they were responsible for transmission of plague and thankfully we don’t have that to contend with anymore but they can set off serious skin irritations in susceptible people including dermatitis.

They also have a more sinister side. The flea is an intermediate host for tapeworm.

When the flea dines on an animal infected with tapeworm it can ingest the worm eggs which pass into its guts. These infected fleas can then be ingested by a cat or dog during self-grooming and the worms infect the new host.

Worse still it is easy for a human baby or toddler to accidentally ingest these fleas when crawling on flea infested carpets.

In order to clear a flea infestation it will be necessary to treat both the animal and the carpets and soft furnishings of the property and outdoor areas where the animal may frequently visit. A professional pest controller will often use both an insecticide and a growth retardant hormone to interfere with the flea life-cycle. The cat or dog will need to be treated at the same time by a veterinary surgeon.

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The Return Of The Rat – Our Most Reviled Pest Thrives

The Return Of The Rat – Our Most Reviled Pest Thrives – The rat population of Britain is currently at an all time high, fortnightly waste collections, lack of sewer baiting and the late night takeaway are all cited as culprits in this rodent explosion, but what do we really know about the humble creatures that thrive in our sewers and induce almost universal fear and loathing in all who encounter them.

Rats are not native to Europe or North America but originate in Asia and almost certainly arrived in Europe as stowaways on trading ships, indeed the common name for Rattus rattus is the ship or black rat.

Brown Rat

In Asian folklore the rat is a prominent character, in Hindu mythology the elephant-headed god Ganesh is accompanied by a rat wherever he travels. An offering to Ganesh and his companion Vahana the rat is therefore an important part of Hindu worship.

To the Romans the sighting of a white rat was considered to be lucky but if you found that rats had chewed your belongings then you should postpone any business affairs that you were planning that day or they would surely fail.

Reviled in the west, the rat is revered in Chinese mythology, being part of the Chinese zodiac and respected for its quick wit and resourcefulness. The rat is considered good luck in China & Japan where it is credited with bringing the gift of rice to the world.

To the Polynesians rats were an easily bred and transportable source of food

In 1347 the Mongols laying siege to the Crimean city of Caffa began to succumb to a mysterious illness that killed swiftly and mercilessly. In order to weaken the city the Mongols catapulted the bodies of their own dead over the city walls and within days the inhabitants of Caffa also fell prey to the disease.

However, a group of Italian merchants were allowed to leave the city and return to Italy, and probably unknowingly took with them the Black Death, Yersinia pestis.

Black or Ship Rat

The ensuing plague raged throughout the continent reaching Britain in 1348 with up to 90% mortality in some areas and it reappeared in Europe in every generation for over four hundred years.

We now know of course that the rat was a carrier, or to be more precise the fleas that the rats carried on their bodies were the agents of plague transmission.

Indeed whilst being in no way established in fact, it is possible that the children’s story of the Pied Piper of Hamlyn is an allegory of the plague, it certainly indicates that the rat population was booming at the time.

Every cloud however has a silver lining and the survivors of the 14^th century plagues found that they could now demand higher wages and better conditions as the shortage of workers in the wake of plague deaths created a seller’s market for labour. The rise of the Yeoman Farmer and the British class system could be argued to be attributed to the humble rat.

Into modern times and the Black Rat is now almost extinct in the British Isles, having been replaced from the 18^th century onwards by the Brown or Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus) and it is this creature that now thrives in our sewers, on our streets and in our homes and it is when we encounter it there that it creates most revulsion.

A typical rat weighs around 200 – 300 grams or half to three quarters of a pound, and has a tail around the same length as its body, often making it appear bigger than it really is.

One of the primary functions of a rat’s tail is thermo-regulation; it uses its tail to dissipate body heat. When a rat’s temperature falls it restricts blood flow into its tail.

Rats are rodents, the word comes from the Latin ‘Rodere’ meaning ‘to gnaw or eat away’, aptly named as their teeth never stop growing and they gnaw on hard objects to keep them sharp, unfortunately this can often include electrical wiring and water pipes. A rat’s teeth can penetrate mild steel.

Often a rat will move into a loft or roof void looking for somewhere safe to give birth, being excellent climbers the interior of the cavity wall of the building is a common route, especially if there is an underground breach in the drainage system.

They are sexually mature at around 13 weeks and have a gestation period of about 20 –22 days giving birth typically to 7 – 10 young per litter.

They are naturally shy and nocturnal creatures said to suffer from ‘neophobia’ a fear of anything new in their environment.

Often the first signs that a house is infested will be the patter of tiny feet on the upstairs plasterboard ceilings, although with the modern trend for roof insulation an infestation can often go undetected for quite some time. In homes with floorboards gnawing will often be heard in the sub-floor area.

Their need to eat will often betray their presence, food stored in cupboards will be taken, cereal packets chewed, chocolate and crisps are favourites, although a rat often has a diet that we would find somewhat strange.

The rat has no ability to taste ‘bitter’ foods so it can quite happily munch away on a bar of soap for the fat content. Pest controllers use this as a safety feature and all rat poison is coated in a bitter substance that the rats can’t taste but which would make it totally unpalatable to a dog or a child.

Although the rat is no longer a plague carrier it does come with a number of unwelcome traits. It is a carrier of a number of diseases including Murine Typhus, Salmonella and Weil’s Disease, spread from rats’ urine, which unfortunately usually claims at least one life in Britain each year.

If you have a rat infestation then you have a legal duty to remedy it and in extreme circumstances forced entry to your property can be made against your will.

As a final sting in the tail, many household insurance policies specifically exclude damage by vermin so if a rat chews your wiring and the house burns down you may find yourself without insurance cover.

Hated, despised and unloved the humble rat continues to share and shape our environment in ways that we do not see or appreciate and despite our best effort the rat and man will always co-exist.

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Pest Control In Manchester & Other Large Cities by Ken Chadwick

Big city pest control brings its own set of special circumstances which sometimes require a different approach to smaller and quieter towns.

Firstly the very logistics of working in a busy big city can be problematic, even the basics of parking your van near the customers’ premises can be difficult especially when equipment needs to be carried. This can lead to increased charges which have to be passed onto the customer and sometimes these can be substantial.

Premises are often open seven days a week and even twenty-four hours a day thus leaving little opportunity for the pest controller to go about his work.

This may not cause too much difficulty in routine preventative inspection visits but can cause extreme problems when infestation is detected in that often pesticides require premises to be vacated for a period of time.

Big towns & cities usually have a large number of takeaways providing food to eat on the go and often will be littered overnight with uneaten food scraps providing food for rats, pigeons and seagulls which have now moved inland.

Often daily waste collections mean that bagged food waste is put outside overnight thus encouraging rodents.

Pigeons & Seagulls are obviously a nuisance with their noise and fouling but often will take food stuffs up onto roofs and ledges causing a build up of rotten materials which produce flies and maggots.

Pigeons will often roost and nest in roof spaces for many years leading to a large build up of pigeon guano and often their droppings can make the walkways below slippery and dangerous.

Most big cities have a varied ethnic mix with a variety of shops and restaurants supplying foods from all over the world. Often these foods are imported in bulk from countries where pests such as cockroaches are endemic and these pests are then brought into the U.K. hidden away in the goods and packaging.

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of big city pest control is the resurgence of the bed bug which in recent years has seen numbers rise exponentially.

A high transient population of visitors often staying in inexpensive, high turnover accommodation means that the bugs can spread quickly throughout a city and even expensive upmarket establishments are not exempt.

The very nature of a bed bug infestation means that it is difficult and expensive to cure and news of infestation is often of interest to local press who will often carry a story about a guest being bitten, thus ruining the reputation of the establishment.

Bed bug infestations require that the infested bedroom and those adjacent be treated thus losing revenue for the establishment.

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How To Get Rid Of Ants In Your House Permanently – Spring Special Offer

Get Rid Of Ants In Your House Permanently – spring is here and with it comes the annual scourge of ants which for many people can be nothing short of a nightmare.

In North West England the summers of 2007 & 2008 were very poor and the ants did not thrive, a respite for those who suffer ants in the house on an annual basis but already 2009 looks like it will be the summer of the ant as calls are being received already.

Those that suffer know that flying ants in the house can be a nightmare, almost impossible to cure as the nests are hidden in cavity walls and beneath floors, and the only way to destroy the nest is to kill the queen. This is all but impossible using powders and potions from hardware stores.

There are a variety of new techniques available to pest controllers now which are highly effective in dealing with ant infestations.

These range from using micro-encapsulated insecticides which stick to the worker ants’ bodies and are taken back into the nest and a special technique which effectively puts an impenetrable barrier around the house which the ants cannot cross.

This involved drilling tiny holes into the cavity walls from the outside of the property and blowing in an insecticidal powder under pressure which forms a barrier that the ants cannot cross.

This will effectively prevent the ants inside from foraging outside and dooms the colony.

We are able to give a three year guarantee which is then extendable indefinitely in periods of three years by topping up the powder.

There is no smell or odour and it is perfectly safe for children and pets and can be done whilst the property is occupied.

For a short period we are offering a 30% discount on our normal prices so for a limited period the costs would be as follows

Semi-detached house £175.00

*Detached house £225

*Terraced House £125

Prices apply throughout South Lancashire, Greater Manchester and North Cheshire, further afield work will require a supplement.

All with three year guarantee including unlimited *free call outs

On terraced & semi-detached we can only guarantee the treated walls, so if they are coming in through the untreated party wall there is little we can do unless your neighbours agree to treatment.

To have a chat with us or arrange a free site survey to establish if your premises are suitable call us now on Free phone 0800 019 8382 or 01257 230637

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How To Get Rid Of A Wasps’ Nest by Ken Chadwick

Stockport Wasps' Nest 2007

How To Get Rid Of A Wasps’ Nest – The 2009 wasp season is almost with us once more, what would summer be without our old friends the wasps to annoy us as we enjoy our summer evening barbeques?

The biology of the wasp means they are rarely seen much sooner than July as until then only the wasp queen is in the nest.

In late March or early April the over-wintered queens leave their hibernating sites to seek nesting places which could be in a hole in the ground, a bush or artificial structures such as chimneys eaves, lofts and attics, garden sheds etc.

The queen starts to construct her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small pieces of wood mixed with saliva; this is known as Wasp paper.

She will raise the first few workers by her own efforts and those workers will then continue the enlargement of the nest and caring for the immature Wasps to follow.

Nest construction gets into full swing in June and will reach its maximum in size in September, when 5 – 30,000 workers may be in the nest. These workers will forage for food up to 400 metres from the nest. The size of wasps’ nests will vary from year to year, the severity of the previous winter is probably the key factor.

In the Autumn the young queens mate and leave the nest to hibernate, the rest of the nest dies out and the nest is never reused.

Many People react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, while others suffer considerable pain and swelling and a few become seriously allergic to being stung, which in rare cases results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.
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It is advisable to let a professional Pest Control Officer deal with a Wasps’ nest for the reasons mentioned above. An insecticide will be injected into the entrance to the nest. Returning wasps will carry the insecticide into the centre of the nest and within a short time all wasps should be dead.

It is not a good idea to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the new queens produced by the nest will invariably nest nearby in the following spring resulting in many more nests the following year. For this reason several nests are often found close together in a neighbourhood a locality.

That concludes this article entitled – How To Get Rid Of A Wasps’ Nest

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The metamorphosis of queen bees

Before a female bee becomes a queen she will go through a metamorphosis from an egg to a stage of a mature queen which will occur in about 23 days. The phases include: egg – larva – capping of the queen cell – pupa – emerging pupa, virgin queen bee – nuptial flight – a mature queen bee ready to lay eggs.

In fact, those are the worker bees that make queens. After a queen bee has laid eggs in queen cups, the worker bees start to select which among all those larvae should be developed to be queens. They will then provide more quality food, which is the royal jelly, to those selected larvae. Although all larvae are fed with royal jelly at the beginning for several days, but only queen larvae will be fed continuously and exclusively. The rest of the larvae will become worker bees.

Queen bees are raised in very special constructed cells. Initially the eggs were placed in queen cups, as the larva emerge the worker bees then build it further to become a queen cell to exclusively feed the larva. The worker bees then will cap the queen cell with beeswax. In these cells larvae will develop into pupae. In about 7 – 10 days the pupa becomes a virgin queen bee and tries to emerge from the queen cell.

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Upon maturity the virgin queen bee in her peanut-like cell will try to go out by chewing a circular opening on the cap cell made by the worker bees. After most of the cap has been cut, the cap will eventually swing open resembling a hinged closure. With the presence of the virgin queen, the old mother queen will give way to the young virgin and voluntarily leave the hive with the primary swarm.

A virgin queen is a bit larger than most of the worker bees, but smaller than the mated laying queen. In fact, a virgin queen is not easily distinguished when put together with the worker bees in a frame. She moves actively and can run across the honeycomb, scrambles over the workers and may even fly if she feels annoyed by the workers. You can frequently find a virgin queen hanging on the hive wall or corner.

The deadly queen competition

As soon as a virgin queen bee emerges from her cell, she will look for other emerging queen bees with only one straight purpose, to kill them! As there are many virgin bees in a colony, with all of them having the same purpose, it is most likely that a war of virgin bees is about to happen.

Virgin bees do not just killed their direct rival virgin bees, but also the un-emerged virgin bee still occupying its cell. You can often see an opened side of a queen cell with a dead pupa inside, indicating an assassination by another virgin queen.

When the swarm mode of a colony continues and the primary swarm has left the hive, the worker bees can temporarily hold the virgins fighting each other. Some virgins may leave and follow an after-swarm, while other virgins will stay and look for an opportunity to continue the deadly competition

At the end only one virgin remains who will become the new queen bee. If a primary swarm has both a new young queen and an old queen in the same time, the new queen will let the old queen to live and continue to lie down. After a few weeks the old queen will eventually die naturally and time has come for the young virgin to take over.

The nuptial flight

This is an important phase of the queen bee where she mates with bee males and then land to start the new generation of a colony in a hive. The mating is typically carried out during a flight of the queen and male bees, hence called nuptial flight.

The mating should happen in a clear weather with the absence of rain which could be a trouble for flying insects. The queen starts to release pheromones to attract the males. However, after releasing the pheromone it often happens that the queen tries to escape the males letting only the fastest and fittest male bees to mate her. The mating will occur during the flight.

It is common that a queen will mate with a number of males and stores the sperm in a special organ in her abdomen which can last for her whole life. This sperm storage is good for about 20 years which can produce ten of millions fertilized eggs. The queen is now ready to lay eggs continuously and she totally becomes an egg laying machine to breed the younger bee generation. Oh, what a life of a queen bee.

Uno Birawan is a writer and wrote a lot about beekeeping. You can find the information on Carniolan Bees here or by visiting his site www.thehoneybeekeeper.com
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And bees produce honey, that is consumed by humans and other animals around the world. Bees are raised commercially for numerous reasons, however primarily for the honey that they produce. Honey is not a vital food for humans, but as a sweetener it’s healthier than sugar, and as a food additive it adds flavor to everything from pumpkin soup to barbecue sauce. We even use honey for medicinal purposes.

How do bees manufacture this food? Bees themselves eat honey, thus they must have a continuing stored-up offer, significantly within the winter when flora is dormant. Bees build honey from nectar, which worker bees collect from varied plants as they create their daily rounds. Typically, it is older employee bees that do that foraging; they can fly from flower to flower, using their proboscis as a type of straw to drink up liquid nectar and store it in a sac in their bodies, the “honey stomach.”

Nectar is concerning 80 % water, with most of the remainder sucrose (a disaccharide, or advanced sugar). In an exceedingly process called inversion, the employee bees break down these advanced sugars into glucose and fructose — monosaccharides, or straightforward sugars. This method occurs whereas the nectar is still inside the honey stomach, and while the bee continues to be flying from flower to flower, drinking more nectar. The method is executed by an enzyme, invertase, that converts most of the sucrose into glucose and fructose. A second enzyme, glucose oxidase, breaks the glucose further down into gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide. Gluconic acid ensures a low pH, rendering honey an inhospitable atmosphere for bacteria, mildew, and fungi; the hydrogen peroxide provides short-term protection against microbes. These properties make the converted nectar — and the eventual honey — a safe food for bee larvae, and conjointly enhance honey’s medicinal uses for humans.

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Once the honey abdomen is full, the employee bee returns to the hive and regurgitates the nectar, already converted by enzymes. But, the substance remains concerning 80 p.c water, most of which must now be evaporated. The nectar is injected into honeycomb cells, and employee bees who reside within the hive beat their wings furiously to evaporate the water content. The nectar gradually thickens into honey, that is solely fourteen-eighteen percent water. Once the thickening is complete, the honeycomb cells are capped with beeswax, to be consumed later by bees or fed to bee larvae, or to be harvested by a beekeeper.

Individual bees are in a position to provide solely tiny amounts of honey during their lifetimes — a fraction of a teaspoon. However, a hive with 50,000 bees will turn out as abundant as 200 pounds of honey in a year.

Because bees themselves use honey as a primary source of food for themselves and their young, are not beekeepers then “stealing” food from bees when they harvest this product? In point of fact, bees are capable of making abundant a lot of honey than they need. If a honeycomb that’s overflowing with honey is removed and emptied by a beekeeper and then replaced in the hive, the bees can see that it’s empty, and will immediately move out, collect a lot of nectar, and build a lot of honey. Beekeepers usually install prefabricated wax honeycombs, sparing the bees the trouble to make their own honeycombs. The bees then have that much more time to form honey. Beekeepers do want to make sure not to overharvest, and to make sure that their bees have enough honey to urge through the winter months, when nectar collecting isn’t possible. However, if the hive is properly managed, a bee colony can give enough honey for its own functions as well as for a beekeeper’s profit.

Even in the wild, bees tend to overproduce honey; this can be what they’re programmed to do. Such chronic overproduction could seem somehow inefficient or wasteful, contrary to the otherwise strictly efficient laws of nature. However, united former UK beekeeper points out in an exceedingly blog, it may be just as pertinent to ask why some humans whose bank accounts are already full to bursting continue to work long hours at their jobs, making additional and a lot of cash that they’re going to never be able to spend. The question  could be value some reflection.
Robert Mccormack has been writing articles online for nearly 2 years now. Not only does this author specialize in Bee-Pollen-Health, How Do Bees Make Honey?. You can also check out his latest website about: Bee-Pollen-Health How Do Beekeepers Collect Bee Pollen?
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Killer bees are a hybrid of African and European honey bee species and were accidentally introduced into the ecosystem from a laboratory in Brazil in 1956, where scientists were attempting to create a strain of bee with improved honey production.

The Africanised queens and consequently the colonies escaped, swarmed and began to quickly establish themselves throughout South and Central America. The first sign of Africanised bees in the United States was in October 1990, in Southern Texas. The bee then spread steadily across the southern part of the United States where the winters are mild and the summers are very warm. However scientists and entomologists believe that the Africanised bees are now adapting to colder climates and roaming further north at an average rate of 2 miles per day. If this projection is true, it could become a major problem to the European honey bee within the United States and possibly eventually even Europe.

How to identify a killer bee.

People are often surprised to learn that killer bees are in fact slightly smaller in size than European bees. They are however virtually indistinguishable from each other when viewed with the naked eye and precise identification can only be done microscopically.

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The Africanised bee will become agitated as a result of a perceived threat ten times quicker than a European bee. The latter will stay closer to their hive to defend it if they feel threatened and most of the colony will stay inside and start working to remove their honey stores, leaving just a few guard bees to see off the threat. However Africanised bees will leave their hive en masse’ to defend it, surrounding the perpetrator and inflicting as many stings as possible and are also likely to give chase for up to a quarter of a mile. It is this behaviour pattern that has led to them being called ‘Killer bees’. One of the main reasons why they behave in such an aggressive collective manner is that unlike the European honey bee their main focus is not on their honey stores, but on multiplying their numbers. This is because they are originally adapted to live in warm climates where winter hibernation is not necessary and therefore the need for large honey stores does not arise. For this reason they collect much more pollen (necessary for growth in young) and as a result are in fact better pollinators.

Nesting

European honey bees rarely build nests on the ground or in exposed locations, whereas Africanised bees will build a nest anywhere they can find a hole large enough to fit through and their nests are much smaller. If they cannot find a suitable concealed location they will nest in the ground or in tree branches. The Africanised bees will often invade a European bee colony replacing its queen with one of their own.

Swarming

European honey bees swarm once or twice a year, whereas the Africanised honey bees swarms ten times or more a year allowing them to colonize much larger areas. Furthermore, the Africanised bees will completely abandon or ‘abscond!’ from their nests whenever environmental factors become unfavourable, whereas European honey bees rarely ever abandon a nest completely.

The Future

Africanised bees are effectively a work in progress as they continue to breed with European bees. Scientists and beekeepers however are now using selective breeding programmes to try to control and manage the problem. In particular it is recognised that the African bee has a lot of positive traits, for example it is more disease and pest resistant than the European bee and is a more active forager. Therefore by selecting these traits in addition to trying to breed out its aggressive ones, the end result may be more favourable than was once feared.

Maggie Roberts is a professional writer and beekeeper, with a particular passion for sharing her knowledge of bees and their role in the natural world. If you would like more information, help to start beekeeping or just to learn more about bees, then see http://www.beekeepingbeesandhoney.com
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Whether you’re entirely new to bee pollen or a skilled herbal and holistic therapist, you will find something of use when reading about the differences between bee pollen and royal jelly in this article.

The biggest difference, which I will touch on towards the end of the article, is that bee pollen, and specificallyNew Zealandbee pollen is a better product both nutritionally and health wise than royal jelly.

Both bee pollen and royal jelly belong to a branch of alternative therapy known as Apitherapy.

Apitherapy is the treatment and prevention of bodily ailments through the use of honey bee products. This includes bee pollen, royal jelly, beeswax, propolis, honey and bee venom.

We are going to cover two of the most popular products in this article and consider what the difference between bee pollen and royal jelly is.

What Is Royal Jelly?

Royal jelly is a secretion made from the worker bees of a honey bee colony. It is produced solely for the nutrition and development of all bee larvae up to 3 days old and for the continual development of all chosen Queen Bee larvae.

It is the constant ‘soaking’ in royal jelly that the chosen larvae do, that allows them to become Queen Bees instead of worker bees.  Hence the name royal jelly!

Royal jelly offers a range of health benefits and is considered a highly potent anti-aging product.

It is that renowned as an anti-aging product, that is commonly used in many cosmetics and toiletries that offer anti-aging effects.

This bee product is also perfectly suited for the balancing of hormonal problems such as PMT, and for increasing both libido and fertility in men and women. Because of these traits royal jelly has been considered an aphrodisiac since the ancient civilizations.

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How Does Bee Pollen Differ To Royal Jelly?

Bee pollen differs in many respects to royal jelly.

The key difference between bee pollen and royal jelly in the honey bee hive is that it is fed only to the worker bee and drone larvae over 3 days old. Thus in some aspects it is the ‘commoners’ food.

When it comes to its health benefits you will find a substantial difference to royal jelly. Bee pollen is known for its breathtaking and utterly impressive benefits to human life.

It is adept at helping with the treatment and prevention of prostate related issues in men, and many scientific research papers have agreed with this.

Bee pollen is also an excellent general prophylactic, strengthening the immune system. It allows our bodies to remain strong and provide adequate defense against common colds and flus.

The best and the biggest difference between bee pollen and royal jelly are the levels of nutrition. Bee pollen is that dense in nutrition that it contains all of the vitamins and minerals for optimal body functioning.

Due to this major abundance of vitamins, and in particular B vitamins, bee pollen is known for its energy boosting qualities. This allows you to get more done in your day, it has allowed athletes to perform better, and academics to think clearer and see problems in a whole new light.

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The biggest downside of Apitherapy is that its products are highly sensitive to pollution and as such need to be harvested from perfect environments for its products to be as beneficial as they can be.

There is one such place, and furthermore, one such company that can offer the highest quality bee pollens available.

The place isNew Zealand, a country famed for its low level of pollution, expansive and wondrous landscapes, wide diversity of plant life and superlative levels of air quality. Together this makes for the perfect environment to harvest bee pollen from.

The company which offers you this incredible product fromNew Zealandis Xtend Life. Only at Xtend Life will you find a product of such quality to better your life and provide you all of the remarkable benefits bee pollen has to offer.

So remember, the major difference between bee pollen and royal jelly, is that bee pollen is miraculously packed full of healthy, energy boosting, body strengthening and mind sharpening vitamins and minerals, and royal jelly isn’t.

It is this array of nutrition from quality producers such as Xtend Life, which can better your live and allow you to do, what you want to do!

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Like the three real-life examples above taken from GardenWeb.com, Internet gardening forums are peppered with reports of bees, wasps and hornets attacking viciously from underground nests. Quite a few bee and wasp species build their nests underground and several species, taking advantage of the shelter provided by ground surface debris, build their nests under stray boards, loose slabs of rock or in wood piles. Underground bees have even been known to build nests in undisturbed compost piles.

There are several solitary species of bees and wasps, those that live singly, that nest underfoot. Mud daubers and potter wasps build their single-celled, ground-level nests in wet areas near ponds, poorly drained yards or near dripping outdoor faucets. Digger bees, digger wasps and cicada killer wasps dig single burrows several inches deep into dry or sandy ground. Mammoth 2-inch long cicada killers have a particular affinity for nesting in sand traps which can make them a problem on golf courses. Several solitary bee species, including cicada killers and halictid (sweat) bees nest in groups, locating their individual burrows close together. However, solitary bee and wasp species are relatively docile and not particularly defensive of their nests. They pose only a limited problem to humans, rarely stinging unless stepped on; but their habit of nesting near areas occupied by humans can create occasional problems for gardeners, landscape workers, golfers or barefoot children.

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The real threat from underground bees, wasps and hornets (a type of wasp) comes from species that live socially in colonies that can number in the hundreds. Opportunistic insects, social bees and wasps often colonize abandoned animal burrows but will also tunnel into the ground, excavating multiple passages to house the colony and hold the queen’s eggs and developing larvae. Some ground bees such as bumble bees are fairly docile, attacking only when disturbed or threatened. Other ground-dwellers, particularly yellowjackets (a species of wasp) are highly aggressive and may attack without warning. Yellowjackets are so sensitive to noise and vibration that a running lawn mower can trigger an attack.

The sight of attacking ground bees or wasps is frightening. They shoot out of the narrow entrance to their underground nest like a stream of machine gun bullets, attacking and stinging immediately. Releasing pheromones that incite their nest mates to frenzied attack, they will try to swarm over their foe and can be relentless in their pursuit. While many humans can outrun bees and wasps, which have a 6- to 7-mile-per-hour flight speed; the speed of ground bee attacks takes most victims by surprise, causing panic that can hinder their escape to safety. Few people survive a ground bee or wasp attack without suffering multiple stings, particularly in late summer when colonies have reached maturity and stinging insects are at their most aggressive.

Ground bees and wasps pose a considerable threat to humans because they frequently build their nests in areas shared by humans – lawns, gardens, parks and golf courses –and because their nests usually go undetected until they are disturbed and the insects have launched their attack. The slight domes or narrow openings that mark the entrances to underground bee and wasp nests are often hidden by lawn or garden vegetation. The shallow depressions caused by excavated nests can easily be mistaken for natural low spots in a lawn. Nests built under ground debris remain invisible until the debris is removed. When underground bee and wasp nests are discovered it is usually by observation of heavy bee traffic in a specific area. Bees or wasps consistently seen hovering over a patch of lawn or garden generally indicate the entrance to an underground nest. Careful observation from a safe distance will reveal insects entering and exiting an opening in the ground. Heavy bee traffic to and from a piece of debris or woodpile and the sight of insects milling around the area are a good indication that wasps or hornets have built a nest under the debris and into the ground.

The internet offers a number of “home cures” for the elimination of ground bees and wasps. Most of these do-it-yourself pest control techniques are of questionable effectiveness, can be detrimental to landscape plantings, and carry a high element of risk to the home owner’s health and safety. Seldom does a home owner escape without multiple stings when trying to eliminate an underground bee or wasp nest. Until a nest is eliminated and dug up, there is no way to know how large the colony is or how many exit holes the nest contains. Ground nests always have multiple exits. Bees and wasps can easily attack from a secondary exit while a home owner is attempting to treat the primary nest entrance. The elimination of ground bees and wasps should be handled by licensed pest control experts who have the requisite knowledge, safety gear and pest control products and equipment to safely and effectively eliminate dangerous stinging pests.

Jesse Eaton is a member of the pest professional team at ChemTec Pest Control. This New Jersey based pest control firm serves commercial and residential clients. ChemTec Pest Control is located at 186 Saddle River Road, Saddle Brook, NJ. You can reach the bee and wasp experts at ChemTec Pest Control at (201) 843-0780 or by email at wecare@chemtecpest.com. Please visit us on the Web at www.chemtecpest.com (http://www.chemtecpest.com).
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Bed bugs are demanding pests to control. Since they can hide in so numerous places, treatments should be thorough and elimination is not usually a certainty. In many cases, it will be sensible to enlist the expertise of an expert. Skilled pest management firms know where to search for bed bugs, and have a variety of management tools at their disposal.

Owners and residents provide an crucial role and definately will want to aid the expert. Affording entry for assessment and treatment is essential, and excess clutter will need to be removed. Belongings strewn about rooms afford several locations for bed bugs to hide, and impedes inspection and treatment. Some pest control firms want furniture moved away from walls and mattresses and box springs stood on edge prior to they arrive; other people prefer to inspect 1st and move these items themselves. Since bed bugs can disperse throughout a building, it usually is going to be needed to inspect adjoining rooms and apartments.

Bed Bugs Treatment Procedures. Infested and infestation-prone bed linen and clothes will want to be bagged and laundered (120°F minimum) since these items can’t be treated with insecticides. An additional efficient and efficient choice would be to place clothing, toys, shoes, backpacks, etc., in a clothes dryer set at medium to high heat for 10 to 20 minutes. This will kill all bed bug life stages and could be carried out alone or in conjunction with laundering. Based on textile experts at the Drycleaning & Laundry Institute (Laurel, MD), most garments designated as ‘dry-clean only’ (e.g., cotton, wool, silk, linen, rayon, nylon, poly blends) are not harmed provided they are dry prior to being placed in a clothes dryer at moderate (less than 160?F) settings. While dry cleaning procedures also kill bed bugs, there is risk of infesting the establishment when buggy items are de-bagged, tagged and sorted.

Items which can’t be put in a washer or dryer can often be de-infested by wrapping in plastic and placing them outdoors in a hot, sunny location, closed vehicle, etc. for at least a day. If this method is attempted, packing fewer items per bag makes it harder for the bugs to find cooler places to hide. Monitoring with a thermometer is sensible, using a target internal temperature of at least 120°F. Bed bugs also will succumb to cold temperatures below 32°F, but the freezing temperatures should be maintained for a number of days. Consequently, throughout much of the country, heating tends to be a faster, more reliable choice than chilling. Attempts to rid an entire dwelling of bed bugs by raising or lowering the thermostat will probably be unsuccessful, although some companies are having success using supplemental heaters.

General housecleaning actions, such as vacuuming floors and surfaces, seldom reaches the places where bed bugs hide. Targeted vacuuming of infested harborages, however, can help remove some of the bugs prior to treatment with insecticides. Bed bugs and especially the eggs might be difficult to dislodge. Optimum results will likely be achieved by moving and scraping the end of the suction wand along infested areas such as seams and fabric folds of beds and sofas, and the perimeter edge of wall-to-wall carpets. Afterward, dispose of the vacuum contents in a sealed trash bag. Some pest control firms also employ commercial steamers or rapid freezing equipment to treat areas where bed bugs are found or suspected. Used correctly, they kill both bugs and eggs on contact. Neither method, however, affords residual protection against bed bugs which could have been missed.

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At times it could be required to throw out infested items, especially beds and upholstered furniture. Knowledgeable pest control firms are able to advise clients on what can stay and what need to go. When infested items are discarded, bagging or wrapping them prevents dislodgement of bugs en route to the Dumpster®.

While the above mentioned procedures are helpful, insecticides are critical for bed bug elimination. Professionals treat using a variety of low-odor sprays, dusts and aerosols. Baits designed to control ants and cockroaches are ineffective. Application entails treating all areas where the bugs are discovered or tend to crawl or hide. This could take hours of effort and follow-up visits are normally needed.

Some bed bug species are parasites of bats or birds, and could bite men and women if the wild hosts are no longer available. If bat bugs or bird bugs are involved, roosting and nesting sites need to be the primary focus of treatment and the animals excluded from the building.

Do I Need to Throw Out the Bed? Eliminating bed bugs from beds might be challenging. If there are holes or tears in the fabric, the bugs and eggs could be inside, as well as outside. There also are restrictions on how beds might be treated with pesticides. For these reasons, companies sometimes recommend that beds be discarded, especially when heavily infested or in poor condition. An additional alternative would be to encase both the mattress and box spring in a protective cover like those used for allergy relief. Encasements specifically designed to help protect againstbed bugsare available through retail outlets or pest control firms. Once the cover is installed and zipped shut, any bugs which happen to be inside are entombed and eventually will die. Encasements also help protect newly purchased beds, and make it easier to spot and destroy any bugs residing on the outer surface during subsequent examination. Encasements will not, however, keep bed bugs from crawling onto a bed and biting a sleeping person.

Bed bugs are regularly found on the undersides of box springs
Bed bugs are regularly found on the undersides of box springs.

Some companies treat seams, tufts, and crevices of bed components with insecticides, but they normally will not spray the entire mattress surface. They also should not spray bed sheets, blankets or clothing, which should be laundered. Vacuuming and steaming further help to eliminate bugs and eggs from beds, but afford no residual protection and may not kill bed bugs hidden inside the box spring or mattress. Fumigation is another way to de-infest beds and hard-to-treat items, but the procedure is not always available. In extreme cases, entire buildings have been fumigated for bed bugs. The service can be quite costly though, and involves covering the building in a tarp and injecting a lethal gas. Some companies also de-infest such items with specialized heating equipment.

Preventing Infestations

As difficult as it can be to eradicate bed bugs, it makes great sense to take precautions to avoid them in the first place. Householders should be vigilant when acquiring used furnishings, especially beds and couches. Curbside items should be avoided, and secondhand articles should be examined closely before being brought into the home, and perhaps laundered or placed in a dryer. Avoiding problems with bed bugs is most challenging in apartments, hotels and other places where there are ongoing opportunities for the bugs to be introduced. Preventative inspection by tenants, housekeeping staff, or pest control firms is the best way to uncover infestations in their initial stages when they are easiest to control.

Mattress and boxspring piled along the street curb
Discarded beds and couches might be infested and should be left alone.

Concerned vacationers may want to get in the habit of looking at their bed for signs of bed bugs, a common practice previously. This would entail examining the bed sheets and upper and lower seams of the mattress and box spring, especially along the head of the bed. Some professionals also suggest removal and examination behind the headboard, a frequent hiding place for the bugs in hotel rooms. Headboards are heavy and cumbersome, however, and untrained persons should not attempt removal themselves. If bed bugsare discovered , travelers can request another room, preferably in another area of the building. Vigilant travelers may also want to elevate suitcases off the floor on a luggage stand, tabletop or other hard surface. Should travelers experience itchy welts suggestive of bed bug bites during their stay, it would be prudent upon returning home (before unpacking) to place all clothing in disposable plastic bags and directly into the washer and/or dryer. Inspecting or vacuuming luggage upon arrival home is less useful since it’s hard to spot bed bugs inside a suitcase. The suitcase itself can either be treated or discarded.

The incidence of bed bugs in the United States is increasing to the point where vigilance by all is a prudent practice. Familiarity can help to avoid infestation, or at least prompt earlier intervention by a professional.
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The sunshine days, are an enough reason when people like to step out to enjoy their outside time together and, the same way wasps also enjoys sun and warmth. Like humans wandering taste, wasps too like playgrounds and parks. Wasp’s nature is of bullying types so when one is trying to shoo them away, he/she does not know the danger that they are inviting. If one is bullied with such wasps troubles and, caused headaches when tried end number of times on how to get rid of wasps, with the below mentioned ways, it would be easy to tackle the problems in getting rid of wasps and its nest.

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No matter, how much helpful these wasps could be, but they become aching nuisance in the surrounding and, to the people especially; when their nests are built near the human dwellings.

How to get rid of wasp nests
There is always some risk involved in getting rid of wasps nest because, upon harming the nest, there is every possibility to get attacked and sting from the angry ones. Hence; is wise to exercise the caution while thinking on how to get rid of wasp nests. There are also specialized wasp exterminator services, which are helpful in getting rid of the wasp’s problems.

Clean surroundings
The first thing when it comes down to narrowing the list on how to get rid of wasps task, it is to make sure is that the front and the backyard are immaculately clean. Trim up the lawn and spread ample of pesticides to avoid forming any groupings. Keep all the trash can tightly sealed since; wasps are attracted towards garbage and dirty surroundings.

Arranging for the wasps trap
This is indeed a workable idea, if one is thinking about to how to get rid of wasps. There are various types of traps available these traps work smartly in killing the wasps; they are lured towards the trap where they die naturally. It is worthwhile to have these traps while one has organized backyard party etc.

Hanging a fake nest
One of the smartest ways, while thinking about how to get rid of wasps nest is by hanging fake wasp nest. These miniature creepy creatures are territorial and do not like to compete with any other wasp colony. This is indeed a cheap and painless method of preventing them to build a nest.

Before preparing, with the above applied points on how to get rid of wasps, ensure that the clothing is appropriate. Wear such that types of clothes that are prepared from rubber since; the wasp’s stinger can easily pierce through any standard clothing. Still, if one does not like the advices and concepts about how to get rid of wasp nests, then it is better to approach professional services with which one will have peace of mind about the work accomplished correctly.
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Over the past few years, bed bug infestations in the U.S. have increased by 500%. Researchers cite travel as the No. 1 cause of bed bug spread and infestation. The New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications recently reported a 50% increase in bed bug complaints at hotels between 2009 and 2010. In heavily infested cities in Ohio, more than 70% of hotels have battled bed bug infestations. According to the NPMA 2010 Comprehensive Global Bed Bug Study conducted in conjunction with the University of Kentucky, 67% of 1,000 pest management firms surveyed reported treating bed bug infestations at a hotel or motel in the past 12 months.

Bed bugs feed on human blood and are not attracted by dirt or filth. “Bed bugs are brought into hotels by guests; it is not a hotel sanitation issue,” the American Hotel and Lodging Association said in a statement. These insects are as likely to be found in a 5-star luxury hotel as a modest 1-star motel. And there’s the rub for travelers. A hotel room that is bed bug free one night can be infested the next. Bed bugs do not live on humans. They crawl into beds to feed, then scurry away, hiding in crevices near beds until the next meal. Suitcases and laptop computers placed on the bed make perfect hiding places for these pests. When travelers check out of an infested hotel room, a few bed bugs are likely to stow away in their luggage, creeping out at the next hotel to infest another room or, even worse, following travelers home.

The growing prevalence of bed bugs in the U.S. is no reason to swear off travel and stay home; but travelers who don’t want to bring bed bugs home with them will want to be proactive before, during and after a trip. Use this handy guide to protect yourself from bed bugs when you travel.

Before you book a hotel room
• Check Bed Bug Registry and Trip Advisor online to see if bed bugs have been reported at your preferred hotel. If you find multiple reports, choose a different hotel. A new iPhone app, Bed Bug Alert by Apps Genius in New York City, also reports bed bug outbreaks in 10 major U.S. cities.

• Call the hotel and ask how often rooms are inspected for bed bugs and whether bed bug-proof encasements are installed on the beds.

Before you leave home
• Install bed bug-proof encasements and box springs on all the beds in your home. 

• Educate yourself about bed bugs so you know what to watch for. Bed bugs are small, flat, wingless insects that feed on human blood. From cream-colored nymphs the size of a poppy-seed, bed bugs progress through 5 larval stages to become reddish brown, 1/4-inch long adults. When they feed, bed bugs leave bloody smears and black fecal dots that look like coffee grounds on bed sheets and mattresses. About 50% of people react to their bites and will exhibit itchy, red, mosquito-like bites, usually in rows or groups of three. Whitish skins shed during molting are another indication of bed bug infestation. 

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• Download and print the free New York State Integrated Pest Management Bed Bug Travelers’ Card prepared by Cornell University. This wallet-size card contains bed bug photos and information, making it a handy guide for travelers (and college students).

When you pack
• Pack a small flashlight, disposable gloves and a selection of garbage bags where they will be easily-accessible.

• Choose hard-sided luggage. Bed bugs like to hide in the seams of soft-sided luggage and prefer to lay their eggs on rough surfaces.

• You may want to spray your luggage inside and out with a permethrin-based luggage spray labeled for your particular use. Permethrin provides 2 to 4 weeks of protection against bed bugs. Do not use a house or garden sprays as they have no effect on bed bugs.

• Only pack clothing that can safely be washed in hot water and dried in a hot dryer for a minimum of 30 minutes or dry cleaned.

• Before placing into suitcase, pack clothing and other items into bed bug-proof luggage liners or sealable plastic bags like Ziplock bags. Do not use bags with slider openings as bed bugs can squeeze past sliders to infest bag contents.

When you arrive at your hotel
• Ask to inspect the room before you hand over your credit card.

• Inspect the room following the instructions below.

• If you find evidence of bed bugs, ask for another room in a different part of the hotel or move to another hotel. Do not accept a room that is next to, above or below the infested room as these are the first places bed bugs will migrate as an infestation spreads.

• Repeat the inspection procedure in your new room.

How to inspect a hotel room
• Put your luggage and possessions in the bathtub where bed bugs are least likely to harbor. Bed bugs cannot climb smooth surfaces and prefer to stay near their food source (sleeping humans).

• Put on your disposable gloves and get out your flashlight.

• Start at the bed as 80% of bed bug infestations are found in mattresses and box springs.

• Pull the headboard away from the wall. Bed bugs often harbor in this inaccessible space. If the headboard is attached to the wall with brackets, lift it up and away from the wall (ask a hotel employee for help). Use your flashlight to look for crawling bugs or fecal stains.

• Remove linens and pillows from the beds, inspecting them for bloody smears and black fecal stains.

• Inspect the mattress and box springs, especially seams and piping, for live bugs, shed skins, blood smears and fecal stains.

• Using your flashlight, check the rest of the room, including behind hanging pictures, inside and under drawers (pull drawers all the way out), upholstered furniture, around air vents and along carpet edges.

During your hotel stay
• Keep luggage on luggage racks positioned at least 4 inches from the wall or on hard furniture like a table. If you must place luggage on the floor, place it in resealable plastic bags first. Never lay suitcases or clothing on beds or upholstered furniture.

• Keep suitcases closed when not in use to keep bed bugs from crawling inside.

• Do not unpack your clothing into drawers; keep it inside your suitcase.

• Hang clothing, purses and backpacks in the bathroom or from hangers in the closet.

• Seal purchases in plastic bags.

• Place dirty clothes in disposable bed bug-proof laundry bag or sealed plastic bags.

• Keep shoes in sealed plastic bags.

• Inspect sheets and mattresses for bed bug signs every morning. Request a different room if you wake up with itchy bites or see signs of bed bugs. Some upscale hotels will launder clothing and steam-clean your luggage if bed bugs are found in your room.

When you check out
• Check each item as you pack it, as well as luggage surfaces.

• Seal suitcases in large plastic bags before putting them in your car.

When you return home
• Do not carry suitcases into your house. Unpack on a cleared floor in the garage or laundry room. If you must carry your suitcases through the house to reach the laundry room, seal them in large plastic bags to prevent bed bugs or eggs from falling off and infesting your home. Never unpack on a carpet. Dispose of all bags in an outside trash container.

• Unpack suitcase contents directly into new plastic trash bags, carefully inspecting each item as you unpack it. Dispose of all bags in an outside trash container.

• Sort laundry into trash bags, one load per bag. Even unworn clothing should be laundered. Dispose of all bags in an outside trash container.

• Carry clothes directly to washer and launder in hottest water possible (minimum 120 degrees) and dry at hottest setting for 60 minutes. Remove used bags from home immediately.

• Clothing that cannot be washed should be taken to the dry cleaners in a sealed plastic bag. Alert the cleaners that bed bugs may be present. Make certain that they dispose of all bags.

• Items that cannot be laundered should be frozen in sealed plastic bags for 2 weeks.

• Carefully inspect suitcases with a flashlight, brushing surfaces with a stiff-bristled brush to dislodge any eggs. Vacuum thoroughly and immediately dispose of vacuum bag. Store suitcases in sealed plastic bags in the garage. Never store suitcases in or near bedrooms.

• Vacuum entire house and promptly dispose of sweeper bag in the outside trash.

• For the next few weeks, inspect beds daily for bed bug signs.

What to do if bed bugs follow you home
If, despite all your precautions, you discover evidence of bed bugs in your home after traveling, immediately contact a licensed pest control company with an expertise in bed bug extermination. Bed bugs are extremely prolific insects. During its 6- to 12-month lifespan, a female bed bug can lay 500 eggs with offspring capable of reproducing within a month. Prompt treatment by a pest management professional in the early stages of infestation can save you money and prevent bed bugs from spreading through your home.

Jesse Eaton is a member of the pest professional team at ChemTec Pest Control. This New Jersey based pest control firm serves commercial and residential clients. ChemTec Pest Control is located at 186 Saddle River Road, Saddle Brook, NJ. You can reach the bed bug experts at ChemTec Pest Control at (201) 843-0780 or by email at wecare@chemtecpest.com. Please visit us on the Web at www.chemtecpest.com (http://www.chemtecpest.com).
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There’s a lot of assistance around about the way to get rid of a wasp nest, but which advice is finest? That answer depends a good deal upon numerous factors.

Ultimately is safety very first. When searching into the best way to get rid of a wasp nest, the very first consideration really should be personal safety. Some methods folks recommend could aggravate the wasps, which will attack in a swarm. Other techniques do not allow for a variety of safety protocols, leaving you open for getting swarmed and stung or otherwise harmed in the course of your attempts at removal of the it.

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In the event you need to climb a ladder to remove it may be harmful. This is since the wasps can fly about you and attack if agitated. This may cause you to lose your balance and sustain severe injury. A far better alternative could be to make use of a wasp-killing item initially that has a lengthy range on it, so you do not will need to climb a ladder so that you can apply it. Then, once the wasps are dead, the ladder could be utilized to far more safely eliminate the nest.

Professionals suggest safety gear be worn when attempting to eliminate it. This would be a beekeeper type outfit, with pants and sleeves secured inside gloves and boots. Rubber bands could be placed around gloves to hold sleeve inside and prevent wasps from entering. Duct tape would be wrapped around the tops of the boots for the same reason. Heavy pants, a thick long-sleeved shirt along with a beekeeper hat and hood would function in spot of an whole beekeeper outfit.

Subsequent is timing. When it really is dark outside, the wasps will return to the nest and will be calmer. In the event you can safely get rid of it or apply a wasp killing product at night, with out shining a flashlight or other light source on them or the nest, it is going to be your greatest bet. When it really is daylight or when light shines on them, wasps grow to be extra active and can easily turn out to be aggressive. Even when they’re calm, safety precautions will need to be taken and safety gear must be worn.

The best way to get rid of a wasp nest safely may perhaps involve calling in aid. Hiring an expert pest exterminator is always an alternative. It is actually the most beneficial choice if the nest is up high or has grown very extensive. In the event you question whether or not you may safely eliminate it, contact a professional for support.
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Introduction
Bed bugsBed bugs or bedbugs are small parasitic insects only feed and depend on animal blood.

Bed bug
Some type of bed bugs adjusted and residing as well as human and others species feed and living with warm-blooded wild hosts like bats, dogs, cats, birds and rodents.The scientific common term for bed bugs is Cimicidae. The most typical species of bed bug to the human is Cimex lectularius. The story of bed bugs residing with human was created in medieval European writings and in classical Greek writing back in Aristotle time. Bed bugs generally attack people in the nighttime when they sleep. They feed by piercing the skin using an elongated beak through of which they withdraw blood.Even engorgement takes about 3 to 10 minutes, the person not often knows of the bite. They quickly crawl off and find a hiding place soon after they feed. And they will wait hidden till digest their food. A bed bug bite is painless. It’s their saliva that induce irritation, swelling and redness. Bed bugs never reside within human body as lice. They can stay in virtually any crevice or safe area. They commonly conceal within pillow cover, tufts, seams and crevices on the mattress, box spring, bed-frame and bed head board. Bed Bugs bites or cimicosis may cause numerous health effects including skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms. Proper treatment and precautions should take to eliminate get rid of this dangerous species.

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Ancient Believes Some ancient civilization believed that the bedbugs had therapeutic value that can cure sickness. In ancient Egypt, pills were composed of the bedbug blood-suckers and given to the sick to drink. And also ancient Greeks and Romans utilize the burned bedbugs to get rid of leeches from their bodies.

Facts about bed bugs Bedbugs are blood-sucking parasites staying with worm blooded animals including man, bats, chickens, cat, dogs, birds A bedbug attack is painless. It’s basically its saliva cause itchiness, swelling and redness. They are noises sensitive and mainly feed at bedtime or at a time when clame or situation is night. They nearly can cover in any where or crawl and disappear into anything that is available during a short while span. Their popular hiding locations can be bedclothes, pillow cover, mattresses, bed comes and bed-frames, soft furnishing, cracks and crevices and under wallpaper. Female lay eggs. The eggs are white in color, sticky and are laid in cracks or crevices. Its life time is vastly depend on environmental situation such as temperature, food availability, darkness and hideouts.

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