Advice on Home Pest Control
Saturday, September 26th, 2009Gardening and pest control is at least as old as agriculture. This industry is expanding at a phenomenal rate. In the last 5 years, the pest control industry has seen an increase of about 50%. It is now considered to be a $7 billion industry nationwide.
More and more homes are being built in remote locations. Desert or the woods where people want to live. When you’re building in these areas where insects and animals live, it’s their home. Since they get into your home and are unwanted they become pests.
What is Gardening and Pest Control?
Simply put it means the reduction or eradication of pests. There is a difference between pest control and structural pest control in that the one is control of creatures affecting plants, soil or lawn etc and the other is control of creatures such as termites which invade buildings or outhouses. That can sometimes spill over into the house as well, but by and large, it’s the garden we’re talking about here.
To help promote good health and prosperity, garden and pest control is much needed. The problem is often overlooked until pests get out of control and the damage is severe. There are steps that one can take to help get rid of the problem at hand.
What do you need to do to get rid of the pests in the Garden?
Gardening and pest control is viewed by many people as do-it-yourself job. Well that’s fair enough – up to a point. Gardening pest control is like visiting the doctor: to prescribe effective treatment your physician must correctly diagnose the problem and determine the extent of the injury as well as the potential for further injury. Polls indicated that too many people feel they know what they’re doing when they don’t, and that they don’t need to read or follow the instructions on the can.
This could lead to the serious problem of overconcentrating doses of hazardous insecticides which are harmful in large doses. Naturally, we are talking about chemicals, since chemical pest control remains the primary method used in modern pest control. However, that said, the long-term effects of chemicals has led to a renewed interest in traditional and biological pest control towards the end of the 20th century.
For those who don’t do DIY gardening and pest control, there is the option of monthly visits from your local home pest control company. One of the benefits of having monthly pest control is that somebody should be checking out your house and garden on a regular basis for pest . Often homeowners are so worried about their homes becoming infested that they insist on monthly pest control treatments even when no problem exists.
It is astonishing to see the factual pattern of the pesticides used in the home and the garden;
1. Each year 67 million pounds of pesticides are applied to lawns
2. Agricultural acreage consumes far less pesticide than suburban lawns do.
Before you spray any pesticides, think carefully about what you are about to do. Be careful! Overuse of pesticides may damage the eco system and kill the very insects that are keeping your ‘pest’ numbers down This means you will have to spray more in the future. Also, insects benefit your garden by pollinating your plants, helping them grow and propagate. Persistent, broad-spectrum, contact insecticides such as diazinon, malathion or carbaryl, should never be used. Such products only work for a short time, and are even more likely to kill off the bugs you want around than those you don’t. With their natural enemies eliminated, pest populations will rapidly multiply and you could end up with a bigger problem than you had before.
Most consumers also don’t realize how potentially harmful they can be:
1. Pesticides can be tracked inside as an EPA study found 23 different kinds in the dust and air collected from inside someones home.Consumers don’t realize the dangers.
2. Garden chemicals harm the environment, the US Geological Survey routinely finds every type of garden chemical, particularly weed killers, in the streams and rivers around urban centers.
It’s shocking to some people who feel we cannot live without these pest control methosds.
Gardening and Natural Home Pest Control
We are convinced that the safe and successful way to control pests in your yard is through a natural balance of organisms in your lawn and gardens. Natural pest control protects you, your garden, local wildlife and the environment and, as an added bonus, it costs less than pesticides.
There are several methods that can be used to help eradicate gardening pests:
1. Physical controls like traps, barriers, fabric row covers, or repellants may work for pests.
2. There are a variety of plants that provide both pollen and nectar constantly. Planting these will attract ‘good’ bugs to your garden.
3. If the pests can’t get to your plants,you can eliminaate the damage they cause. When the number of pests is small, you can often get rid of the problem by simply taking them somewhere else.
Many people face this same problem, you are not alone. Hundreds upon hundreds of people around the globe that are also searching for solutions to home pest control problems, so we hope that this has been useful to you.
