Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Helping You Help Us Help You

We want to help you, but sometimes you need to help us help you. For example if your technician tells you not to use that  expensive over-the-counter product you just bought, he's not trying to be bossy. It means that it may counter-act his product and undo all the progress you already made. It is as though your Doctor prescribed an MAO inhibitor, but your yoga teacher told you take St Johns Wort. I know you're trying to help, but sometimes help means following the professionals advice.
   Another way you can help your Pest Management Professional is through sanitation. If he tells you that you need to improve sanitation at your home or business, he is not trying to insult you. He is only trying to explain why you are having a problem and how you can prevent it from re-occuring.
     Suppose you have ants in the kitchen. Spray treatments rarely work on ants, so your tech wants to try a bait. If the ants have some tasty grease under the stove or FrootLoops under the fridge, they might not go for the bait. If you had a delicious sushi platter, you wouldn't look twice at a fish stick.
    Speaking of maintanance, many problems start from dirty gutters. They clog up and the water sits in them and softens the wood. Then some Carpenter Ants move in and weaken the wood even more. Now a squirrel finds the weak wood and chews in so she can have a place to give birth.  Next a raccoon finds the squirrel hole and makes it bigger. Pretty soon you have a re-enactment of The Lion King going on in your attic. And all this could have been prevented by cleaning out your gutters.
    So call us for all your pesty problems and we will tell what needs to be done. We can give you an estimate on gutter cleaning, repairs  or even cleaning your kitchen.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Why Are We Called "Pest Science"?

     There are many companies these days with "green" products or services. For the most part, they are effective and competitively priced, but there are those out there who just want to make money. They think that anyone who cares about the environment is obviously some kind of gullible hippy and deserves to be taken. They will sell you colored water if they think they can get away with it. Remember, it can't be cost-effective if it's not effective.
     They are just jumping on the "Green" band-wagon. These are the same types who go on TV to promote "So_Called Alternative Medicine".  If you have an honest Doctor, he will tell you that if has been proven to work it IS medicine. Anything else either has not been proven to work or has been proven not to work. But he can't advise you on pest control because that's not his specialty. Just like you wouldn't use some wacky alternative medicine that might interfere with your Doctors treatment, so you shouldn't waste your money on over-the-counter bug sprays that might interfere with your exterminators methods
    Sorting through all the misinformation out there can be a baffling ordeal, but we are here to help. We have done the research so you don't have to. Organic solutions are just one component of Integrated Pest Management. IPM means using every tool in the tool-box. Just because a product is labeled "organic" or "eco-friendly" doesn't mean it works better or is safer. So just like the honest Doctor, we only use materials and methods that have been proven to work. Usually, organics are safer and/or more effective, but sometimes a conventional approach is the best solution for a given problem; there is no way to tell ahead of time. We promise to always be up-front with you and discuss the pros and cons before we do anything. We will never use un-proven tools to try and solve your problem; this is why we call ourselves "pest science".