Archives for May 2019

A customer today had issues with booklice. She’s recently moved in to a city centre apartment. All her possessions have been left in storage for 3 months. So it is possible the booklice have been in the storage unit and made their way in to the boxes. It is also possible they were in the apartment already especially if left empty for a long time.

Treatment is fairly simple a spray residual insecticide is applied to surfaces like the window sills, units etc. Then a smoke bomb is set off to knock down all the insects in the room. Smoke detectors have to be covered to prevent them setting the buildings fire alarms off. The building manager was also informed incase they went off even when covered. See a video of the smoke bomb below.

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Using working terriers in domestic properties can quickly solve problems. Mice often will feed in the kitchen and then make their nests under the upstairs floorboards. They find their way up there through the gaps that wiring and piping go through inside the walls.

Once up there it is safe away from family and pets, and is kept warm and dry. They often will nest under the bathroom floor as it’s sometimes above the kitchen. Often they will be under the landing floor with the heat of the pipes.

Using the dogs upstairs nests can be quickly found.

Pest Control Liverpool

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A call out yesterday for German cockroaches in Toxteth. They are not as common as they used to be as standards tend to be higher in shops. They are often brought home on the bottom of large bags of foods such as rice, flour and potatoes. They hide in the bottom of the folded flaps of large 20kg bags.

Once in a house they lay eggs rapidly and become a real pest. They cluster round sources of heat such as behind the fridge motor and the back of the boiler.

To kill them an insecticidal bait is used. The cockroaches eat the poison and it takes a few hours to kill them. They return to where all the other cockroaches aggregate and when they die they are eaten by the other cockroaches. This passes the poison to them and starts a cascade process where the poison is spread throughout the population. It is the most effective way of treating them.

A return visit must be made a few weeks later when the egg cases hatch. The process must be repeated to kill the young hatchlings.

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