Your Robust Guide of Pest Profiles: Coz Pest Identification Can Be Tricky

Pests are a common nuisance at home. As a home owner, you know that your home deserves the best care and you’ve got to protect it from all kinds of pests. The following are some of the most common types of pests that might be invading your homes and damaging your properties.

Termites

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Termites feed on wood and paper products and their average colony normally reach up to about 300,000 in size. A sign of termite infestation is when you see scattered wings that they lose when mating. If not caught in time, termite infestation can cause serious damage to structures. This is the apparent reason why termites are also known as “silent destroyers”. If you’re suspecting that there are termites in your home, you may consider professional residential pest control.

Carpenter Ants

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Carpenter ants are usually black in color and bigger than most other types of ants. Their colonies can develop to nearly 20,000 strong and can cause major structural damage to the frame of a house or building if not removed.

Bed Bugs

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Bedbugs are small, oval and brownish in color. They usually live on the blood of animals or humans. Adult bedbugs have flat bodies about the size of an apple seed. After feeding, their bodies swell and turn reddish.

Yellow Jacket

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This type of pest can be treacherous particularly to people who are allergic to their venom. They can be recognized by their unique markings, their occurrence only in colonies, and a characteristic, rapid, side-to-side flight pattern prior to landing.

Paper Wasp

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Most wasps are valuable in their natural habitat, and are essential in natural biocontrol. They usually feed on nectar and other insects, like caterpillars, flies, and beetle larvae.

Fruit Flies

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Fruit flies can be seen in many different places such as mops, trash containers, and empty bottles. They also love to stay in your bananas, onions, melons, grapes and strawberries. They are known carriers of bacteria and disease so be sure to seek help from a professional pest control in Florida to get rid of them.

House Fly

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The house fly, Musca domestica Linnaeus, is a common broad-based pest of both farm and home. The life cycle of a house fly starts in the egg stage. A female house fly can lay up to 150 eggs in a batch. Over a period of a few days, she will produce five or six batches of eggs. 

Governments Move to Save the Bees

June this year, governments launched an urgent and comprehensive study of the bee population decline. 

Bees, not only help beautiful flowers grow, mainly they spearhead the pollination process that provide humanity and animals its’ food supply.

Studies showed that the degree of decline in the bee population is already quite alarming. Researchers, scientists and government officials world-wide are now concerned of their own country’s food supply.

Factors have been determined through extensive research, which attributed to the insect decline, were named as follows: use of pesticide, habitat loss and intensive agriculture, among others.

Work is being done today for a comprehensive action plan, which could help increase the bee population and other insect species. There are initiatives for a world-wide “pollination strategy” to help develop an action plan to save the black-gold pollinating insect population.

"We must develop a better understanding of the factors that can harm these insects and the changes that government, other organizations and individuals can make to help", said Lord de Mauley, in regards to the Bee Summit organized by Friends of the Earth.

Lord de Mauley, among others, is moving for the regulation of pest control chemicals and the prohibition of unnecessary use of chemicals in the environment. "I do not deny for a moment that it is important to regulate pesticides effectively and to avoid unnecessary pesticide use.” commented Lord de Mauley, in an interview.

"Changes in land use, the type of crops grown, alien species, climate change - these all have an impact. The relative importance of these factors and their interactions is not well understood.” said de Mauley.

Andy Atkins, the executive director of Friends of the Earth, is pleased with the response to the group’s bee initiative.

"We're delighted that enormous pressure for a Bee Action Plan from scientists, businesses and the public has stung the government into action.” said Atkins in a report.

"We all agree prompt measures are needed to tackle all the threats, to bees and other pollinators face, but an urgent and comprehensive route map and timetable are needed to ensure this happens.”, Andy Atkins added.

Hope the latest news on bees helped shed light to the question, “Are bees’ friends or foes?” All I can say is, we can never bee-too-sure, get it? Bees truly do play an important part in the balance of our ecosystem; the total extermination of the bee population will be detrimental to global food supply resulting to shortages and loss of plant life. No food results to hunger of, not only humans, animals which will eventually lead to starvation and an inevitable death toll on all species. No matter how smart, humans are in this day and age, we are dependent on insects, animals and plants for our own survival. Have you ever seen the “Bee" movie, see it and get the picture of how something so small, can indeed change the world