What’s a pest?  To you it might be the mice living in your metal shed or the birds eating your sunflowers.  It could mean those raccoons that eat your dog’s food at night or the cock roaches scurrying around at night. Whatever you’re meaning of pests is you’ll need the right pest exterminator to get rid of that problem.  Not all pest exterminator’s are made equal.

An exterminator can get rid of any problem you have but you need the right exterminator for the right pest. Some pests can cause a lot of problems and should be exterminatedbefore they cause too much harm, other pest problems are just that, pest problems. Choosing the right pest exterminator is easy if you know what to look for in a professional pest exterminator.

Whether it’s roaches, or other outside invaders, a pest exterminator can eliminate the problem.  The most important thing an exterminator will do is examine the pest problem and decide what the pest is and the best way to get rid of it. If they just come out and start spraying or try to wrap you around a yearly contract they probable don’t know what they are doing.  Always be sure to research or get a friend to recommend a pest exterminator.

Most companies will take care of insects, bugs, mice, fleas and many more but if they don’t normally exterminate, say scorpions, then you want to research until you find a company that specializes in them before hiring them for your pest problem. Choose the right pest company for the right pest.

Make sure they do a through inspection of your home and tell you (in writing) what the problem is and how they will fix it.  Also what chemical or treatment they’ll use and how often it’s needed to control your pest problem.  Since most pest problems can take anywhere from one month to a year to take care of, be wary of promises that your problem can be fixed with one treatment. They may not know what they’re doing and you should continue to look for a good pest serviceIf you choose a yearly service make sure the treatment takes care of interior and exterior.  Pests come from outside to the inside of your house looking for food, water or shelter. Their service should include treatment of soil, turf, or mulch areas outside the house. They should also include door thresholds, windows casing and under eaves as well as any entry points.

Pest exterminators should offer treatments around crack and crevices in the kitchen, bathrooms, and utility rooms.  They should include treatment  around appliances as well.  Your garage and carport should be included in the service.  Don’t forget the attic, crawl spaces and drains where pests can easily get in.

Using the right pest control company for the right pest will effectively rid you of your pest troubles.

Using the right pest exterminator for the right pest will effectively rid you of your pest problems.  Remember no pest exterminator can or will promise you will never have another infestation, but they an certainly help keep the problems out.

John S.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FL — In the St. Augustine Shores neighborhood in St. Johns County, neighbors say one house stands out from the others.

“The whole place is just a total wreck,” says neighbor Mike Kennedy.

Kennedy says he has watched the huge collection of junk in his neighbor’s yard steadily growing larger. It has reached the point where code enforcement visited last week.

“All it’s doing is devaluing the property all around and it’s becoming a real health hazard,” says Kennedy.

And now neighbors say it’s more than the mess. Rats are living in the junk in the yard and spreading out across the neighborhood.

“The rats have just started coming into my yard,” says one neighbor.

“We think the junk inside and outside is what has drawn the rats and is what is making them accumulate there,” says another neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified.

Neighbors are also worried about the woman who lives in the house and uses a wheelchair. They say they have offered to help her but were turned down.

First Coast News went to talk to the homeowner, and off camera she said she has hired someone to move the junk to comply with code enforcement.

But this time she did agree to accept help from her neighbors.

“If it needs to be cleaned up inside, maybe we could help do that. If it had to be repainted, maybe we could get a bunch of volunteers from the neighborhood together and go over and help her,” says Kennedy.
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I set mouse traps and the Beagles tend to nab one every now and then. I don’t know what Eradibait is. I also use d-con and put it in a safe place next to the mouse trap with peanut butter on it. I do that inside and out. It helps a lot. I have to set traps in the driveway to keep the mice out of the cars. People think I’m nuts, but I’d rather be nuts than rewiring my car because a mouse chewed it up, that’s for sure. The Beagles don’t bother the traps and it works out perfect. For a while I was catching about 6 a day. Finally we hit a drop in population!

1. you could bait them…but you must use a lockable trap to avoid children ,pets or non target animal getting to them
2 you should be able to buy cage type traps which use no poisons and do not hurt the animal….the advantage of this is if what you think is a rat may be a native animal and you can release it in a suitable location…
if they are rats you can kill or release them

you can make a trap your self for outside…..buy some PVC pipe ….cut into a lenght that young kids can’t reach the middle
drill a hole both side of the pipe at centre of length
then wire in wax block rodent baits

Try to find out where they first got into your house, and block the entrance. Block as many holes inside and out as you can find. Especially look around all the electrical outlets. Move furniture, look behind appliances, etc. The expanding insulator foam in a can works pretty well to block the holes.

Then remove all food sources. Wash your dishes every night, clean up crumbs the kids leave under the table, take out the kitchen trash daily, keep bread and crackers and cereal in the fridge or plastic containers, clean the crumbs out of the bottom of the toaster, everything.

Then you can get rid of the mice left in the house. If your kids are small, you can use old-fashioned traps in places they can’t reach. Bait them with peanut butter and set them each night. Check them every morning, before the kids start running around. If your kids are older, like 6yrs and up, you can use mouse poison. Show the kids what it looks like and tell them that it will make them sick. If using traps or poison won’t work for you, then you will need to call an exterminator.

You could use something called a live trap, it’ll catch the rats alive. You can release them away from your home and it won’t harm your dogs at all. If you’re too scared of the rats to do this then ask someone else to do it for you.

It’s old-fashioned MOUSETRAP TIME!!

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