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Pest Management

Pest Management. Help Yourself to a Healthy Home. Indoor Air Quality Asthma & Allergies Mold & Moisture Carbon Monoxide Lead Drinking Water Hazardous Household Products Pesticides Home Safety. Keep It Dry Keep It Clean Keep It Pest-Free Keep It Ventilated Keep It Safe

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Pest Management

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  1. Pest Management

  2. Help Yourself to a Healthy Home • Indoor Air Quality • Asthma & Allergies • Mold & Moisture • Carbon Monoxide • Lead • Drinking Water • Hazardous Household Products • Pesticides • Home Safety

  3. Keep It Dry • Keep It Clean • Keep It Pest-Free • Keep It Ventilated • Keep It Safe • Keep It Contaminant-Free • Keep It Maintained • Keep it Thermo-controlled HUD &National Center for Health Housing‘s Keys to a Healthy Home

  4. Lesson Objectives At the conclusion of the training be able: Define integrated pest management or IPM Identify 3 actions that are part of an IPM program Know how to safely use pesticides if needed

  5. Questions to Ask about your home?

  6. Do you have pests?

  7. 1 - How did they get into your home? 2 - Where do they live? 3 - How do they reproduce? 4 - What do they like to eat? What do you know about the pests you have in your home?

  8. 1 - Have you tried to keep them out by blocking entry into your home? 2 - Have you kept food out of reach of the pest? 3 - Have you been trying to trap the pest? 4 - Have you been using pesticides? How are your managing or controlling the pests?

  9. How did they get into your home? Plant boxes and open windows? Tree branches touching the house ? In something YOU brought into house Plants close to house

  10. Cockroaches • Ants • Rodents Three Pest Examples

  11. How did the cockroaches get into your home? Plant boxes and open windows? Tree branches touching the house ? In something YOU brought into house Plants close to house

  12. Where do the cockroaches live? Anywhere in a building Prefer spots near water but also need food and warmth In cracks and crevices where their bodies touch surfaces above and below

  13. German Cockroaches Cockroaches American Cockroaches

  14. Multiple eggs in each egg case • Many eggs means many nymphs (babies) • Nymphs look like small versions of the adults How do cockroaches reproduce?

  15. What do cockroaches eat? Crumbs Grease Trash Cardboard glue Just about anything

  16. Sinks • Counters • Floors • Pet bowls • Shower stalls • Sweaty leaking pipes • Refrigerator drip pans and gaskets • AC units Where do cockroaches drink?

  17. Ants

  18. How did the ants get into your home? Plant boxes and open windows? Tree branches touching the house ? In something YOU brought into house Plants close to house

  19. Indoor or Outdoor Ant pavement ants, carpenter ants, acrobat ants, pharaoh ants, odorous house ants, fire ants, argentine ants etc. etc. Indoor Ant Outdoor Ant

  20. Where do ants live? Indoors Outdoors Open areas Shaded areas under pavement, stones, mulch, woodpiles, flower pots, and house siding • Spaces behind walls • Cabinets • Appliances • Behind window and door frames • Beneath floors and concrete slabs • Potted plants VERY MOBILE LOCATIONS

  21. Queen lays eggs • Adult workers take care of eggs, larvae and pupae • Adult workers have different jobs • Different species, different life length How do ants reproduce? http://askabiologist.asu.edu/individual-life-cycle

  22. What do ants eat? Just about anything depending on the species of ant Ants lay down invisible odor trails that lead other ants to food source

  23. Where do ants drink? • Sinks • Counters • Floors • Pet bowls • Shower stalls • Sweaty pipes • Refrigerator drip pans and gaskets • AC units

  24. Rodents

  25. Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is the potential result of exposure to hantavirus • Contact with hantavirus-infected rodents or their urine and droppings is how. • Rodent control in and around the home remains the primary strategy for preventing hantavirus infection. Hantavirus and Rodents

  26. Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings • Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings • Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently How the disease spreads

  27. How do you know you have a rodent problem? • Sightings • Noise • Gnaw marks • Nests • Rat burrows • Droppings • Holes and rub marks • Indicator pests

  28. How did the rodents get into your home? Plant boxes and open windows? Tree branches touching the house ? In something YOU brought into house Plants close to house

  29. What kind of rodent do I have? Mouse Rat

  30. Where do rodents live? Mouse Rat ROOF RAT generally high up: attics, rafters, crossbeams of buildings. Form runways along pipes and wires NORWAY RAT generally low down: in basements, on the ground floor, in sewers and subways, in burrows under buildings. • Nesting occurs where shelter and materials are available • Shredded paper, burlap, fabric, insulation, or other fibrous materials can form a nest • Nests resemble a woven mass, or “ball,” and they are usually 4 to 6 inches in diameter.

  31. Inches Rats • Need a hole the size of a quarter to enter • Are very smart, cautious, and afraid of new things • Need water every day

  32. Inches Mice • Mice need a hole the size of a dime to enter • Mice are curious • Don’t need to drink water daily

  33. How do the rodents reproduce? Mouse Rat Slower to reach reproductive maturity compare to mice – but >6 litters per year Will travel 450 feet from their burrow, but prefer to live close to food and water sources Usually live outside and come inside for food and water • Breed rapidly • A single pair can become an infestation quickly! • Take action when evidence of ONE mouse is seen or heard • Don’t travel far—just 30 feet from their nest

  34. What do rodents eat? http://flic.kr/p/bnSqR5 Food choice varies with species http://flic.kr/p/dBRNmu

  35. Where do rodents drink? • Sinks • Counters • Floors • Pet bowls • Shower stalls • Sweaty pipes • Refrigerator drip pans and gaskets • AC units

  36. A blood-sucking insect • Flat • Range in size from a sesame seed to a apple seed • Light brown to mahogany red depending when they last fed Bed bugs http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu/wisc/bedbugs4.html Bed bug slides adapted from NCHH IPM Multi-Family Housing

  37. Bed bugs do not transmit disease, but they are a pest of significant public health importance • Cause secondary infections after people scratch their bed bug bites • Result in stress, loss of work, loss of productivity, loss of sleep, and financial burden • Are unwelcome in our homes and workplaces Bed bugs: Staying Calm

  38. Most active at night – because humans are asleep • Hide in cracks and crevices, often in groups • Cannot fly, jump, or burrow into skin…they crawl • Hitchhike on coats, bags, furniture, wheelchairs… Bed bugs: How do they get into your home? http://flic.kr/p/8LNW5G http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu/wisc/bedbugs6.html

  39. They need a human blood meal! Bed bugs: How do they reproduce? Unfed Fed

  40. Identify Evaluate Infestation In the building In any crack or crevice where a credit card edge could fit In anything near where people rest Bed bugs: How to manage for them? • Bites • Fecal spots • Shed skins • Dead bed bugs • Live bed bugs

  41. Hitchhike on coats, bags, furniture, wheelchairs –inspect thoroughly anything you bring into the home • Be diligent when visiting other places – look for them • Contact a Pest Management Professional Bed bugs How to Manage for them http://flic.kr/p/78xL44

  42. What is Integrated Pest Management or IPM? http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/11/rats_the_mice_are_moving_in.html

  43. 1. Have you tried to keep them out by blocking entry into your home? 2. Have you kept food out of reach of the pest? 3. Have you been trying to trap the pest? 4. Have you been using pesticides? How are you managing or controlling the pests?

  44. Blocking Entry

  45. Minimize Access to Food & Water • No pets dishes left out overnight • No dirty dishes left in the sink • Fix leaky faucets • Keep counter tops cleaned off – wash with vinegar water to confuse ants

  46. Trap Monitoring

  47. Snap Traps Traps

  48. Bait with what they’re eating or using to nest Mice 1. Bait & set many traps 2. 6 traps for each mouse 3. Set immediately How to use baits to kill/trap rodents • Rats • Place many traps • Bait and leave UNSET until rats are readily feeding • Bait and set all traps

  49. The label is the law • All rodenticide labels require tamper-resistant stations • Read the label on both the station and the bait • The bait station should be secured, locked, and labeled • If the rodents areinside, considerusing traps Bait Traps for Rodents

  50. Pesticides

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