Integrated Pest Management in Multifamily Housing

1. Integrated Pest Management in Multifamily Housing

2. Beware of this Bug!!!

3. Background • 1980’s bug crew • 1990’s contractors and gels • 2000 Listening Tour • 2001 – 2005 Healthy PH initiative • 2006 - 2009 Healthy Pest-Free Hsg • 2010 – Environmental Exposure and IPM Intensity

4. Developed and sponsored by

6. Resources • Networked resources are available at: • www.StopPests.org • www.healthyhomestraining.org/ipm/training.htm • The binder is yours to keep • Copies of presentation slides • HUD’s Voluntary Guidance on IPM • Pest fact sheets

7. By the end of today, you will know • Why pests are health threats. • How to control cockroaches, rodents, and bed bugs. • Why Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is the most effective way to control pests. • Your role in the IPM team.

8. How have you fought pests?

9. Pests cause problems • Trigger/cause asthma and allergies • Bite • Contaminate food • Lead people to overreact and ignore pesticide labels • Transmit disease • Hitchhike in belongings • Violate housing codes IPM makes homes healthier!

10. Priority pests • Cockroaches cause asthma in infants, trigger asthma attacks, and contaminate food. • Rodents such as mice and rats carry diseases, bite, destroy property, may cause fires, and may trigger asthma attacks. • Bed Bugs and their bites are a nuisance and are expensive to eliminate.

11. Food Shelter Water What all pests need • Food • Water • Shelter

12. What is IPM? • Integrated: Uses multiple approaches that work together. • Pest: What the multiple approaches work to fight. • Management: Use of the most economical means with the least possible risk to people, property, and the environment.

13. What you will gain IPM will give you… • A healthier building: Fewer asthma attacks, less exposure to pesticides, and less of a chance you will take pests home. • Fewer complaints: A Boston Housing Authority development reduced cockroach work orders by 68% after one year of IPM. • Fewer pests: You can stop infestations from growing and spreading disease.

14. Bed Bugs

15. Outline • What they are • What they eat • Where they live • How to think like bed bug • Prevention and control Also known as… chintzes or chinches mahogany flats red coats crimson ramblers wall lice the bug that nobody knows

16. What is a bed bug? • A blood-sucking insect • Most active at night • Usually feeds at night Adult bed bug feeding on a human

17. Bed bugs are health hazards Bed bugs do not transmit disease, but they • cause secondary infections after people scratch their bed bug bites; • result in stress, loss of work, loss of sleep, and financial burden; • are unwelcome in our homes and workplaces.

18. Bed bug life cycle Unfed Fed Bed bugs at various stages of growth.

19. Bed bug behavior • Hide in cracks and crevices, often in groups. • Cannot fly, jump, or burrow into skin…they crawl. • Hitchhike on bags, furniture, wires, or pipes. Bed bug crawling into a screw hole to hide.

20. Mosquito Bites Can be confused with… • Ticks • Cockroach nymphs • Other kinds of bug bites Tick Cockroach Nymph Bat Bug

21. One bed bug, HALF a year…

22. Signs of bed bugs • Bites • Blood spots • Shed skins • Dead bed bugs • Live bed bugs

23. Bites • Bed bugs cannot be confirmed by bites alone. • Live bed bugs must be found.

24. Blood spots • Blood spots are bed bug droppings. • Bed bugs cannot be confirmed by blood spots alone. • Live bed bugs must be found. The start of an infestation A bad infestation

25. Shed skins Bed bug signs on a mattress seam

26. Dead bed bugs Bottom Top

27. What bed bugs eat and drink Blood

28. Where bed bugs live • In the building • In any crack or crevice where a credit card edge could fit • In anything near where people rest

29. = Hot Spot Where bed bugs live Beds, sofas, bedside tables, recliners, picture frames…

30. What’s on the other side of the wall? How do bed bugs spread? • Through walls along wires and pipes • On anything coming from an infested unit (furniture, backpacks, laundry…)

31. Think like a bed bug • After mating once and feeding, a female is ready to lay eggs. • To avoid dying, a female may go off and find a hiding spot awayfrom other bed bugs. Traumatic insemination (bed bugs breeding)

32. Got bed bugs? Now what? If found and controlled early in the infestation, the spread of bed bugs can be stopped. The first responses should be to: Report the problem Not throw the mattress out—cover it Not spray—leave this to the PMP Prevent carrying the bed bugs to other places Prepare the unit for the PMP

33. Document all observations Take action promptly. Report: • Date • What you saw • What you did (don’t spray)

34. Use a mattress encasement Trap live bed bugs inside. Zip, seal, and check for rips. Leave it on for 1-1/2 years (don’t let it rip). Mattresses and furniture don’t have to be thrown out!

35. Place monitors • Trap and kill bed bugs • Determine how bad the infestation is • Two types • Interceptors • Portable Interceptor

36. Teach people how to control without pesticides • Follow site-specific instructions from the PMP • If there is an infested item, the PMP may have the resident: • Encase • Destroy, dispose, and replace with metal or plastic • Heat treat in a dryer • Heat treat then isolate in bags or containers

37. Teach people how to prevent • Keep coats, backpacks, purses, and bags off beds, recliners, and sofas. • Don’t bring home used furniture. • Look for signs before sleeping.

38. The PMP might Inspect Take apart furniture Put infested items in sealed plastic bags or discard heavily infested items Use A vacuum Heat or steam Pesticides

39. Only PMPs use sprays Sprays are not effective when used by homeowners for bed bug control Sprays cause the bugs to scatter Problem becomes harder to deal with

40. A review of what you should do Report the problem Encase the mattress and box spring Prevent spreading the bed bugs to other places Follow the PMP's instructions

41. Management's role • Find out the PMP’s requirements for unit prep and plan ahead! Example: Who takes apart and reassembles furniture? • Have the professional inspect and treat units adjacent to the infested one. • Communicate the situations/populations in units to the professional (respiratory problems, chemical sensitivities, pregnant women, the elderly, or children present).

42. The PMP's role • ALWAYS thoroughly inspects the unit and the adjacent walls. • Provides preparation and follow-up instructions in multiple languages. • Follows the label—especially when treating mattresses! • Returns in three weeks to look for and treat hatched nymphs.

43. The resident's role • Inspect regularly • Launder bedding regularly • Report bed bug sightings immediately and seek help from staff • Use plastic bags when transporting infested items • Don’t bring home furniture found on the street • Follow preparation instructions from the PMP

44. Questions?

45. Cockroaches

46. What they are What they eat Where they live How to think like a cockroach Prevention and control Outline Also known as… roaches cucarachas

47. Cockroaches are health hazards Cockroaches and their frass Make asthma worse in sensitive people Cause asthma in preschool-aged children Cause or aggravate allergies Contaminate food, dishes, and counters Are unwelcome in places where we work and play

48. What is a cockroach? An insect Lives in areas where humans provide food and water Active at night If you see cockroaches during the day, the infestation is serious

49. What is a cockroach? • Multiple eggs in each egg case • Many eggs means many nymphs (babies) • Nymphs look like small versions of the adults

50. Common cockroaches hot cool high & dry • most common sewers & basements