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Is pest control necessary?

 

Every once in awhile somebody hits me with this statement, I can answer it with just a few short words:

Scorpions

Ticks

and those other occasional pest like mosquitoes, flies and roaches….

 

The statistics are there if you want them. But as I have mentioned often, bugs have killed way more of us than anything else. As I have said numerous times you don’t always have to use pesticides. There are those that would say you never ever should use pesticides. There are times and a place for the use and sometimes it is just cost effective to do it plain and simple. IPM or Integrated Pest Management is the best way – it just makes you think about it in a way that makes complete sense. Use what you have by ways of home-sealing, door sweeps etc and if you must, then use some pesticide. (Always read and follow Labels, SDS and labeling use directions).

Recently the ticks have become unbelievable – sometimes just 100’s in a home. Just a few weeks ago Flagstaff had some issues at a camp –  “Tick-borne disease temporally closes Flagstaff’s Camp Colton“. Maybe they should consider Tick Boxes TCS

I know there are those that think some type of oil will kill everything, they just don’t last and seldom work as a true pesticide does. But again I realize that not everyone will agree but do you have some opinions or facts I’m not aware of?

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It’s not always about the Bed Bugs, how about visiting Arizona? Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater

A lot of stories back and forth on whether a meteor annihilated the dinosaurs  but this is a fun day to see what happens when something hits the Earth. Can you just imagine if you were here when this baby hit just north of Phoenix and east of Flagstaff? Meteor Crater Visitor Center is located off I-40 at exit 233, Meteor Crater Road, then 6 miles south on the paved road. 35 miles east of Flagstaff, 20 miles west of Winslow, in Arizona, USA

I love history and just learning, they have a small meteorite inside that you can touch, way cool.

If you spend some time looking around the site, you can spot all sorts of bugs, lizards and more. Be careful so you don’t accidentally fall in, its deep.

USGS photo

USGS photo

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