ProBest Pest Management is a pest control company and a U.S. Contract Post Office and even I didn’t exactly have an answer when I read this. “Here’s why you can mail scorpions but not spiders”
Based on these pictures I would have to say – YES!
If your dealing with scorpions or crickets, you can see how they get in. So what do you do about it, seal it. Or pay somebody else to do it, by the way do it in the winter when its cooler. We use clear caulking, it goes on white and dries clear. It is very difficult because you are only working in an area of maybe 4 inches, don’t seal the round holes as they allow the house to breath and let water escape.
Even small Smith’s Black Headed Snakes might be able to get in….
- Reduce the food source – if you take away their food, they will die.
- Black light and reduce their numbers.
Photo by David H.
Reduce their food supply and harborage areas by performing monthly pest control.
If you spend the time to reduce their numbers, you will keep their numbers in check.
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It appears that after therapy who can take a nap and wake up less afraid of whatever. “Afraid of Spiders? Try sleeping on it.” I may need something like this, I really don’t like spiders, at all.
This technique is usually very effective – and extremely speedy, with often just a few short sessions needed to see off the phobia. But it doesn’t work perfectly for everyone. The answer for this minority of phobia patients, it seems, may be surprisingly simple: schedule a nap immediately after the therapy session.
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The bite from a black widow spider is not automatically fatal, in fact, less than 1% of all people bitten by this spider run the risk of dying, and most of them are saved with the use of antivenin.
A house fly lives for only 14 days.
Tarantulas can live 30 years.
Scorpions can live for more than a year without eating.
Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth’s food crop.
Drum roll please, my Top 4 pests that I run into daily are:
- Scorpions
- Crickets
- Cockroaches
- Termites
I get calls daily about scorpions and they are by far the most difficult to deal with, reduce their food source helps and getting rid of any harborages also help to make them move somewhere else. Crickets are just about everywhere and provide scorpions with all the food they need in my opinion. Its also amazing but I can spot termite tubes from the street and often spend hours putting cards on people’s doors to give them a heads up on termite activity.
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Should you discontinue service if you don’t see bugs?
The one thing I can assure you, is that bugs can hide extremely well. They can hide in the smallest of cracks, under rocks, or just about any nook or cranny. Just because you don’t see them, they are there. The more harborage areas, that’s where they hang out during the heat of the day or the cold of night equals the possibility of hiding bugs.
So lets say you have crickets, well scorpions just love crickets so by continuing to eradicate the crickets means that the scorpions won’t have any food. The less food = less other predators. Less hiding areas = less predators.
So by continuing with a pest management plan = less bugs in general and the probability that you will continue to have less predators in place as well. The other issue in the southwest is the lack of real cold, enough to freeze or kill the bugs. This year as in the past year we haven’t had a real cold to kill off the bugs and that is going to mean bugs… and lots of them.
So I would keep the pest control going, less bugs = less bugs in your homes.
What are some ways to discourage insects trying to enter your home?
One of the things that Pest Management Professionals try to utilize are IPM or Integrated Pest Management techniques. These basic ideas include using non-chemical methods to reduce the bug population around your home.
- This can be as simple as removing firewood from close to your home to maybe next to a block wall and making sure its not directly on the ground.
- Trimming trees to prevent ants and other crawling pests from just walking right on it.
- Using yellow lighting or sodium vapor lights on structures or businesses will help to reduce flying insects.
- Keeping stone or dirt away from the stucco of your home so you can clearly see the foundation.
- Sealing up any cracks and crevices where bugs love to hide, this may include those block wall bump-outs.
- Keep trash cans away from doors where people come and go often.
- Check your property often and stay ahead of the insects.
If you store lots of firewood a device like this can keep it off the ground and you can always cover it with a tarp.
How to get ready for the Spring bug season?
- The more feeder bugs could equal more scorpions or spiders on your property and eventually inside your home, pest control is important.
- Check your home for cracks and crevices where bugs and rodents try to get in.
- Don’t store stuff around the foundation of your home.
- If you do have firewood, store it on something and away from the house.
- Check your storage areas for pests.
- Don’t over water things, to much water may kill plants and encourage more bug activity.
As always if you become overwhelmed don’t let it go and hope for the best. Call a Pest Management Professional who can either give you advice or give you a hand. A great site for information on seeking a Professional is http://www.pestworld.org
