#Pests Control

[great-and-small]

Apparently the local university’s undergraduate entomology course sends students to catch insect specimens at the same place I like to go birdwatching, which explains why I saw three enormous frat looking dudes with tiny bug nets and overheard one emphatically say “bro BRO I told you we already have enough lepidopterans”

[pestcontrolcompany01]

Achieve a Pest-Free Home with the Best Pest Control In Dubai: Choose SMG

When it comes to ensuring a pest-free environment, SMG offers the best pest control in Dubai. Our team of trained professionals employs advanced techniques and eco-friendly solutions to tackle a wide range of pest issues, from termites and rodents to cockroaches and bed bugs.

We understand that effective pest control is essential for both residential and commercial spaces. That’s why we customize our services to fit your specific needs, ensuring comprehensive inspections and tailored treatment plans. Our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction sets us apart from the competition.

At SMG, we prioritize safety and efficiency. Our products are safe for both humans and pets, allowing you to maintain a healthy living or working environment while effectively managing pest problems. With our proactive approach, we don’t just eliminate pests; we also focus on preventing future infestations.

If you’re searching for the best pest control in Dubai, look no further. Contact us today to schedule an inspection or learn more about our services. Let SMG help you reclaim your space and ensure it remains pest-free all year round.

[wintergrofyuri]

catgirl dogboy friendship is something that can be so personal

[moshieldnorthwestdallas]

Mosquito Shield of Northwest Dallas

Don’t let mosquitoes ruin your breath of fresh air.

Keep Mosquito-Borne Diseases Away With Mosquito Control Services

Mosquitoes are seen as an annoyance, but over the past decade, we have seen how important it is to prevent the harmful effects caused by their bites through mosquito control services. Mosquitoes carry diseases that pose serious health threats to your family and your pets. Drawing on our years of experience, the experts at Mosquito Shield® are happy to discuss a management strategy for preventing these pests from causing chaos at your home and in your yard.

Mosquito Control Strategy and Management That Gets to the Root of the Problem

Our vector trained mosquito control technicians do more than simply exterminate existing

swarms of mosquitoes. Our technicians will assess your yard and property, and then follow a three-pronged approach that will ensure your continued comfort throughout the season. The backyard mosquito control program includes eliminating and repelling the existing mosquitoes, masking the presence of CO2, and then spraying a repellent barrier.

To exterminate the existing mosquitoes lingering around your property, our technicians apply a mosquito control barrier in the form of a wax-based water repellent spray that clings to the structures and organic matter around your yard. In order to keep future swarms from forming, our repellent treatment masks carbon dioxide levels to make your property less appealing to mosquitoes as they are drawn to the CO2 that humans exhale. Finally, a vertical barrier is applied which strengthens with each mosquito control service visit. You and your family can enjoy all the fun and activities that good weather allows, without the nuisance of buzzing flying pests.

Results happen quickly! We make the whole process of backyard mosquito control easy, from start to finish, so you can enjoy the simple joy of relaxing in your yard again. Whether it’s outdoor mosquito control for your home or your business, get started by contacting us today! Learn more about our commercial and municipal mosquito control services.

What makes Mosquito Shield and Tick Shield so much better?

PROVEN: 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

20 Years and over 1 million applications have helped us re­new our FlexBlendTM formula that lasts longer, holds up against weather, and grows in strength as the season progresses. Plus, our techniques allow your family and pets to return to the yard quickly after service!

EFFECTIVE: A DIFFERENT APPROACH

We are the only mosquito & tick control service with the Tailored Treatment System that responds to weather-related breakouts and seasonal peaks in mosquito & tick populations - no preset number of treatments means more attention to your property!

AFFORDABLE: UNCONDITIONAL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

If you’re not fully satisfi­ed after your ­first visit, we’ll refund 100% of your money.

We Attack at the Root of the Problem

Our unique approach to mosquito control is proven effective and  noticeable results occur quickly.

✆ (214) 775-0622

[moshieldwichitafalls]

Mosquito Shield of Wichita Falls

Proven. Effective. Affordable.

Experience Mosquito Control A Better Way

Proven Over 20 years of scientific discoveries and field testing Effective See a difference in as little as 48 hours Affordable Lower cost, no contracts, 100% satisfaction guarantee

How Mosquito Control Works

You may have heard about “spraying” for mosquitoes, but our season-long mosquito control approach produces the best results in the industry. You can’t control mosquitoes with a set number of sprays. Our powerful combination of monitoring local weather and mosquito population, allows us to adjust servicing your yard as needed. You’ll get more sprays and better results with location based mosquito control services near you.

What in Mosquito Mosquito Shield Spray and How Does It Work?

Mosquito Shield® is a professionally applied mosquito spray that kills and repels mosquitoes and ticks. Our vector-trained technicians treat your common use areas such as pools, decks, patios, and swing sets.  They also pay special attention to where mosquitoes and ticks breed and congregate. This helps with mosquito control as well as tick control and prevention.

Our three-pronged approach kills mosquitoes, masks your CO2 (which attracts mosquitoes), and repels them away from your property.  The spray adheres to foliage, wood, stone/brick, and other organic materials. This creates a vertical barrier that strengthens with each visit.

Only Mosquito Shield® uses FlexBlend spray technology to maximize effectiveness. We monitor both mosquito population and weather conditions and adjust our location based program as needed. By rotating control products, leveraging proactive scheduling, and using resistance management strategies, we are able to deliver superior results and satisfaction.

We Attack at the Root of the Problem

Our unique approach to mosquito control is proven effective and  noticeable results occur quickly.

Contact Us

✆ (940) 249-5254

[thehmn]

Advice nobody ever asks for but every time I tell someone they find it extremely useful:

If you want to get rid of ants in your house mix a cup of icing sugar and a cup of potato starch 50/50 (dry, no water) and spread it near the holes where the ants get into your house. They won’t be able to separate the sugar and starch and will feed their larvae with the mixture. The starch will kill the larvae. So you won’t see results right away but if you keep it up you’ll get rid of them over a few weeks. I make a batch every summer to combat ants in my kitchen.

Because the mixture is non-toxic to humans and other mammals it’s perfect if you have children or pets. God knows my dogs eat anything on the floor and this way my only worry is they might get cavities if they get into my pest control powder.

[iclick-blogs]

Long Last Termites Control Services Singapore 2022

Subterranean termite control services in Singapore – Do you have termites infestation at your home or office and you are at a loss as to what to do next? Or perhaps you are still relying on your pest control guys to help you but you know that they are using outdated methods to solve your termites control issues? Do you really trust your regular pest control guys when they are only using their eyes to check and you have to either buy their word or not? Do you know what your pest control guys are really checking? Are your termite control guys checking and hearing for hollow sound from the knocking on your wooden doors? We’re sure you have a thousand and 1 questions when it comes to your termite control issues.

When it comes to effective termite control Singapore, there are many solutions and different costing guide coming from different pest control companies in Singapore. We will work hand-in-hand with you to provide you with the most effective and affordable termite control solutions.

We use technology to solve your top issue of termite control in Singapore. It is the main part of home improvement and we are in the industry from long period. It is easy to revamp at the beginning stage of termite infest. Things become more critical once it starts damaging your wooden frames, doors, windows and furniture of your property.

Once a Week Inspection

We will conduct 1 inspection to your home/premise every week. Spot treatment on the infested area will be conducted after 1 week, we will go back to your premise and conduct checks again. With that, we can know what would be the next appropriate treatment needed. For landed property owners, we also recommend to do an inspection with any top brand in Singapore termites control once every 6 months for peace of mind. When you spend $3million dollars on your property, you will want to ensure that your house is secured and free from termites!

What happens after your construction is done?

Many of our landed house owners engage us for pests control or termite control services before the construction is completed. We will work with your contractor to ensure that appropriate work is done. For post construction services, we will do eco-friendly termite control Singapore services at the soil/ground of your house so that we prevent infestations even before it occurs! Many house owners do not do this step as they feel it is not necessary to do pest control when there are no pests! However, many of them actually regretted their decision. Prevention is always better than cure!

What happens after your construction is done?

Many of our landed house owners engage us for pests control or termite control services before the construction is completed. We will work with your contractor to ensure that appropriate work is done. For post construction services, we will do eco-friendly termite control Singapore services at the soil/ground of your house so that we prevent infestations even before it occurs! Many house owners do not do this step as they feel it is not necessary to do pest control when there are no pests! However, many of them actually regretted their decision. Prevention is always better than cure!

Are there termites on the roof of my house?

Yes, there is! Do you know that pests such as termites, wood worms or even bird pests can infest your roof?!

Many house owners do not know but the roof beams are generally always built on wood. This part of the house is always neglected because “out of sight, out of mind”. That’s where we can come in to help!

Let us protect your roof by doing termites control services termites and all other insects or pests! After the initial job is also, we also provide maintenance service to do periodic inspections of your roof and house to ensure that you and your family live in a pest-free environment.

[creative-chaos-apparently]

I made a little friend last night

[twinsimming]

Pest Control by Twinsimming 🐞

Sims with dirty homes now run the risk of roaches spawning around their lot, similar to The Sims 2.

This is a script mod that can be placed in your Packages folder. It was built and tested on 1.69 but should work fine on 1.67.

Roaches

Once a day the number of dirty objects on your sim's home lot will be counted, and if the Dirty Threshold is met or exceeded, roaches have a chance of spawning.

There are three thresholds: Dirty, Filthy, and Vile. The dirtier the lot is, the more likely roaches are to spawn and in greater numbers.

Dirty Threshold = 5 dirty objects, 10% spawn chance (2 to 4 roach spawners)

Filthy Threshold = 10 dirty objects, 20% spawn chance (4 to 6 roach spawners)

Vile Threshold = 15 dirty objects, 30% spawn chance (6 to 8 roach spawners)

All sims in the active household will get the new Vermin custom moodlet that lasts 12 hours and subtracts -15, -20, or -25 points from your sim's mood depending on the threshold the lot meets.

Roaches spawning also carries a 10% chance of a sim getting sick (like TS2).

New Moodlet

Vermin: Given when roaches spawn on a sim’s home lot, lasts 12 hours, -15. -20, or -25 mood (inspired by TS2 memory)

Tuning

All of the tunable values can be found on the mod download page under the header “Tuning”.

Conflicts & Known Issues

Depending on the terrain paint, roaches may be harder to see. To find any roach spawners you may have missed:

Enter build/buy mode.

Enable buydebug cheat.

Look for any white boxes on your lot. Those are the roach spawners.

Enter live mode.

Stomp on the roaches.

Success!

This is a new script mod so there shouldn’t be any conflicts.

Credits

EA/Maxis for The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, Visual Studio 2019, ILSpy, s3pe, Notepad++, Gimp, and Script Mod Template Creator.

Thank You

Thank you to @monocodoll for helping with a scripting issue!

If you like my work, please consider tipping me on Ko-fi 💙

Download @ ModTheSims

[great-and-small]

christians annoying as fuck. you know bugs don't have thoughts or feeling right

Quite a few strange assumptions here all jumbled in at once

1. That I am christian?

2. That christians are morally opposed to killing insects?

3. That someone would only be opposed to eliminating an entire species because they think it will make bugs sad?

4. That animals only deserve to exist if they think or feel as we do? Fuck all the coral I guess.

5. That we can even know for certain that invertebrates do not think or feel?

This is inferior hate mail with a weak and lazy thesis. I suspect your mind is much sharper than you have presented it here.

[proteusolm]

It's a shame how many people consider themselves animal lovers but hate any wild animal they personally interact with. I'm talking folks who love the idea of far away animals, pretty pictures of tigers and whales, but any creature they may actually see in their day to day life is viewed only ever as a problem. I can't think of one species of urban wildlife that isn't seen as a pest more often than not. The wolf is beloved to the person who will never see one in nature, but the coyote is a dirty varmint. These two animals are far, far more similar to one another than they are different. One just dares to exist near us.

[wolveryene]

His name suits him ngl.

[itz-spirit]

Another set of doodels

REGRETEVATOR

[iclick-blogs]

Pest Control Singapore -  https://www.ipest.sg

[bestanimal]

Round 2 - Arthropoda - Arachnida

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Arachnida is a highly diverse class, ranging from the Demodex mites living on you (yes, you) right now, to the Triassic-surviving horseshoe crabs (yes, a 2019 genetics-based analysis places them within Arachnida, though this is still debated), to your friendly pest-controlling house spider. They live worldwide, mainly on land, but some also in freshwater and marine environments. There are over 110,000 named species, with more being discovered every year. They comprise the Ricinulei (“Hooded Tickspiders”), Xiphosura (“Horseshoe Crabs”), Opiliones (“Harvestmen”), Solifugae (“Camel Spiders”), Acariformes (“Acariform Mites”), Parasitiformes (“Parasitiform Mites and Ticks”), Palpigradi (“Microwhip Scorpions”), Pseudoscorpiones (“Book Scorpions”), Scorpiones (“Scorpions”), Amblypygi (“Tailless Whip Scorpions”), Schizomida (“Short-tailed Whip Scorpions”), Uropygi (“Vinegaroons”), and Araneae (“Spiders”).

Adult arachnids have 8 legs attached to a head/thorax segment called the cephalothorax. Their abdomen contains their heart and respiratory organs. Arachnids also have two other pairs of appendages that vary in function between orders. The chelicerae are mainly used in feeding and defense. In spiders, they are used to deliver venom. The second pair, called pedipalps, are used for feeding, locomotion, defense, and/or reproduction. Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions, Ricinuleids, and Horseshoe Crabs have pedipalps that end in a pair of pinchers used for defense and manipulating food. Pseudoscorpions also have a venom gland in their pinchers which they use to immobilize prey. Vinegaroons, Schizomids, Amblypygids, and most Harvestmen have raptorial pedipalps that are used for capturing prey. Solifugids use their palps as another set of legs, and spiders use theirs like hands, while the males also use theirs for mating. Mites and ticks use their palps to sense their surroundings. Mites are more diverse than other arachnids, some only having 6 or even 4 legs. Adult females of Podapolipidae only have a single pair of legs. Some arachnids have a tail-like structure called a telson. Horseshoe Crabs use their telson to flip themselves over if they are turned on their backs. Scorpions use their telson as a stinger to deliver venom, while Palpigrades, Schizomids, and Vinegaroons use theirs as sensory structures. Schizomids and Vinegaroons can also produce acetic acid at the base of their telsons, which they use as a chemical defense sprayed at attackers. Instead of a telson, spiders have spinnerets on their abdomen which they use to create silk. Some have no eyes; some have up to six. Some only have very simple eyes which detect light and shadow, while others have very advanced eyesight.

Arachnids are so diverse that it would be impossible for me to provide a general summary of their behavior here. Some lay eggs, some bear live young. Some have intensive courtship rituals. In most, mothers provide parental care, but in some this falls on the fathers. They can be predators, scavengers, carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, parasites, and everything in between.

Arachnids are one of the oldest living Classes of land animals. Xiphosurans first appeared in the Late Ordovician, with modern horseshoe crabs appearing in the Carboniferous and becoming more common in the Triassic. The spider-like Order Uraraneida first appeared in the Permian, with true spiders appearing in the Carboniferous. There’s a lot of talk about how horseshoe crabs predate the dinosaurs, and that’s true, but so do other arachnids… and most other arthropods as well!

Propaganda under the cut:

While only Spiders, Scorpions, and Pseudoscorpions have venom, they all have different methods of injecting it, meaning they likely independently evolved venom. Which is wild to me.

Spiders tend to get a bad rap (mostly due to western media banking on arachnophobia and spreading misinformation) but they are incredibly beneficial to humans, eating many of the species we consider pests. Some crops, such as cranberries, tomatoes, and potatoes, rely on spiders for pest control. It has been found that wherever farmers release spiders, their crop yields increase, while also cutting down on the use of chemical pesticides by 80%.

There are around 50,000 species of spider and all but one family (Uloboridae) is venomous. However, this venom is mainly used to capture prey, and only 10 genera have venom considered medically significant to humans. Bites are rarer than the media would have you think, and deaths are even more rare, as they are usually a result of secondary infections, allergic reaction, or pre-existing conditions. You are more likely to die from a mosquito bite.

Even if they weren’t super important and helpful to humans, spiders are still just small animals living their lives and are all too often unfairly demonized. I’ll get off my soapbox now but listen… I’m Love Them. They are just little guys.

Anyway, Ricinuleids have a hood, called a cucullus, which can be raised or lowered over their head. This hood is also where females will carry their eggs until they hatch. Baby hoodie.

Horseshoe Crab blood is blue due to a copper-based respiratory pigment called hemocyanin. It is often harvested for its unique reactions to bacterial contamination and is thus used in FDA testing. Horseshoe Crab blood has saved millions of human lives, however, overharvesting for their blood as well as for fishing bait has put their populations into decline, which has in turn affected populations of shorebirds which depend on their eggs as migratory fuel. Many areas have enacted regulations on harvesting and established captive breeding programs.

Harvestmen are sometimes referred to as spiders, but they are actually closer related to scorpions!

Harvestmen are unique among arachnids for their high diversity of feeding behavior. Many species are omnivorous, eating small insects, fungi, and plants. Some species are scavengers. Some species feed on fecal matter! Unlike most other arachnids, they do not have sucking mouthparts, and instead chew their food with tiny pinching jaws.

Many arachnids, especially most scorpions, are biofluorescent, glowing under UV light. There are many hypotheses for why this is, but it may allow them to detect the presence of UV light themselves, letting them know when there is a full moon vs a new moon.

Scorpions can also detect light through sensors in their tail!

Scorpion claws and tails are reinforced with iron and nickel

Mites are incredibly diverse and live everywhere. Many live in the soil and aid in decomposing, some live in water, some live on plants, some live in plants and create galls, some eat fungi, some eat lichen, some eat carrion, some are predators, some are parasites. Almost every species on land (mammals, reptiles, ants, plants, etc) has at least one mite species associated with it.

Vinegaroon courtship rituals involve a dance that can last up to 12 hours of the female testing the male’s endurance. Female vinegaroons invest a lot into their children, often starving themselves in the process, so they must be absolutely certain the male has good fitness.