Residential Pest Exterminator Services Phoenix Company for Stink Bug Control
by Adam Tork Digital MarketerStink bug control can be a
daunting challenge. It is a lot more complex than what meets the eye. The
reason for this is based on a number of factors based on a recent residential pest exterminator
services in Phoenix AZ data:
1) Stink bugs are not
indigenous to the North American continent. Hence, whatever data we have on
their characteristics and behavior in this habitat is based on a mere 2 decades
worth of data. Beyond that, we must seek to understand what makes this
particular species of insect tick, within its native habitat of southeastern
Asia.
2) Stink bugs have no known
predators in the food chain that would attack and feed off of them. Hence, as a
result, the United States has witnessed an explosive population growth in terms
of the sheer number of stink bugs that being born and are thriving each and
every year.
So if live, adult stink bugs
are not being hunted, then there is means whereby nature is keeping their
population in check. (This applies to adult bugs only, as it has been observed
that certain species of wasps will actually feed off of their unborn eggs.)
3) Stink bugs are known for
their trademark characteristic of emanating a pungent odor as a self-defensive
mechanism whenever they are attacked or threatened. This makes the task of
killing stink bugs to be anything but trivial. Why is this?
● For
one, the odor is remarkably pungent enough so as to drive away and repulse most
people and most members of the animal and insect kingdoms.
● And
secondly, this foul stench that they give off is no subtle odor. It can be
extremely overpowering, especially when multiple stink bugs are being threatened
at once, and are all giving off that odor in unison.
● This
odor can penetrate your skin, on your clothes, on the walls, on fabric, on
furniture, and whatnot. And this odor is by no means easy to remove. It
requires a great deal of deliberate scrubbing with plentiful soap in order to
get rid of that smell completely.
Therefore, the methods of stink
bug control, in many circumstances, can differ from that of how you might deal
with the problem of some other typical household insect infestation, be it
roaches, ants, or what have you.
In isolated cases, it might be
possible to sneak up on a stink bug and then attempt to scoop it up with a
paper towel.
But, more often than not, the
stench can permeate through the paper towel and get onto the skin of your
fingers.
Therefore, you will want to try
some other approach. And by other approach, we mean to say that your methods
for stink bug control might end up having to involve using stealth as a means
to achieve your goal.
Some examples of how you can
kill stink bugs or at the very least get rid of them safely, using methods of
stealth include:
1. Using a bagless hand-held
vacuum cleaner. Simply sneak up behind the bug (or in front of it, for that
matter), and push the button to activate the vacuum.
The bug will be sucked into the
debris chamber instantly. Will this bug still give off its odor?
It sure will. But at least the
odor will be confined to the innards of the vacuum debris chamber and will not
be exposed to the outside world.
2. Setting up a trap with bait.
There are many different variations on traps you can set up for these bugs.
First of all, you can use different types of bait in order to lure and attract
them toward the trap.
For example, armed with a
little bit of knowledge, you might have learned that stink bugs are pure
vegetarians. They feed off of the juices found within various fruits and
vegetables, such as apples, and pairs, etc. So if you could lay out a piece of
fruit as bait, you can then set a trap that engulfs the bug when it comes to
feeding off of it.
Or, you can set up a light trap
that zaps the bug when it approaches it.
That, or you can set up a trap
that involves adhesive flypaper and other bugs that are already stuck to it.
Entomologists have observed that this particular species of insect gives off
what is known as an aggregation pheromone, whose purpose is to attract other
bugs of the same species to come and congregate with it.
So if you have one stink bug
stuck to a piece of flypaper, then it may be able to attract others toward the
same location, and consequently also get stuck on the paper as well.
You can also use common
household dish-washing liquid that comes in a spray bottle. Indeed, it has
become widely accepted that dishwashing liquid is harmful, if not lethal, to
these bugs.
Simply spray this in generous
quantities onto their belly, and watch it writhe frantically in pain until it
succumbs to paralysis and eventually to death.
You can also rely on
commercially available pesticide sprays. But this would have to be purely a
measure of last resort, which would only be used in the most extremely
challenging of circumstances.
If you suffer from a severe
stink bug infestation, and you need to exterminate them en masse, then
residential pest exterminator services might be the best option for you.
This also applies to farms and
gardens. If you are a farmer and you run the risk of losing your crops to stink
bugs, then a pesticide solution may be the answer.
Also in the case of farms and
gardens, wherever feasible, you should consider putting an insect-proof net
over your crops. Or house as much of your crops within a greenhouse as
possible, in which there are no other known insects.
It should be an immaculate
environment, where these bugs are not already present, have not already been
there before, and which would not be likely to attract any more additional
bugs.
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