A pest is simply an animal whose interest in some way conflict the interest of man.A pest is anything or person which is destructive noxious or troublesome.
A pest can be divided in
six categories:
- Pest which cause physical damage like woodworm, moth, carpet beetles,mice and rats.
- Pest which contaminates food and the environment like cockroaches, flies, wasps mice and rats.
- Those which are comparatively harmless but repulsive to many people like spiders, silverfish.
- Those which attach food stores, flour beetles bacon beetles.
- Parasites which directly attack human being, bedbugs, fleas.
- Seasonal nuisances or casual intrudes from outside, ants, earwigs.
The objective of pest control is:
- To minimize number of pest.
- To minimize damage, inconvenience and distress they cause.
- To eliminate human disease they may transmit, many different actions contribute to pest control.
Many different actions contribute to pest control to eradicate it:
- We can design, construct and maintain building in such a way that pest can denied access and harborage.
- We can store foodstuff and dispose of waste in such a way as to deny foodstuff to pest.
- We can apply various chemical to kill the pest.
- We can and must educate people about the importance of their part in all these activities.
The foundation of successful pest control lies in a sound knowledge of habits, need and life history of the pest and it is only when this has been achieved that one can establish the best mean of combating the pest of question. Food is basic attraction for pest in the form of rat, mice insect. This problem can be divided into two main sections: 1> Rodent control 2>Insect control
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