The cockroach’s cryptic nature, which include being most active at night, the ability to scurry away from danger and suddenly disappear on ledges, and to survive on anything available for them to feed on, contributed much to their importance as pests of both residential kitchens and commercial establishments. People often find it difficult to imagine where cockroaches go when they are out of sight. Voids and hollow spaces in and behind kitchen appliances would quickly come to mind. But do you know that the extra often unused and…
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Where cockroaches hide
Friday, August 17th, 2012 at
2:10 am
What’s the similarity between a cockroach and a gecko?
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 at
9:28 am
Your answer might be that both cockroach and gecko give some people the creeps. That’s why such people might lump these two animals as “pests“. Can you name another similarity? It has to do with their ability to disappear under ledges. Despite the fact that one is an arthropod (with exoskeleton) and the other one a vertebrate (with endoskeleton), both of these animals play their disappearing trick in a strangely similar way. The secret has been uncovered. Watch this video and pay particular attention to the hind legs…
How to Start the New Year Free of Pests
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 at
8:00 am
Pests could be furthest from your minds during the holidays, but they cannot be ignored any further. If you want the new year to be pest-free, rid of the following to prevent pest problems: 1. Used gift wrappers, boxes, and other packaging materials. Christmas is the time for giving and receiving gifts, and also for shopping. After the holidays is the time to remove materials accumulated in the basement, closet, and other storage spaces in the house that are meant to be discarded. Cardboard, boxes, cloth, paper and…
Pest Control Services: in high demand in the Philippines, Worldwide
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at
4:15 am
It’s no surprise nowadays to find local and international headlines that says “pest control companies are making a killing.” In the Philippines as it is elsewhere, the need for professional pest control services continue to increase every year. Two important factors that have contributed to this worldwide trend are: Urban centers continue to grow in number and size. As human populations become more and more concentrated in cities and megacities, pests like rats, mice, bedbugs, termites, mosquitoes, house flies and cockroaches that thrive well in human dwellings will…
Pest Control Professionals just wanna have fun
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at
12:06 am
This time it’s not the termites, cockroaches, mosquitoes, rats and other pests in your homes, offices and commercial buildings that they are worrying about, pest control professionals just want to have some fun during this opening ceremonies of the 2012 Bio-Tech Olympics held at Munting Buhangin, Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines about a month ago to kick off the summer and practice the 7th Habit of “sharpening the saw.” Below is the video of the first night, which highlights the ceremonial torch lighting and the Search for the Mutya ng…