Ecommon Pest Solutions

Termites

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Termites

Termites practice caste system. Queen - egg-laying; King, mating; Soldier, defend the colony; Workers, to maintain the nest and feed other colony members; Alates, swarming to mate and start a new colony. Nest is usually 7m – 10m underground. It construct mud tubes to avoid desiccation and can extend tunnels 10-100s ft. to reach feeding sites. It feed on cellulose (wood). Enter into building through cracks or pipeline.

Drywood Termites

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Drywood Termites

Drywood Termites are social insects able to survive in low moisture. Pellets are visible near the infested area. King and Queen – are the reproductive; Soldiers - guard the colony. There is no Worker caste. The work is performed by Immature before it become adults. Alates fly out, paired and fly into small hole in dry wood (wood frame) and start to form a colony.

Rats

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Rats

Rats in Malaysia: Norway rats – sewer/street rat, nest at rubbish dump areas; Roof rat - nest in ceiling or burrow under bushes; House mouse – only one dominant male in a group, nest in dark hidden area. Mature rats can give birth to 6-12 pups live 1-2 years. It follow the same path when foraging for food (along the fence, wall), leave greasy and black marks or droppings and urine. It easily develops food or bait shy.

Cockroaches

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Cockroaches

Cockroaches has secretion a repulsive odor. Cockroach in Malaysia: American lay 10-60 eggs in each ootheca (30–40 nymphs), feed on fermenting foods, dead or wounded cockroach of their own; German carry ootheca 24-48 hours before it hatch, feed on sugar, meats, cannibalistic (chew on wings and legs of each other). Nest in food-storage and other dark places. It carries pathogen can cause diarrhea, dysentery and hep. B.

Common Ants

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Common Ants

Ants are social insects consist of Queen - main egg-laying; Worker - foraging food; Female and Male - mating to form new colony, and Immature stages (egg, larva and pupa). In Malaysia, Pharoah, black crazy, yellow crazy, ghost and big-headed ants are consider as pest in the human environment. Nest in the soil, under concrete slabs, in structural woods and in the garden. It feed on food high carbohydrate and protein.

Mosquitoes

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Mosquitoes

Mosquito bacteria are transmitted during the feeding process. Male and female feed on nectar or plant juice but female require a blood meal as protein to lay fertile eggs. In Malayisa, there are Aedes, Anopheles and Culex. It don’t travel far (8-16 km). More efforts must be concentrated on clearing stagnant water where it breed.

Flies

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Flies

Fly bring food contamination, and other materials by contact. House, Bottle, Fruit and Drain fly are found in our living environment. Immature stage should be eliminated to gain a good control. Fly are strong flyers and foraging food far away from nest. Fly is attracted to the UV light. Fly regurgitates the stomach contents on the foods, dissolves and suck it back into stomach. Eggs are laid on the larval food.

Fleas

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Fleas

Cat fleas start with the pets and spread into the premise. It can be seen places near cats rest/sleeps or at shoes, on blankets, sofa and other furniture. It is extremely thin insect that difficult to find in animal's coat. It feed for 12 hours on a human and lay viable eggs. It jump within seconds out of cocoon and begins feeding within minutes. It bites tend to be concentrated on the lower legs.

Ticks

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Ticks

Dog ticks painful bites can cause itchiness, swelling to the skin. Eradication of ticks can’t rely on insecticide alone. Other methods: frequent cleaning and maintaining a hygienic environment is vital. Its mouthpart for piercing the skin and sucking blood, it has a pair of strong hind legs enabling to jump vertically up to 18cm-33cm. It can lay 4-10 eggs after a meal and total 400 eggs in lifetime, egg to adult is 17 days. It live more than 2 years.

Bed Bugs

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Bed Bugs

Beg bugs are human parasites, adverse to light and often hide inside cracks daytime. It can lay up to 5 eggs per day and total over 200 eggs in lifetime. The eggs will develop in 20 days and it subsist 6-12 months. It is feed on sleeping at midnight till dawn. It stays near foraging within 30m, picture frames, wooden furniture, door and window frames. It can starve for long period. It is efficient hitchhikers easily transported. (transport or goods).

Spiders

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Spiders

Spiders have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs. Unlike insects, spiders don’t have antennae and no extensor muscles in their limbs. Male spider complex courtship rituals to avoid eaten by the female. Females weave silk egg-cases contain 100s of eggs. Females care for their young by carrying them around. Social behavior ranges from precarious, as the widow spiders, cooperative hunting and food-sharing. It lives for at most 2 years.