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Pest Control Services San Antonio
Our company offers general pest control services in and around your home or business. We started this business decades ago. We aim to provide professional service at an affordable price. We are licensed, registered, and insured. Our technicians are trained and certified.
These days a regular program for pest management is essential. A pest infestation can happen anywhere: in homes, apartments, restaurants, hospitals, adult care facilities, daycare centers, warehouses, office buildings, etc.
Pests can come into any building through food, product deliveries, clothing, or bags we carry. Loss to your business could be very big if a mouse gnaws through the wiring of your inter-office computers – shutting down your entire office building. Regular inspections, monitoring, identification of pests, and proper treatment are essential to have pest-free facilities.
Proper and effective pest control is much more than applying pesticides. We thoroughly inspect your property, evaluate pest problems, and recommend preventing future pest problems. We carefully apply pest control techniques that are best to solve your pest problems. More on this website @ https://jenkinspest.com
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Stored Product Pests
Stored product pests infest various foods, including flour, whole grains, seeds, crackers, processed cereals, peas, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and spices. Some common stored product insects are:
saw-toothed grain beetle
drugstore beetles
granary weevils
Indian meal moth
Other stored product pests that can be found, especially in imported foods, are:
confused flour beetle
larder beetle
pea weevil
rice weevil
yellow mealworm
Proper identification of these pests is important to do proper treatment. Some insects spend their entire life cycle in food; therefore, control methods can often be limited to throwing away of the infested products. Confused and red flour beetles are major pests of flour. They are found in flour, dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, spices, cake mixes, beans, etc. Insects are sometimes brought into the home along with infested food products. They then begin to multiply and spread to other foods.
Clothes Moth
Adult clothes moth is 1/2 inch long from wing tip to wing tip; when wings are folded, the insect is about 1/4 inch long with golden-yellow color with a satiny sheen. A tuft of hair on the head is upright and reddish gold. Eggs are oval, ivory, and about 1/24 inch long. Larvae are a shiny, creamy white with a brown head up to 1/2 inch long. The larvae spin threads and construct tunnels of silk.
Clothes moth larvae feed on wool, feathers, hair, leather, fur, lint, dust, paper, cotton, linen, silk, and synthetic fibers. Most damage is done to the fabric stained with beverages, urine, oil from hair, and sweat. Clothes moths cause more damage to undisturbed articles for a long time. Damaged fabrics have holes eaten through them by small, white larvae and often have silken cases and fecal pellets over the surface of the fabrics. Moths cause the most damage during the larvae stage. Good housekeeping is important for preventing moth damage. Clothing should be stored in tightly closed containers. Clean clothes before storing; frequently using woolen and other animal fiber clothing help avoid damage from clothes moths.
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Indian Meal Moth
The Indian meal moth is considered the most troublesome of the grain-infesting moths and is common in stored products pests found in homes, food processing plants, grain storage and processing facilities. Damage is caused by the larvae spinning silken threads as they feed and crawl, thus webbing food particles together. Small moths can be found flying around rooms, kitchens and pantries. These moths fly mostly at night and are attracted to lights and may appear around television sets. Occasionally white worms with black head crawl up walls and suspend from the ceiling attached to a single silken thread. The female moth lays between 60 to 300 eggs in clusters or singles near or on the foodstuff. Eggs hatch in 2 to 14 days with tiny caterpillars with white color. They disperse within a few hours. The larvae stage is the pest stage when they feed.
