How to do safe pest service Strategies in Ocala

Pest Service Strategies: Central Florida Video

All right. Today is Saturday, we’re out here bordering The Villages in the Ocala area. At, this little school. Just wanted to explain a little bit on how we maintain it safely while keeping pests under control. This always tends to be full of pollinators. Most people don’t realize that even our wasps are pollinator. So, this one normally has a ton of wasp around it.

Sometimes the best fix if we don’t want so many pollinators is by changing the shrubberies, changing the trees. That bush, these little palmettos, uh they like put nests in here. We don’t do liquid for the most part unless it’s cracks and crevices, treating around sophists, controlling some of the spiders with it. But primarily this property is controlled completely with granulated baits and gel baits.

A huge reason is the school is surrounded with flowering hedges and plants. Great thing is there’s not so much mulch. Rock definitely allows some water drainage. Uh we started this taking it over from one of the big companies. Um, and I was able to see how they were servicing. And uh, a huge thing that I didn’t like is how much liquid they were using uh, on the inside and the outside.

They were spraying inside the sandbox when they would get ants. I mean, you could just see how much flowering is. This is after a service. Good cobweb dust. uh liquid crack and crevice liquid in some of the joints around the lights that stay on. That’s where it tends to get the most spider activity.

Think granulated baits to control the ants and cockroaches. They get a lot of crickets. Um ton of spiders by doorways. Again, lights stay on a lot of the time. around windows.

So, our safer option outside of liquid is baiting. Baiting allows us to treat for target spec specific pests. So, we’re not just spraying all over the place and anything that it lands on. We always keep a lookout for new entrance points. This is one of them. You can tell at one point there was cocking there, but recently it has failed. So that’s how certain things come in. You know, especially a lot of things house under mulch. So what does it do? It looks for the foundation.

That’s where you get a lot of protection and then it happens to crawl in to a crack or crevice. So we did treat that crack and crevice with a liquid and then broadcast bait around the structure. You know, a huge thing we really try to make sure we do is provide safer options rather than just spraying everywhere and hoping that bugs run into it. Unfortunately, that seemed to be the last company’s strategy.

So, making sure we’re just not dumping synthetics all over lawns where kids play. Everything is labeled. I don’t want to say everything, but majority of things are labeled to where it can be used, but if they’re safer options, uh, we try to figure those out. So, you can see this is after a treatment. The broadcast baiting is designed to where you can’t even see it.

It’s not in piles everywhere. So, the kids really aren’t getting in contact with it. It falls in between most of the mulch. But you can see this is nice tight structure, but everywhere you look there’s flowers. So you don’t want to spray everywhere because we want to keep our pollinators as safe as we can.

So again, everything is spot treated. If we see wasps, we spot treat them. We’re just not hosing down playgrounds. But as we continue, more flowers. So the wasp will pollinate, bees will pollinate, moths, butterflies. So we try to pro protect as much as we can. They are doing some construction. So these are things we’re just going to point out. Sealing that up so spiders and other pests don’t run in.

Today we got a good service in. But I just wanted to point out a few things on how we service with intention. We’re not just coming here and spraying all over the place and, you know, hoping that it knocks things down. We do get a lot of calls about this tree. But again, they’re just pollinating in there, finding some cracks and crevices, but it was treated. All right. And we are out of here.

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