Urban Pests

Pests are animals that we consider to be damaging to us or our goings-on. We create circumstances where populations of these pests exist in much larger numbers than would ever be found in their normal environment and close to us. We provide them with more places for shelter, food supply, for some pests we are the source of food, and fewer predators. Urban pests are those animals that flourish in the human environment and impact on us in a detrimental way, such as carrying disease, damaging buildings, tainting and eating food in our homes, or nourishing on our blood and causing annoying bites.

Urban pests include:

Ants: stings, food pest, damage outdoor areas

Rodents: food pests, damage to buildings and carry diseases

Bed bugs: blood feeding

Fleas: blood feeding and disease vectors

Wasps: stings

Beetles: damage food and wooden structures; foul food

Cockroaches: food pests and carriers of disease

Flies: bites

Birds: mainly pigeons, starlings and sparrows that foul buildings, carry diseases

Lice: blood feeding

Mites: human and animal parasites

Mosquitoes: blood feeding and carry diseases

Moths: food and natural product pests

Ticks: blood feeding and disease vectors

gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky

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