Pest Control News Archive

Mountain pine beetles and Asian Long-Horned Beetles are no strangers to Mississauga. In 2014, a combination of a raging ice storm and beetle infestation resulted in the axing of five thousand trees from Malton’s Wildwood Park; a total of seven thousand trees were totally removed in that year. Being an invasive species, the larvae of the Asian Long-Horned Beetle go into the trees and chew the branches, ultimately destroying the tree’s health. The Mountain pine beetles are native to North America and have destroyed half of the pine trees in British Columbia. Warmer climates and their ability to quickly move over to other trees to start colonies make it difficult to manage their population. Our professional pest control service play a major role in controlling beetle infestation in Mississauga.

A recent study from the University of Toronto focused on how humans are contributing to the evolution of pests including bedbugs, cockroaches, insects, and birds. The researchers reviewed 192 studies and concluded that almost 134 species of birds, reptiles, and other bugs across the world have been impacted by human action and are becoming increasingly resistant to chemicals used to control them. The old methods of controlling bedbugs with insecticides do not work anymore, according to the review study by co-author Marc Johnson who is a biology professor at the University of Toronto. They also uncovered that different breeds of mosquitoes evolved when people took shelter in London underground during World War II, which were totally unlike the above-ground mosquitoes.

Wasp and bee stings caused at least three deaths last summer in Manitoba. The months of July and August are when wasps become aggressive and go farther to look for food. Bees and wasps tend to sting when their nests at ground level are disturbed while lawn mowing or cleaning. Wasp and bee stings cause nearly a hundred deaths in the U.S. annually. Wasp and bee stings are more lethal than many spiders, jellyfish or snakes. A recent analysis based on data collected from 13 years in Australia show that bee and wasp stings resulted in close to 42,000 people being hospitalized in the duration of the study. Of all the fatalities that occurred in this study, at least 50% were due to anaphylactic shock that causes severe breathing problems, systemic failure and shock due to allergic reactions.