Pest Management

Pest Managem

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Help Yourself to a Healthy Home Indoor Air

Quality Asthma &

Allergies Mold &

Moisture Carbon

Monoxide Lead Drinking Water Hazardous

Household Products

Pesticides Home Safety

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HUD &National Center for Health Housing‘s Keys to a Healthy Home

Keep It Dry Keep It Clean Keep It Pest-Free Keep It Ventilated Keep It Safe Keep It Contaminant-Free Keep It Maintained Keep it Thermo-controlled

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At the conclusion of the training be able: Define integrated pest management or IPM

Identify 3 actions that are part of an IPM program

Know how to safely use pesticides if needed

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Lesson Objectives

Questions to Ask about your home?

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Do you have

pests?

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What do you know about the pests you have in your home?1 - How did they get into your home?2 - Where do they live?3 - How do they reproduce?4 - What do they like to eat?

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How are your managing or controlling the pests?

1 - Have you tried to keep them out by blocking entry into your home?2 - Have you kept food out of reach of the pest?3 - Have you been trying to trap the pest?4 - Have you been using pesticides?

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How did they get into your home?

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Plant boxes and open windows?

Tree branches touching the house ?

Plants close to house

In something YOU brought into house

Three Pest Examples

CockroachesAntsRodents

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How did the cockroaches get into your home?

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Plant boxes and open windows?

Tree branches touching the house ?

Plants close to house

In something YOU brought into house

Where do the cockroaches live?

• Anywhere in a building

• Prefer spots near water but also need food and warmth

• In cracks and crevices where their bodies touch surfaces above and below

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Cockroaches

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AmericanCockroaches

German Cockroaches

How do cockroaches reproduce?

Multiple eggs in each egg case

Many eggs means many nymphs (babies)

Nymphs look like small versions of the adults

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What do cockroaches eat?

• Crumbs• Grease• Trash• Cardboard glue• Just about

anything

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Where do cockroaches drink?

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SinksCountersFloorsPet bowlsShower stallsSweaty leaking pipesRefrigerator drip pans and gaskets AC units

Ants

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How did the ants get into your home?

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Plant boxes and open windows?

Tree branches touching the house ?

Plants close to house

In something YOU brought into house

Indoor or Outdoor Ant

Indoor Ant Outdoor Ant

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pavement ants, carpenter ants, acrobat ants, pharaoh ants, odorous house ants, fire ants, argentine ants etc. etc.

Where do ants live?

Indoors

• Spaces behind walls• Cabinets• Appliances• Behind window and door

frames• Beneath floors and concrete

slabs• Potted plants

Outdoors• Open areas• Shaded areas• under pavement, stones,

mulch, woodpiles, flower pots, and house siding

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VERY MOBILE LOCATIONS

How do ants reproduce?

Queen lays eggsAdult workers take care of eggs, larvae and pupae

Adult workers have different jobs

Different species, different life length

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http://askabiologist.asu.edu/individual-life-cycle

What do ants eat?

• Just about anything depending on the species of ant

• Ants lay down invisible odor trails that lead other ants to food source

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Where do ants drink?

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SinksCountersFloorsPet bowlsShower stallsSweaty pipesRefrigerator drip pans and gaskets AC units

Rodents

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Hantavirus and Rodents

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is the potential result of exposure to hantavirus

Contact with hantavirus-infected rodents or their urine and droppings is how.

Rodent control in and around the home remains the primary strategy for preventing hantavirus infection.

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How the disease spreads

Breathing in dust that is contaminated with rodent urine or droppings

Direct contact with rodents or their urine and droppings

Bite wounds, although this does not happen frequently

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How do you know you have a rodent problem?

• Sightings• Noise• Gnaw marks• Nests• Rat burrows• Droppings• Holes and rub marks• Indicator pests

How did the rodents get into your home?

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Plant boxes and open windows?

Tree branches touching the house ?

Plants close to house

In something YOU brought into house

What kind of rodent do I have?

Mouse Rat

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Where do rodents live?

Mouse• Nesting occurs where shelter

and materials are available• Shredded paper, burlap,

fabric, insulation, or other fibrous materials can form a nest

• Nests resemble a woven mass, or “ball,” and they are usually 4 to 6 inches in diameter.

Rat• ROOF RAT

– generally high up: attics, rafters, crossbeams of buildings. Form runways along pipes and wires

• NORWAY RAT– generally low down: in

basements, on the ground floor, in sewers and subways, in burrows under buildings.

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• Need a hole the size of a quarter to enter

• Are very smart, cautious, and afraid of new things

• Need water every day

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Inches

Rats

• Mice need a hole the size of a dime to enter

• Mice are curious• Don’t need to drink water daily

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Inches

Mice

How do the rodents reproduce?

Mouse• Breed rapidly

– A single pair can become an infestation quickly!

– Take action when evidence of ONE mouse is seen or heard

• Don’t travel far—just 30 feet from their nest

Rat• Slower to reach reproductive

maturity compare to mice – but >6 litters per year

• Will travel 450 feet from their burrow, but prefer to live close to food and water sources

• Usually live outside and come inside for food and water

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What do rodents eat?

Food choice varies with species

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Where do rodents drink?

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SinksCountersFloorsPet bowlsShower stallsSweaty pipesRefrigerator drip pans and gaskets AC units

Bed bugs

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A blood-sucking insect FlatRange in size from a sesame seed to a apple seed

Light brown to mahogany red depending when they last fed

Bed bug slides adapted from NCHH IPM Multi-Family Housing

http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu/wisc/bedbugs4.html

Bed bugs: Staying Calm

Bed bugs do not transmit disease, but they are a pest of significant public health importance

Cause secondary infections after people scratch their bed bug bites

Result in stress, loss of work, loss of productivity, loss of sleep, and financial burden

Are unwelcome in our homes and workplaces

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Bed bugs: How do they get into your home?

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Most active at night – because humans are asleep

Hide in cracks and crevices, often in groups

Cannot fly, jump, or burrow into skin…they crawl

Hitchhike on coats, bags, furniture, wheelchairs…

http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu/wisc/bedbugs6.html

http://flic.kr/p/8LNW5G

Bed bugs: How do they reproduce?

They need a human blood meal!

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Unfed

Fed

Bed bugs: How to manage for them?

Identify Bites Fecal spots Shed skins Dead bed bugs

Live bed bugs

Evaluate Infestation

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In the building In any crack or crevice where a credit card edge could fit

In anything near where people rest

Bed bugs How to Manage for them

Hitchhike on coats, bags, furniture, wheelchairs –inspect thoroughly anything you bring into the home

Be diligent when visiting other places – look for them

Contact a Pest Management Professional

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http://flic.kr/p/78xL44

What is Integrated Pest Management

or IPM?

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http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/11/rats_the_mice_are_moving_in.html

How are you managing or controlling the pests?

1. Have you tried to keep them out by blocking entry into your home?2. Have you kept food out of reach of the pest?3. Have you been trying to trap the pest?4. Have you been using pesticides?

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Blocking Entry

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Minimize Access to Food & Water• No pets dishes left out

overnight• No dirty dishes left in

the sink• Fix leaky faucets

• Keep counter tops cleaned off – wash with vinegar water to confuse ants

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TrapMonitoring

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Traps

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Snap Traps

How to use baits to kill/trap rodents

Mice1. Bait & set many traps2. 6 traps for each mouse3. Set immediately

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Rats1. Place many traps

2. Bait and leave UNSET until rats are readily feeding

3. Bait and set all traps

Bait with what they’re eating or using to nest

Bait Traps for Rodents

The label is the law All rodenticide labels require tamper-resistant stations

Read the label on both the station and the bait

The bait station should be secured, locked, and labeled

If the rodents areinside, considerusing traps

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Pesticides

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Contact Insecticides vs. Baits

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Cockroach & Ant Bait Stations

With baits the insecticide is taken back to the nest and shared with others (cockroaches and ants).

Most baits contain an insecticide and food attractant confined within a plastic, child-resistant container.

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Are you using

pesticides? And are you using them

correctly? The label is the law!

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Protect Yourself when Using Pesticides

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http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/uo218.pdf

Are you storing pesticides correctly?

Out of reach of children

In original containers

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Are you disposing of

pesticides

properly?

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http://npic.orst.edu/health/readlabel.html

Action Steps

Keep a Clean Home Keep Pests Out of Your Home

Use Pesticides Safely Store and Dispose of Pesticides Safely

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Keep a Clean Home

NO Pest FoodNO Pest Water NO Pest Habitat

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Keep Pests Out of Your Home

Block entry into home Caulking entry

points Trimming shrubs

and limbs touching home

No plant material touching home

No boxes or furniture that hasn’t been inspected for pests allowed in the home

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Examples

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Use Pesticides Safely

Right pesticide for the pest - contact vs. bait

Read the label every time pesticide used – the label is the law

Personal Protective Equipment used

Pesticides storage AWAY from children

NO Bombs/Foggers

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Store and Dispose of Pesticides Safely

OUT OF REACH

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Review of

Action Steps as part of IPM progra

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Keep a Clean Home Keep Pests Out of Your Home Use Pesticides Safely Store and Dispose of Pesticides Safely

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For More Information

Urban IPM via eXtension.org

Urban IPM via eXtension on Facebook

Stoppests.org (Northeastern IPM Center)

State Level IPM programs through Extension

EPA - http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/

National Pesticide Information Center http://npic.orst.edu/index.html

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Video Links

If you have time showing videos of doing a home inspection and techniques to minimize presence of pests

Integrated Pest Management in Baltimore City examplehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2MPoByymQE&list=PL0D06851729E36830&index=1

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Credits

National Center for Healthy Housing

IPM in Multi-Family Housing Workshop

www.nchh.org

for photos and drawings also various *.gov websites

including eXtension.org and other Extension

Services/Systems in USA unless noted

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