As weather patterns shift, pests continue to acclimatize, and this only means one thing: more trouble for homeowners and businesses in Sydney. As a pest control firm, keeping up with some of the latest pest control trends can go a long way in helping you understand the pest control options that you have. The following are some the pest control trends to expect in 2017.
Environmentally Friendly Pest Control Methodologies
More and more homeowners are opting for natural pest control solutions with lesser environmental impacts. There is, therefore, an upsurge of products that are being marketed as ‘eco-friendly’. To compete effectively in the industry, you must be ready to offer more ‘green’ pest control products.
Minimal Exposure Products
Besides eco-friendly products, consumers in Sydney are shifting to pest control products that minimize expose to their premises occupants. For ants and other insects, for instance, homeowners prefer products that they can use to treat soil around their premises’ perimeters before pouring foundation during the construction process. Such pre-treated soil ensures continuous protection around the home and keep off subterranean ants and termites.
Rethinking Home Lighting Design as a Pest Control Measure
Today, more than ever, many homes in Sydney are adopting cost effective and green lighting. On the flip side, however, this move can play a big role in making a home or facility more attractive to pests. Various studies have found out that LED light emissions whose wavelengths are less than 550 nanometers may attract more pests than their counterparts with higher wavelengths. When pests are attracted to a facility, there is high likelihood that they will gain entry through cracks, gaps, doors and windows. However, this does not mean that people should avoid using LED lighting in their homes, they should be cautious to select lighting systems that emit spectrums that don’t attract pests. To a pest control company and the whole pest control industry at large, these findings provide great opportunities to collaborate with the lighting industry to develop energy efficient lighting products that have appropriate wavelengths that does not attract pests as well as other more innovative products.
By and large, every community in and around Sydney will continue to have unique pests that aren’t easy to control. Whether it is ants, bedbugs or stinkbugs, each opportunity will allow the pest control industry to flourish. This means that more and more people will be gainfully employed as result of the new developments in the industry. Well, there will be challenges along the way, but for Sydneys best pest control firm, such challenges will even bring more rewards.