Posts from the ‘Roaches’ Category

With a heat wave coming through Southern Arizona it is no wonder why so many pests are being seen. Plenty of homeowners and property owners have been coping with these creepy insects on a daily basis.

Angie’s List , which allows members to offer consumer reviews, records searches for pest control companies up 48 percent in March compared with the same month a year ago.

Phones are ringing off the hook – a full two months before the bugs usually arrive. These early unwanted guests include ants, bees and wasps, spiders and bed bugs.

Homeowners and property owners are better off calling professionals. People think they can save a lot going with do-it-yourself. They might be successful at first breaking up the colony but ultimately it can create more problems or simply the colony can repopulate elsewhere.  Professional services, like Northwest Exterminating work like bug detectives. We are trained to look for the right and best solution for your property.

April’s temperatures have been at record-highs reaching up into the upper 90s. The thing with pests this month, is that it probably won’t stop. It will still continue on for several months. The pest invasion has begun….so beware!

People who suffer from food allergies especially chocolate might be shocked to learn that their allergy could be linked to something other than the cocoa bean, it could be an allergy to cockroaches! Eww! Gross right!?

It is said that an average of 8 insect parts are found in a chocolate bar! According to the FDA the contaminants in chocolate are deemed safe. Anything more than 60 insect pieces per 100 grams of chocolate is rejected by the FDA.

Trace amounts of insect parts that are ground into the food and can affect people with allergies and asthma.  Some side effects include migraines, cramps, itching or hives. Peanut butter, macaroni, fruit, cheese, popcorn, wheat and some cheese also contain this material.

Inorder to help patients with cockroach allergies, allergists can give allergy shots as well as remove chocolate from their diet.

Cockroaches and their droppings seem to be indigenous to the cocoa bean, to avoid insects in your food is almost impossible!

What word comes to mind when you see these critters above?

Well for most people it is gross, disgusting, even re-polsive but for chef Gene Rurka it is sometime different. Gener Rurka is a New York chef who believes that serving hissing cockroaches are the food of the future. He raises his own livestock right outside of Manhattan and is dedicated to finding fare that is both sustainably raised as well as suitably exotic.

Cockroaches are the food of the future! The world’s population is exploding and the earth’s resources grow more limited with each passing day.

Q: It is getting very warm this year in most areas of the United States. I was wondering if because of this specific weather change what type of critters and insects would be coming out?

It is true, that one of the USA’s warmest winters in years could possibly lead to a bug bonanza.  over the next weeks with all kinds of insects like beetles, ants, termites and wasps all coming out much earlier than usual.

In some places, the onslaught has already begun. Many insects that are being seen are not the usual ones that come out this time of year; those that include stink bugs and boxelder bugs.

This widespread warmth is hitting several cities including New York, Chicago, Washington, etc. Winter is usually the time of months that insects hibernate but they may be emerging quite early from their hiding places. One key for the insects is that if they come out early, the flowers and plants they feed on must also bloom equally early. They have to be synchronized with what they’re feeding upon.

So contact northwest exterminatingfor all our pest control needs.

Q: What are those brown spots that you find in corners that have lots of cockroaches?

Those “brown spots” are sort of what you would call cockroach “poop.” This dark, dry feces is left behind, along with liquid fecal spots, in areas where cockroaches congregate together. In heavily infested areas, you can see the spotting along the edges of cabinets, corners and on top of door frames, etc. The fecal spots attract other cockroaches to a location. They contain an aggregation pheromone in which other cockroaches “sniff” out. The pheromone tells newly arriving cockroaches that this is the spot to find food, water, hiding places, and others of their kind.