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Sweet diet slows thinking, rat study shows – New York Daily News

3bigbass — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:00:10 +0000

The brain freeze from that hot fudge sundae might last longer than you think.

A new UCLA study on rats is the first to show how a diet high in processed sugar slows the brain, hampering memory and learning.

“Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think,” study author Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said. “Eating a high-fructose diet over the long term alters your brain’s ability to learn and remember information.”

Fortunately, the study also found that the omega-3 fatty acids in foods such as salmon, walnuts and flaxseeds can counteract the disruption, he said.

The UCLA team focused its study on high-fructose corn syrup — the inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar that’s commonly added to soft drinks, condiments and a host of processed treats.

“We’re not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants,” Gomez-Pinilla said.

The researchers studied two groups of rats that each consumed a fructose solution as drinking water for six weeks. The second group also received omega-3 fatty acids.

The animals were fed standard rat chow and trained on a maze twice daily for five days before starting the experimental diet.

After six weeks on the fructose fluid, the researchers tested the rats’ ability to recall the route and escape the maze.

The rats that received the omega-3 fatty acids navigated the maze much faster than their counterparts, the researchers said.

“The (omega-3 deprived) animals were slower, and their brains showed a decline in synaptic activity,” Gomez-Pinilla said. “Their brain cells had trouble signaling each other, disrupting the rats’ ability to think clearly and recall the route they’d learned six weeks earlier.”

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The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology published the study results in its May 15 edition.

“Our findings suggest that consuming (omega-3 fatty acids) regularly protects the brain against fructose’s harmful effects,” Gomez-Pinilla said. “It’s like saving money in the bank. You want to build a reserve for your brain to tap when it requires extra fuel to fight off future diseases.”

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Beware: High wasp nest alert – Sydney Morning Herald

The Pest Man — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:20 +0000

Wasp nest found in Kambah behind the Lyon’s youth haven being removed by Tams Rural officer Jenny Conolly of Parks and Conservation. Photo: Elesa Lee

Canberra’s European Wasp Hotline has been inundated with reports of nests in the capital. The surge in reports of wasp nests in the capital has increased by 15 per cent on the same period last year. At the end of March, 480 nests were found.

Territory and Municipal Services wasp expert Philip Spradbey the increase reflected the wasps’ capacity to increase nest production during autumn – their queen-rearing season.

‘‘In Canberra each nest has the potential of producing up to 20,000 new queens which is a tenfold increase to the 2000 new queens produced in Europe during their autumn,’’ Dr Spradbery said.

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Wasp nest found in Kambah behind the Lyon’s youth haven being removed by Tams Rural officer Jenny Conolly of Parks and Conservation. Photo: Elesa Lee

‘‘Each queen produced at this time of year is potentially a new nest next year.’’

A nest about three to four years old was found in Kambah today and could have released up to 60,000 wasp queens.

Canberra residents have been urged to report wasp nests to decrease nest numbers.

Dr Spradbery said nests could be found within and around homes but were usually hidden underground or in wall cavities.

‘‘At this time of year nests may be larger than a basketball, weigh more than five kilograms and house up to 4000 adult wasps per colony,’’ Dr Spradbery said.

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The buzz on battling flying, stinging summer bugs – Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Pest Man — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:14 +0000

Summer picnic season is upon us, and that means it is time to grab the sunglasses, cooler and sunscreen, and head outdoors. But people are not the only ones who want to enjoy the warm weather. Flying, stinging insects like bees and wasps are abuzz, and make their presence known when collecting pollen and nectar as the weather warms.

“In the proper environment, bees, wasps and yellow jackets can be very beneficial,” says Ron Harrison, entomologist and Orkin technical services director. “In addition to pollinating flowers and plants, they eat grubs, flies and other harmful pests. It is when they are aggravated or feel threatened that they can be a bigger problem.”

There are more than 20,000 known bee species around the world. Their stings can be painful and may cause allergic reactions. About 2 million Americans are allergic to insect stings, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and many of them are at risk of life-threatening reactions.

Carpenter bees are fairly large and are often mistaken for bumble bees. They can cause significant damage to decks, siding, landscape timbers and even lawn furniture, but males – even though they are aggressive – do not have stingers, and the females rarely sting. Females bore holes in wood to deposit their eggs.

Yellow jackets can sting multiple times and aggressively protect their colonies, but otherwise, are not quick to sting. They commonly nest on or near the ground under porches or steps, in sidewalk cracks, around railroad ties, or at the base of trees. Yellow jackets are also scavengers, so they can be found near garbage cans and picnics.

Paper wasps look similar to yellow jackets in that they are narrow and dark brown with black wings and yellow markings. Paper wasp nests are made from small wood or plant fibers combined with saliva and appear to be made from paper. Their nests – frequently found in sheltered areas like tree branches and eaves of houses – include numerous compartments where they lay their eggs and rear their young.

Be sure to contact a pest professional like Orkin before attempting to address a bee infestation or hive. Harrison offers the following tips to help avoid flying and stinging pests:

* Use a weed trimmer to thin vegetation near your home, as thick vegetation provides a place for both bees and wasps to nest.

* Don’t leave food or drink containers uncovered for long periods of time. Pests are attracted to human food sources and stinging pests can often enter cans unseen, so it is best to pour your drink into a glass.

* Fit screens and tighten seals properly on doors and windows to prevent pests from entering into your home.

* For those at risk of an allergic reaction, apply an EPA-registered insect repellent on clothing and exposed skin to deter bites and stings.

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Wasps Nests Destroyed in Burnley £32.00 Fixed Price

The Bugman — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:11:43 +0000

Wasps Nests

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Burnley £32.00

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Wasp Nest Control Burnley get rid of wasps nests within your regions of Manchester, Trafford, Lancashire, North Cheshire and Merseyside with a fixed charge of just £32 or £44.50 for customers residing in postcode areas L, CW and CH.

If your home is outside our region of operation kindly visit our Locate A WASP NEST CONTROLLER page to discover a contractor near you.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley operate seven days every week through the wasp season of June – November and we do not charge extra money for call outs in the evening or at weekend.

If you wish to remove a wasp nest call Wasp Nest Control Burnley we answer our phone from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm which includes weekends.

In Britain Wasp Nest Control Burnley remove three major varieties of wasps. The Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), the German wasp (Vespula Germanica) and the so called ‘Euro Wasp’ (Dolichovespula media), a recent arrival from the continent.

In practise there’s no need for Wasp Nest Control Burnley to distinguish the type of wasp we are destroying given that they all respond to exactly the same procedure.

Contrary to urban myth Wasp Nest Control Burnley do not ever work on hornets (Vespula crabro) in the North West because we simply do not get them this far north. There is a local myth in this area that hornets are much smaller than wasps when in fact they are many times bigger.

The biology among all types of wasps destroyed by Wasp Nest Control Burnley is exactly the same.

The wasp nest is started by a single wasp queen at the begining of spring. On awaking from her hibernation in late March or early April she will feed herself on aphids and grubs before starting to build the nest.

She forms a cocoon a bit smaller compared to golf ball using ‘wasp paper’, generated by chewing rotten wood and blending it along with her saliva.

Inside the rudimentary nest she will lay a few eggs, usually fewer than 20 and tend to these baby wasps until they can fly. When the first batch of wasps are flying she goes inside the nest and never appears again. Her job is now to lay eggs and she is looked after by the workers.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley will get many calls during the early summer from those who see these early nests in outhouses and garden sheds. Even these small nests have to be addressed with care as even the queen can sting.

The building of the nest picks up pace in June and early July where the nests can double in size seemingly daily.

The eventual proportions of the nest seems to be governed by means of the weather but generally will be about the size of a medicine ball. Wasp Nest Control Burnley have however seen wasp nests bigger than Borough Council wheelie bin.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley will are sometimes asked ‘what good do wasps do?’. The truth is for most of the summer they feed on garden pests which includes greenfly and caterpillars, hence they are in reality a friend to the gardener.

For most of the summer the wasps made by the nest are sterile females but as autumn approaches the nest will begin to turn out new queens and males. Typically a nest will turn out about 2000 new queens.

Because the wasp stinger is a modified ovipositor, male wasps aren’t able to sting, but even Wasp Nest Control Burnley are unable to tell a male from a female, so far better to avoid.

The males mate together with the new queens and afterwards as the autumn months turns to winter the males and the sterile workers all die and the newly mated queens look for a hibernation site to spend the wintertime before commencing the full process again in the spring.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley are often asked to remove old wasp nests. That is neither advisable nor necessary. The wasp nest is spent and it will never be used again. There’s definitely absolutely no need to remove a wasp nest, even when it is possible to access it, which they rarely are.

As soon as a worker wasp feeds a wasp grub in the nest the wasp grub creates a sweet sticky substance which the worker wasps crave. However once we move into late summer the nest no longer creates grubs and the workers cannot get their pleasurable ‘fix’ of the sweet substance. It is at this point of the year that they’ll now start to be troublesome, switching from the protein diet of aphids and grubs to a new diet of sweet foods as an example fruit.

This is the reason that they’ll cluster around your barbecues and beer gardens, trying to find sweet food and also becoming a total pest.

It is not advisable to attempt to do away with a wasp nest oneself because it is easy to sustain a large number of stings in a short time. Wasps tend to be at their most dangerous while in the immediate vicinity of their nests.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley will eradicate your nest for you by inserting an insecticide inside the entrance hole. The returning wasps will carry this powder right into the nest so the complete nest should be dead in a short time.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley perform this treatment from outside the house even when it is possible to view the nest from the inside. Only on very rare circumstances will Wasp Nest Control Burnley have to go inside your loft or attic.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley are often called to wasp nests where the home-owner has tried to seal the entrance to the nest will expanding foam or mastic. This can be a very bad idea as well as making the job a great deal more challenging for Wasp Nest Control Burnley, it will probably force the wasps right into the house.

It’s always best to call Wasp Nest Control Burnley to destroy the nest when you first see it. Wasp nests treated after mid-September already have started to produce the new queens and additional extra-cost work for instance smoking or fogging the loft area is likely to be required to get rid of these.

As a result of biology of wasp nests it is really unlikely that you will see wasps before late May or early June unless it has been an exceptionally warm spring. ‘Wasps’ seen flying around your house in April or May will usually prove to be bees.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley aren’t going to destroy solitary bees since they’re harmless and can’t sting.

In the event a ‘wasps’ nest all of a sudden appears within your garden, usually hanging on a branch of a tree, chances are they will not be wasps but honey bees. Should this happen to you call Wasp Nest Control Burnley as we will likely be capable of re-home them with a beekeeper. We charge £75 for this service as we must break our day to get the bees to their new home as quickly as possible.

Wasp Nest Control Burnley charge £32.00 to exterminate a wasp nest or £44.50 for postcode areas L, CH and CW.

For comparison here are prices charged by some local local authorities correct as at May 2012.

Blackpool Council £40

Fylde Borough Council £63

Preston City Council – Don’t Have A Service

Blackburn Borough Council £53

Bolton Council £52

Wigan Council £49

Salford City Council £46.96

Manchester City Council £54

Trafford Borough Council £55 beneath gutter level, £75 above gutter level.

Stockport Borough Council £42.00

Tameside Council £56.64

Rochdale Borough Council £51

Cheshire East Council £56

Cheshire West Council £57

Wirral Borough Council £46

Liverpool City Council £60

Sefton Council – Do Not Supply A Service

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Blackburn Wasps Nests Destroyed £32 fixed price same day service

The Bugman — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:03:11 +0000

Blackburn

Wasps Nests

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Wasp Nest Control Blackburn eradicate wasps nests in the sectors of Manchester, Trafford, Lancashire, North Cheshire and Merseyside for only a fixed rate of just £32 or £44.50 for persons located in postcode areas L, CW and CH.

If you’re outside our area of operation please click our Discover A WASP NEST CONTROLLER page to pinpoint a service locally.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn operate seven days every week across the wasp months of June – November and we do not charge extra cash for call outs in the evening hours or at weekend.

In order to wipe out a wasp nest call Wasp Nest Control Blackburn we answer our telephones from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm this includes weekends.

In Great Britan Wasp Nest Control Blackburn treat three major species of wasps. The Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), the German wasp (Vespula Germanica) and the so called ‘Euro Wasp’ (Dolichovespula media), a recent arrival from the continent.

In practise there’s no need for Wasp Nest Control Blackburn to recognize the type of wasp we are coping with as they all react to the exact same management.

Regardless of urban myth Wasp Nest Control Blackburn don’t take on hornets (Vespula crabro) in the North West because we just do not get them this far north. There is a local myth in this area that hornets are much smaller than wasps when in fact they are many times bigger.

The biology among all types of wasps destroyed by Wasp Nest Control Blackburn is exactly the same.

The wasp nest commences with a single wasp queen during early spring. On awaking from her hibernation in late March or early April she will feed herself on aphids and grubs before starting to build the nest.

She forms a cocoon a bit smaller compared to a golf ball using ‘wasp paper’, made by chewing rotten wood and mixing it together with her saliva.

Within the rudimentary nest she’ll lay only a few eggs, usually under 20 and raise these baby wasps until they are able to fly. The moment the first group of wasps are flying she goes into the nest and never appears again. Her job is now to lay eggs and she is cared for by the workers.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn will get many calls during early summer from people who see these early nests in outhouses and garden sheds. Even these small nests really need to be treated with care as even the queen can sting.

The construction of the nest picks up pace in June and early July where the nests can double in size seemingly daily.

The eventual dimensions of the nest is apparently governed as a result of weather but generally is about the size of a medicine ball. Wasp Nest Control Blackburn have however seen wasp nests bigger than Borough Council wheelie bin.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn will are sometimes asked ‘what good do wasps do?’. In reality for the majority of of the summer they prey on garden pests for instance greenfly and caterpillars, hence they are literally friends to the gardener.

For the majority of the summer the wasps brought to life by the nest are sterile females but as autumn approaches the nest will start to make new queens and males. In general a nest will turn out about 2000 new queens.

Because the wasp stinger is a modified ovipositor, male wasps can not sting, but even Wasp Nest Control Blackburn can’t tell a male from a female, so best to avoid.

The males mate together with the new queens after which as september turns to the winter the males as well as the sterile workers all die and newly mated queens select a hibernation site to spend the winter before commencing the entire process again in the spring.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn are often asked to remove old wasp nests. This is neither advisable nor appropriate. The wasp nest is spent and will never be used again. There’s simply no reason to remove a wasp nest, even if it is possible to access it, which they rarely are.

Whenever a worker wasp feeds a wasp grub in the nest the wasp grub makes a sweet sticky substance that the worker wasps crave. However when we move into late summer the nest no longer develops grubs and then the workers cannot get their pleasurable ‘fix’ from this sweet substance. It is at that time of the season that they will now start to be troublesome, switching from the protein diet of aphids and grubs to a diet of sweet foods which includes fruit.

This is the reason that they’ll cluster around your barbecues and beer gardens, searching for sweet food and becoming a general pest.

It is not advisable to try to get rid of a wasp nest by yourself because it’s easy to sustain a lot of stings rapidly. Wasps are at their most dangerous while in the immediate vicinity of their nests.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn will eliminate your nest for you by injecting an pesticide into the entrance hole. The returning wasps will carry this powder straight into the nest and then the complete nest will be dead in a short time.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn will do this treatment from outside the house even if it is possible to view the nest from inside. Only on rare instances will Wasp Nest Control Blackburn have to go into your loft or attic.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn are often called to wasp nests where home-owner has tried to seal the entrance to the nest will expanding foam or mastic. This is actually a very bad idea and as well as making the process a whole lot more challenging for Wasp Nest Control Blackburn, it will probably force the wasps back into the house.

It’s always best to call Wasp Nest Control Blackburn to eliminate the nest the instant you see it. Wasp nests treated after mid-September already have started to make the new queens and further extra-cost work along the lines of smoking or fogging the loft area is likely to be necessary to destroy these.

On account of the biology of wasp nests it is very unlikely that you’ll see wasps before late May or early June unless it was an especially warm spring. ‘Wasps’ seen flying around the house in April or May will invariably turn out to be bees.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn aren’t going to destroy solitary bees since they’re benign and cannot sting.

Should a ‘wasps’ nest unexpectedly appears in your garden, usually hanging in a branch of a tree, then they are not wasps but honey bees. If this happens to you call Wasp Nest Control Blackburn as we will likely have the capacity to re-home them with a beekeeper. We charge £75 for this service as we must break our day to get the bees to their new home as quickly as possible.

Wasp Nest Control Blackburn charge £32.00 to eradicate a wasp nest or £44.50 for postcode areas L, CH and CW.

To compare listed here are the values charged by some local local authorities correct as at May 2012.

Blackpool Council £40

Fylde Borough Council £63

Preston City Council – Do Not Offer A Service

Blackburn Borough Council £53

Bolton Council £52

Wigan Council £49

Salford City Council £46.96

Manchester City Council £54

Trafford Borough Council £55 underneath gutter level, £75 over gutter level.

Stockport Borough Council £42.00

Tameside Council £56.64

Rochdale Borough Council £51

Cheshire East Council £56

Cheshire West Council £57

Wirral Borough Council £46

Liverpool City Council £60

Sefton Council – Do Not Offer A Service

BURY, PRESTWICH, RADCLIFFE, RAMSBOTTOM, FISHPOOL, AINSWORTH, CRUMPSALL, GREENMOUNT, HOLLINS, TOTTINGTON, WHITEFIELD, WALMERSLEY, HAWKSHAW,BLACKBURN, DARWEN, ECCLESHILL, LIVESEY, NORTH TURTON, PLEASINGTON, TOCKHOLES, YATE, PICKUP BANK, BELMONT, EDGEWORTH, EWOOD BRIDGE, FENISCOWLES, ACCRINGTON, GREAT HARWOOD, BAXENDEN, HUNCOAT, OSWALDWISTLE, ALTHAM, CLAYTON-LE-MOORS, RISHTON

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The buzz on battling flying, stinging summer bugs – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Pest Man — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:00:11 +0000

(ARA) – Summer picnic season is upon us, and that means it is time to grab the sunglasses, cooler and sunscreen, and head outdoors. But people are not the only ones who want to enjoy the warm weather. Flying, stinging insects like bees and wasps are abuzz, and make their presence known when collecting pollen and nectar as the weather warms.

Be sure to contact a pest professional like Orkin before attempting to address a bee infestation or hive. Harrison offers the following tips to help avoid flying and stinging pests:

* Use a weed trimmer to thin vegetation near your home, as thick vegetation provides a place for both bees and wasps to nest.

* Fit screens and tighten seals properly on doors and windows to prevent pests from entering into your home.

* For those at risk of an allergic reaction, apply an EPA-registered insect repellent on clothing and exposed skin to deter bites and stings.

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Unwanted wildlife ‘guests’ hard to remove – MiamiHerald.com

The Pest Man — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:24 +0000

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The Pest Man — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:19 +0000

Know the rules on nuisance animals

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission provides detailed information on all aspects of wild and nuisance animal control. Here are some of those requirements and recommendations:

Injured or orphaned wildlife

Generally, if you find a baby animal, it is best to leave it alone. Often the animal is not orphaned, and the parent may be out gathering food or watching a baby. Never pick up baby animals and remove them from their natural environment.

Nuisance Animals

Human activities can attract certain wildlife species looking for an easy meal or shelter. This can bring them into conflict with the interests of people, and the animals can be considered a nuisance. Most wildlife/human conflicts can be resolved by removing what attracts the animal. Trapping a nuisance animal should be a matter of last resort.

Before removing an animal, read the nuisance wildlife regulations and information — Florida Administrative Code 68A-9.010.

Who can take nuisance wildlife?

Any person owning property may take nuisance wildlife that causes — or is about to cause — property damage, presents a threat to public safety or causes an annoyance in, under or upon a building on their property. The owner may authorize another person to take nuisance wildlife on their behalf. Nuisance wildlife trappers and property owners who have problems are responsible for complying with the laws that protect animals. Before removing an animal, seek assistance in understanding these laws and the options for resolving the problem.

Permits may be required in certain circumstances. The commission does not license nuisance wildlife trappers, but does allow them to advertise their services on its web site. A wildlife trapper must have the consent of the property owner before taking a nuisance animal outdoors.

What to do once a nuisance animal is caught?

Live-captured nuisance wildlife must be released legally, or put to death humanely, within 24 hours of capture or trap inspection. Unless prohibited by a rabies alert or quarantine issued by a county health department or county animal control agency, live captured nuisance wildlife may be transported only for the purpose of euthanasia or legal release.

Only native species of wildlife may be released. Armadillos, coyotes and Muscovy ducks are not considered native.

Captured native nuisance wildlife may be released on the property of the landowner provided the release area is on one contiguous piece of property. The animal may be released away from the capture site if the land is a minimum of 40 contiguous acres, in the same county and written permission by the landowner is given.

— Ray Weiss

PORT ORANGE — There’s nothing worse than uninvited guests dropping by the house and staying for more than a weekend.

Russ Adams is in the business of getting those freeloaders out.

It’s difficult work, but as they say, someone has to do it, because when left unchecked, these intruders — raccoons, squirrels and rats — can destroy wood, wiring and insulation … very quietly.

Making matters worse, those unwelcome guests this time of year often include babies, a new generation that one day could return to occupy that same warm and cozy attic with their future families.

“We’re in the middle of raccoon baby season. This is the time of the year, from February until summertime,” said Adams, who’s up to his eaves with nuisance animals. “Raccoons enter through the overhang on the roof (through the soffit). If you have soffit damage, there’s a good chance you have an animal in your attic.”

Adams, 50, owns Animal Control, an independent animal trapping and removal service that answers calls from Jacksonville to West Palm Beach.

Raccoons rule the roost in the nuisance animal hierarchy, pushing out other intruders if and when they like the look and feel of a particular attic.

“Raccoons cause the most damage structurally,” Adams said, in areas that include insulation, AC duct tubes and drywall. “Raccoons like to live in close proximity to their babies. They spend about a year together. Their main nests and dens are attics.”

Adams said most houses — whether a modest dwelling or a multi-million-dollar mansion — have at least 10 easily penetrable areas around the roof. He prefers sealing those vulnerable areas before a problem occurs, and recommends investigating any noises in the attic.

“Half of every 10 houses have a problem. And only one-percent (of the owners) know it,” he said. “It’s the luck of the draw. A lot of times, they visit, but may not stay. But once there, they never go away on their own. If you have a problem, it’s permanent,”

If the raccoon is free of disease, Adams said he prefers releasing it on a large expanse of private land, with the owner’s consent, following the guidelines of the state. He said the vast majority of illness with the animals involves distemper, not rabies, and cannot be passed to humans.

“They’re actually cool animals, smart and very persistent,” Adams said of raccoons. “It can be like chess, quite challenging to get rid of them.”

Besides raccoons, Adams said roof rats, bats and squirrels can be just as stressful as raccoons to homeowners in Volusia and Flagler counties.

Catching the mother usually is the key to success, so the babies can be manually removed. Once done, the attic entryways, usually around the eaves, must be sealed so an animal cannot poke, chew or scratch its way back inside.

Some companies also use an enzyme spray to kill the bacteria and eliminate any lingering scent so other raccoons or squirrels aren’t attracted inside.

“Squirrels make a baseball-sized hole. You can cover it with a 2 x 4, and within a day, they’re back inside,” Adams said. “It usually takes two to three days, to 10 days, to fix a house depending on the severity.”

Adams said homeowners insurance sometimes covers the cost to remove raccoons, depending on the deductible, but squirrels are considered rodents and not covered.

Phil Cassavant, 57, of South Daytona, is attic-free of nuisance animals now.

A couple of summers ago, he heard intermittent noise in his attic that he assumed might be a bird. His exterminator checked it out, broke the news and recommended Adams, who set some squirrel traps in the attic and around the house.

Because of tight budgets, city and county animal control agencies these days mostly focus on dogs and cats, referring residents with other problem animals to licensed trappers.

“(Adams) then sealed the entry points,” Cassavant recalled. “Within a week, the squirrels were gone. And they haven’t come back.”

Local trappers say they can drive down almost any street and pick out the houses where animals are living in attics. The soffits are damaged, usually pushed in.

“Most houses are vulnerable,” said Jody O’Dell, owner of Critter Control’s Daytona Beach franchise, because Florida dwellings aren’t designed with potential attic animal problems in mind. “And it has nothing to do with it being an old house, or if it’s next to the woods or a lake.”

O’Dell said attics provide a more desirable habitat for delivering babies than a hollow tree in the woods. And houses are much more abundant, easier to find.

“I hear people say all the time, ‘The poor animals are running out of space to live.’ The truth is the exact opposite,” he said. “There are more (raccoons) because of the habitat we’re providing them. Houses.”

O’Dell said one client called him many years after moving into her house, after investigating what turned out to be the work of roof rats and raccoons. The attic looked worse than a fraternity house after an all-night party.

“The insulation that used to be a foot-and-a-half thick was one-and-a-half inches thick,” he said. “It was covered in droppings and every box and suitcase was shredded.”

Maybe out of embarrassment or the fear of ridicule, many folks decline to be identified by name when discussing the war and subsequent peace of living in the same house as nuisance animals.

One Port Orange homeowner hadn’t been in her attic for about six years, until she discovered earlier this week that those mysterious noises she and her family had been hearing in the attic were raccoons.

“I never thought it was possible. We live by a lake,” she said of the Port Orange-area home her family bought new in 1999. “There was a hole in the soffit, where the raccoon pushed up.”

The woman searched and found O’Dell online and a day later he trapped the mother raccoon outside, removed the babies and sealed the vulnerable entry points to the attic.

“It cost me $50 per animal and a small charge for the sealing,” she said, well below her homeowner’s insurance deductible.

O’Dell said he charges from about $350 for a simple trap-and-seal to $5,000 to $6,000 for handling a larger problem that includes a complete attic renovation and insulation replacement.

He said he’s averaging about 50 jobs a week in Volusia, Flagler and Brevard counties, calling the increased demand this year as “weird” because of the unusually warm winter.

“It’s been crazy. Everything is stretched out,” he said of baby seasons. “In the past, the seasons were well-defined. When the cool weather hit, it would spark breeding with squirrels, and the babies were born. But I’ve been doing squirrel babies for the last two months. And there’s no (breeding) season for raccoons. It’s year-round.”

So homeowners beware. Those uninvited guests already might have arrived.

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Wasps Nests in Bury Destroyed £32.00

The Bugman — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:42:08 +0000

Wasps Nests

in Bury

Destroyed £32.00

01204 689361

Wasp Nest Control Bury eliminate wasps nests within the areas of Manchester, Trafford, Lancashire, North Cheshire and Merseyside for just a fixed charge of just £32 or £44.50 for person’s dwelling in postcode areas L, CW and CH.

If you live outside our region of business have a look at our Choose A WASP NEST CONTROLLER page to discover a specialist in your town.

Wasp Nest Control Bury operate 7 days each week during the wasp months of June – November and we never charge extra money for call outs in the evening hours or at weekend.

If you wish to take care of a wasp nest call Wasp Nest Control Bury we answer our phones from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm including weekends.

In Great Britan Wasp Nest Control Bury handle three major varieties of wasps. The Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), the German wasp (Vespula Germanica) and the so called ‘Euro Wasp’ (Dolichovespula media), a recent arrival from the continent.

In practise it is not necessary for Wasp Nest Control Bury to recognize the kind of wasp we are dealing with because they all react to the same treatments.

Regardless of urban myth Wasp Nest Control Bury don’t target hornets (Vespula crabro) within the North West because we simply do not get them this far north. There is a local myth in this area that hornets are much smaller than wasps when in fact they are many times bigger.

The biology among all varieties of wasps destroyed by Wasp Nest Control Bury is exactly the same.

The wasp nest begins from a single wasp queen during the early spring. On awaking from her hibernation in late March or early April she will feed herself on aphids and grubs before starting to build the nest.

She constructs a cocoon slightly smaller in comparison to golf ball using ‘wasp paper’, manufactured by chewing rotten wood and blending it together with her saliva.

Within the rudimentary nest she’ll lay only a few eggs, usually under 20 and tend to these baby wasps until they can fly. Once the first batch of wasps are flying she goes into the nest and never appears again. Her job is now to lay eggs and she is looked after by the workers.

Wasp Nest Control Bury will get many calls in early summer from those who see these early nests in outhouses and garden sheds. Even these small nests have to be addressed with care as even the queen can sting.

The building of the nest picks up speed in June and early July as the nests can double in dimensions seemingly every single day.

The eventual proportions of the nest is apparently governed as a result of weather but in general is about the size of a medicine ball. Wasp Nest Control Bury have however seen wasp nests greater than Borough Council wheelie bin.

Wasp Nest Control Bury will will often be asked ‘what good do wasps do?’. In fact for most of the summer they eat garden pests for example greenfly and caterpillars, so they are in fact a friend to the gardener.

For most of the summer the wasps generated by the nest are sterile females but as autumn gets near the nest will begin to produce new queens and males. Usually a nest will produce about 2000 new queens.

Because the wasp stinger is a modified ovipositor, male wasps aren’t able to sting, but even Wasp Nest Control Bury are unable to tell a male from a female, so best to avoid.

The males mate together with the new queens then as september turns to the winter season the males as well as sterile workers all die and then the newly mated queens locate a hibernation site to spend the wintertime prior to starting the complete process again in the spring.

Wasp Nest Control Bury are often asked to remove old wasp nests. It’s really neither desirable nor needed. The wasp nest is spent and will never be used again. There’s definitely simply no need to remove a wasp nest, even when it’s possible to access it, which they rarely are.

As soon as a worker wasp feeds a wasp grub in the nest the wasp grub generates a sweet sticky substance that the worker wasps crave. However as we move into late summer the nest no longer produces grubs and then the workers cannot acquire their ‘fix’ of the sweet substance. It’s always during this time of the year that they’ll now begin to be bothersome, switching from the protein diet of aphids and grubs to a new diet of sweet foods as an example fruit.

This is the reason that they’ll cluster around your barbecues and beer gardens, trying to find sweet food and also becoming an over-all nuisance.

It is not advisable to try to do away with a wasp nest on your own since it is easy to sustain a large number of stings in a short time. Wasps are at their most dangerous while in the immediate vicinity of their nests.

Wasp Nest Control Bury will eliminate your nest for you by adding an insecticide inside the entrance hole. The returning wasps will carry this powder into the nest and then the complete nest should be dead in a short time.

Wasp Nest Control Bury carry out this process from outside your house regardless if it is possible to see the nest from the inside. Only on rare occasions will Wasp Nest Control Bury need to go in to your loft or attic.

Wasp Nest Control Bury are often called to wasp nests where the home-owner has made an effort to seal the entrance to the nest will expanding foam or mastic. This is often a very bad idea and as well as making the task a lot more difficult for Wasp Nest Control Bury, it’s going to probably force the wasps straight into the house.

It is best to call Wasp Nest Control Bury to eliminate the nest when you first notice it. Wasp nests treated after mid-September have begun to make the new queens and additional extra-cost work for instance smoking or fogging the loft area may very well be necessary to eradicate these.

Due to biology of wasp nests it is unlikely that you will see wasps before late May or early June unless it was a remarkably warm spring. ‘Wasps’ seen flying around the property in April or May will invariably prove to be bees.

Wasp Nest Control Bury aren’t going to eliminate solitary bees as they are harmless and cannot sting.

Where a ‘wasps’ nest suddenly appears in your garden, usually hanging from the branch of a tree, chances are they aren’t wasps but honey bees. If this happens to you call Wasp Nest Control Bury as we will almost certainly be able to re-home them with a beekeeper. We charge £75 for this service as we must break our day to get the bees to their new home as quickly as possible.

Wasp Nest Control Bury charge £32.00 to exterminate a wasp nest or £44.50 for postcode areas L, CH and CW.

To compare the following are the prices charged by some local councils correct as at May 2012.

Blackpool Council £40

Fylde Borough Council £63

Preston City Council – Don’t Provide A Service

Blackburn Borough Council £53

Bolton Council £52

Wigan Council £49

Salford City Council £46.96

Manchester City Council £54

Trafford Borough Council £55 under gutter level, £75 higher than gutter level.

Stockport Borough Council £42.00

Tameside Council £56.64

Rochdale Borough Council £51

Cheshire East Council £56

Cheshire West Council £57

Wirral Borough Council £46

Liverpool City Council £60

Sefton Council – Don’t Provide A Service

BOLTON, BLACKROD, FARNWORTH, HORWICH, WESTHOUGHTON, EGERTON, LOSTOCK, MIDDLEBROOK, ASTLEY BRIDGE, BRADSHAW, BROMLEY CROSS, DAUBHILL, DEANE, HALLIWELL, HARWOOD, KEARSLEY, PRESTOLEE, TOPPINGS,BURY, PRESTWICH, RADCLIFFE, RAMSBOTTOM, FISHPOOL, AINSWORTH, CRUMPSALL, GREENMOUNT, HOLLINS, TOTTINGTON, WHITEFIELD, WALMERSLEY, HAWKSHAW

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Bolton Wasp Nests Destroyed £32.00 Set Fee 7Days per Week

The Bugman — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:33:07 +0000

Bolton Wasp

Nests Destroyed

£32.00

01204 689361

Wasp Nest Control Bolton destroy wasps nests everywhere in the locations of Manchester, Trafford, Lancashire, North Cheshire and Merseyside for only a fixed charge of just £32 or £44.50 for persons located in postcode areas L, CW and CH.

If your home is outside our area of operations kindly visit our FIND A WASP NEST CONTROLLER page to identify a reputable company in your town.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton operate seven days weekly in the wasp season of June – November and we never charge more for call outs in the evening hours or at weekend.

In order to remove a wasp nest call Wasp Nest Control Bolton we answer our phones from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm and this includes weekends.

Throughout The Uk Wasp Nest Control Bolton treat three major species of wasps. The Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), the German wasp (Vespula Germanica) and the so called ‘Euro Wasp’ (Dolichovespula media), a recent arrival from the continent.

In practise there is no need for Wasp Nest Control Bolton to identify the kind of wasp we are working with as they all react to exactly the same procedure.

Contrary to urban myth Wasp Nest Control Bolton definitely don’t deal with hornets (Vespula crabro) in the North West because we just do not find them this far north. There is a local myth in this area that hornets are much smaller than wasps when in fact they are many times bigger.

The biology among all species of wasps destroyed by Wasp Nest Control Bolton is the same.

The wasp nest commences by just a single wasp queen during the early spring. On awaking from her hibernation in late March or early April she will feed herself on aphids and grubs before starting to build the nest.

She forms a cocoon a bit smaller than a golf ball using ‘wasp paper’, produced by chewing rotten wood and mixing it with her saliva.

Inside the rudimentary nest she will lay several eggs, usually under 20 and tend to these baby wasps until they’re able to fly. As soon as the first group of wasps are flying she goes into the nest and never appears again. Her job now is to lay eggs and she is taken care of by the workers.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton will receive many calls during the early summer from people who see these early nests in outhouses and garden sheds. Even these small nests really need to be treated with care as even the queen can sting.

The construction of the nest picks up tempo in June and early July as the nests can double in dimensions seemingly every day.

The eventual proportions of the nest seems to be governed by the weather but usually is going to be about the size of a medicine ball. Wasp Nest Control Bolton have however seen wasp nests larger than Borough Council wheelie bin.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton will are often asked ‘what good do wasps do?’. In fact for the majority of of the summer they prey on garden pests including greenfly and caterpillars, so they are actually friends to the gardener.

For most of the summer the wasps created by the nest are sterile females but as autumn approaches the nest will start to develop new queens and males. Generally a nest will create about 2000 new queens.

Because the wasp stinger is a modified ovipositor, male wasps can not sting, but even Wasp Nest Control Bolton aren’t able to tell a male from a female, so better to avoid.

The males mate together with the new queens and as the autumn months turns to wintry weather the males as well as the sterile workers all die and newly mated queens pick an appropriate hibernation site to spend the wintertime before commencing the comlete process again in the spring.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton are often asked to remove old wasp nests. That is neither desirable nor needed. The wasp nest is spent and will never be used again. There is absolutely no need to remove a wasp nest, even if it is possible to access it, which they rarely are.

Each time a worker wasp feeds a wasp grub in the nest the wasp grub produces a sweet sticky substance that the worker wasps crave. However as we move into late summer the nest no longer develops grubs therefore the workers cannot have their ‘fix’ of the sweet substance. It’s always at this stage of the season that they will now start to be aggravating, switching from the protein diet of aphids and grubs to a diet of sweet foods for example fruit.

This is the reason they begin to cluster around your barbecues and beer gardens, looking for sweet food and becoming a total nuisance.

It is not advisable to make an effort to get rid of a wasp nest oneself as it’s possible to sustain lots of stings very quickly. Wasps tend to be at their most dangerous within the immediate vicinity of their nests.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton will eradicate your nest for you by injecting an insecticide in the entrance hole. The returning wasps will carry this powder throughout the nest and then the complete nest will be dead in a short time.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton is going to do the process from outside your home regardless if you are able to see the nest from inside. Only on rare occasions will Wasp Nest Control Bolton have to go in your loft or attic.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton are often called to wasp nests where home-owner has made an effort to seal the entrance to the nest will expanding foam or mastic. This is actually a very bad idea and as well as making the work much more difficult for Wasp Nest Control Bolton, it’ll probably force the wasps inside the house.

It is best to call Wasp Nest Control Bolton to destroy the nest as soon as you see it. Wasp nests treated after mid-September have begun to produce the new queens and additional extra-cost work such as smoking or fogging the loft area might be necessary to get rid of these.

Due to biology of wasp nests it is very unlikely that you will see wasps before late May or early June unless it’s been an exceedingly warm spring. ‘Wasps’ seen flying around the home in April or May will invariably turn out to be bees.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton do not destroy solitary bees since they’re benign and can’t sting.

If the ‘wasps’ nest suddenly appears in your garden, usually hanging in a branch of a tree, then they will not be wasps but honey bees. If this happens to you call Wasp Nest Control Bolton as we will in all probability have the know-how to re-home them with a beekeeper. We charge £75 for this service as we must break our day to get the bees to their new home as quickly as possible.

Wasp Nest Control Bolton charge £32.00 to exterminate a wasp nest or £44.50 for postcode areas L, CH and CW.

For comparison here are the prices charged by some local local authorities correct as at May 2012.

Blackpool Council £40

Fylde Borough Council £63

Preston City Council – Do Not Have A Service

Blackburn Borough Council £53

Bolton Council £52

Wigan Council £49

Salford City Council £46.96

Manchester City Council £54

Trafford Borough Council £55 below gutter level, £75 above gutter level.

Stockport Borough Council £42.00

Tameside Council £56.64

Rochdale Borough Council £51

Cheshire East Council £56

Cheshire West Council £57

Wirral Borough Council £46

Liverpool City Council £60

Sefton Council – Don’t Supply A Service

WIGAN, PEMBERTON, MARUS BRIDGE, NEWTOWN, HAIGH, SHEVINGTON, ABRAM, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, ASPULL, ATHERTON, BLACKROD, GOLBORNE, HINDLEY INCE IN MAKERFIELD, LEIGH, LOWTON COMMON, MARYLEBONE, ORELL, PLATT BRIDGE, STANDISH, SWINLEY, TYLDESLEY, SHEVINGTON MOOR,BOLTON, BLACKROD, FARNWORTH, HORWICH, WESTHOUGHTON, EGERTON, LOSTOCK, MIDDLEBROOK, ASTLEY BRIDGE, BRADSHAW, BROMLEY CROSS, DAUBHILL, DEANE, HALLIWELL, HARWOOD, KEARSLEY, PRESTOLEE, TOPPINGS

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