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So, why do Las Vegas residents think they don’t need Pest Control Service? A lot of residents in Las Vegas are a transplant from somewhere else. Different locations across the country have different types of pests, some more prominently noticed than others. When new residents move to Las Vegas they are unaware of the pest issues that occur in our very hot summer months. Pest Control Service is recommended on a year round basis. Because Las Vegas doesn’t have extremely cold temperatures, there are always some pests that are active. In the early months of the year, ants make their presence known in our homes kitchens and bathrooms. During February and March, pigeons start mating and their activity increases significantly. From April through October, cockroaches are extremely active outside of your home and if you do not have a Pest Control service, they will be inside as well. October starts an increase in spiders including black widows. Also in October and continuing through November, December and January are rodents, mice and roof rats.

Throughout the year, there is always pest activity. Whether its cockroaches, crickets, box elder bugs, black widow spiders, mice or roof rats, All Las Vegas residents need a Pest Control Service. Remember, just because you don’t see cockroaches in the winter time doesn’t mean they aren’t there. Intrusion Pest Control provides Pest Control Service to Las Vegas area including Henderson, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Summerlin, Anthem and Aliante. Call Intrusion Pest Control today for a FREE Pest Control Service quote. We look forward to your call. 702-280-4549

I received a phone call the other day. A woman, we will call her Melanie, speaking frantically on the phone talks about a bug issue she has. Melanie lives in one unit of a four unit apartment building in Las Vegas that she moved into two months ago. She noticed a few cockroaches running around her kitchen counter. She didn’t think much of it. She contacted her landlord and made them aware of the pest control issue. The landlord contacted a pest control company to take care of the issue. The pest control company came out, sprayed a little outside the house, applied a little baiting inside the kitchen area and that was it. Melanie said the pest control company was at her apartment for about 10 minutes. This was 2 months ago. Remember back to the beginning of this story. How many German Cockroaches might she have now 2 months later? And how long were these cockroaches in her unit before she moved in? The pest control company which was called out, did not take care of the job. Now the resident is living with thousands of German cockroaches and no end in sight.

I am talking with Melanie on a daily basis. The current obstacle Melanie is trying to overcome is dealing with the owner of the multi unit apartment building. I am setting up an inspection of the unit with Melanie and trying to set up a phone conversation or meeting with the homeowner.

Intrusion Pest Control prides itself on using the most up to date methods for pest control. Intrusion Pest Control would not have handled this situation this way. We would have first done a proper inspection, which would take longer than 10 minutes, identified the pest we are dealing with and implemented a plan to action to remove the German Cockroaches.

If you think you may have German Cockroaches or would like a free estimate for pest control, call Intrusion Pest Control right now. We look forward to your call. 702-280-4549

By Martiga Lohn, The Associated Press
posted: 22 August 2007 05:02 pm ET
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons.

Inspectors began documenting the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near downtown Minneapolis two decades ago. Experts say the corrosive guano deposited all over the span’s framework helped the steel beams rust faster.

Although investigators have yet to identify the cause of the bridge’s Aug. 1 collapse, which killed at least 13 people and injured about 100, the pigeon problem is one of many factors that dogged the structure.

“There is a coating of pigeon dung on steel with nest and heavy buildup on the inside hollow box sections,” inspectors wrote in a 1987-1989 report.

In 1996, screens were installed over openings in the bridge’s beams to keep pigeons from nesting there, but that didn’t prevent the building of droppings elsewhere.

Pigeon droppings contain ammonia and acids, said chemist Neal Langerman, an officer with the health and safety division of the American Chemical Society. If the dung isn’t washed away, it dries out and turns into a concentrated salt. When water gets in and combines with the salt and ammonia, it creates small electrochemical reactions that rust the steel underneath.

“Every time you get a little bit of moisture there, you wind up having a little bit of electrochemistry occurring and you wind up with corrosion,” said Langerman. “Over a long term, it might in fact cause structural weaknesses.”

Langerman emphasized that he wasn’t saying pigeon dung factored into the collapse of the 40-year-old bridge. “Let’s let the highway transportation and safety people do their job,” he said.

The problem is familiar to bridge inspectors everywhere.

The Colorado Department of Transportation spent so much time cleaning pigeon manure off bridges that it is embarking on a two-year research project looking for ways to keep pigeons away from its spans.

“It can be damaging to our structures because it’s slightly acidic and it has other compounds in it that can dissolve especially things like concrete,” said Patricia Martinek, the agency’s environmental research manager.

Pigeon guano isn’t just a danger to the bridges.

In the Denver area, the Colorado DOT pays outside environmental specialists to clean bridges wearing full biohazard suits with respirators because of heightened fears about bird flu and other diseases, said Rob Haines, who supervises maintenance there.

Keeping pigeons off bridges usually requires a multi-pronged strategy that can include netting to block holes and surfaces, spikes to keep them from landing, and sometimes poisoning, shooting or trapping the birds, said John Hart, a Grand Rapids, Minn.-based wildlife biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The problem is that pigeons are naturally drawn to bridges and tall buildings since they’re descended from cliff-dwellers, said Karen Purcell, who heads Project PigeonWatch at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Bridges offer shelter from predators and flat surfaces for nesting and roosting.

“It’s a nice fit for them,” Purcell said.