RI, MA EHS Pest Control Blog

We run into to many situations every year with clients that unknowing strand the young of an animal they wish to evict from their home.

It is important to understand some basic breeding biology when you attempt to remove the adult(s) parents from your home or other structure. These animals usually have distinct breeding seasons. If you remove the attending parents, these young animals may die or wander into your home in a final attempt to survive.

We get many frantic calls every year when customers hear cries from these stranded animals or worse, the animals die and an odor or fly infestation develops.

Please remember this when you set a trap for a mammal or seal a dryer vent after shooing out the adult nesting birds.

Either research their habits and breeding biology or call us at 877-507-0698!

John Stellberger
President - Environmental Health Services, Inc.

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA 

“The lord in his wisdom made the fly. Then forgot to tell us why.” ~ Ogden Nash

The reproductive capacity of flies is tremendous. Thankfully for us they can never be fully realized. If you took just a pair of flies in April and they were all progenitors (originator or direct ancestor), and they all survived (flies typically only live 30 days) until August you would have 191,010,000,000,000,000,000 flies!!!! That is in just four months!

To give you a visual idea of how many flies that is, it is enough flies to cover the entire earth 2.5 feet deep!

Unfortunately flies are downplayed in society ala “Waiter there is a fly in my soup. What’s he doing? I believe the backstroke!” The hard fact is that flies transmit over 25 diseases and are VERY serious pests especially in food handling facilities. The risk of bacterial transmission is enormous. Call EHS at 877-507.0698 to protect your brand!

George Williams,
General Manager - Staff Entomologist

Pest Control, MA , Pest Control, RI