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July 15, 2019

Birds: Beauty turning into Nuisance

They are the inspiration to the path of freedom, they are an inspiration to dreams of touching the sky, they adorn the sky with their beauty, and they are an inspiration to flight. They are the reason behind the invention of airplanes. They are Birds.

The species which decorate the skies have gradually but surely become a nuisance for humans.

The birds that most often come into contact and conflict with humans are sparrows, pigeons, and starlings. When they decide to nest and roost on the roof, problems arise. They want a safe place to lay a nest. The roof provides them with a good safe living environment.

Sparrows, pigeons, and starlings are very messy when they are making their nests. They can spread out over several feet interfering with the chimney pipes and vents that are on the roof. It can be easy to spot if the pest birds have gotten a start on their nest building; protruding sticks and other debris, along with bird droppings. Sparrows are known to enter hidden away areas like broken roof tiles and can fit into an area the size of an egg.

There are also health hazards involved. The bird droppings and debris if by chance come in contact with people, they can cause infection. Similarly, if the chimneys and vents are blocked by the twigs and pest debris, gases like carbon monoxide may not escape and create a huge ducting problem leading to poisonous gas accumulation in confined places like the kitchen, living room, etc.

Fleas, mites, and ticks are also commonly found in bird droppings. Inhaling the spores that are released when the bird dropping and nests are disturbed can cause very dangerous conditions such as histoplasmosis. Histoplasmosis is an infection that can vary in symptoms and seriousness. It usually affects the lungs. The lung infection can be short-term to chronic. Eliminating pest bird droppings is serious business and is an issue that should not be dismissed.

‘We’re getting concerned’: Bird waste causing damage to major bridge on Oregon coast

July 11, 2019

ASTORIA, OR (KPTV) – Thousands of birds have taken over a major bridge on the Oregon coast, causing a major headache for the Department of Transportation.

According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, as many as 10,000 double crested cormorants have set up shop under the Astoria-Megler bridge, building nests, and leaving behind a major mess.

“There’s so much now, excrement covering the bridge, we’re getting concerned about that,” Lou Torres, a spokesperson for ODOT said.

Cormorant guano, it turns out, is highly acidic, so the droppings they leave behind on the bridge eat away at the bridge’s paint.

The most recent paint job on the bridge, which was just finished in 2018, cost close to $75 million.

In London, damage caused by pigeon droppings to monuments in Trafalgar Square is well documented.

The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission in 1986 calculated that the annual cost for cleaning statuary was £14,000 and the annual cost for cleaning paving was £91,000.

Anti-perching wires, spikes, trapping have all been implemented but have failed in keeping the birds away from the structures. An effective solution is required to save the big bucks spent on the maintenance of these structures.

There is a solution with C Tech Corporation to keep the birds away from perching and roosting.

Combirepel^TM Bird repellent gel lacquer is the product produced by C Tech Corporation to prevent the menace caused by birds. This product is specially designed to prevent birds perching and roosting.

It is available in the form of concentrate gel lacquer. The product causes the bird’s pain receptors associated with taste. Some birds use their sense of smell through which they recognize that the product is a threat. The product is specially designed to prevent perching and roosting of birds. Repellent evokes a physiological effect which the birds associated with a sensory cue and then learn to avoid it.

The product is anti-corrosive and water resistant and has no effect of UV light on it. The product is transparent and is compatible with most of the surfaces which are easy to apply.

Thus, using the bird’s sensory mechanism, we can get rid of them without causing them any physical harm.

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July 6, 2019July 5, 2019

Squirrels and power outages

If your power has ever gone out on a beautiful day, you may have been the victim of a squirrelly attack.

That’s because squirrels are responsible for an impressive number of electrical issues each year.

The theory is that that endless growing of teeth of the rodents makes chewing an innate need, which is a must because if they don’t have that innate need, teeth will grow through the roof of their mouth.

The usage of soy or plant-based insulation around wires is another reason why the squirrels and other rodents are attracted towards the wires and cables.

In St. Augustine, Florida, a power outage caused by a squirrel damaging key components at a utility station led to a sewage backup, ultimately resulting in 60,000 gallons of untreated sewage flowing into the San Sebastian River.

In Richmond, Virginia, a squirrel short-circuited a substation, causing a massive power outage which threw sections of Richmond into darkness, disabling traffic signals at several major intersections, closing businesses and schools – including Virginia Commonwealth University – for most of the day.

Few other power outage stories are as below:

Delayed Kentucky internet project faces new squirrel setback

By Associated Press │June 19 2019

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A project that would bring high-speed internet across Kentucky will be delayed because company representatives say an “abundance” of squirrels have chewed through wiring.

The Courier-Journal reports lawmakers in the state’s capitol questioned reports of ravenous squirrels Tuesday, blocking officials in charge of the KentuckyWired project from borrowing an additional $110 million.

KentuckyWired was started in 2015 under former Gov. Steve Beshear to boost Kentucky’s internet infrastructure. Officials are now saying squirrels damaged cable that was supposed to be up and running in April.

Squirrel causes power outage in Athens

by WTVC

June 16^th 2019

ATHENS, Tenn. — Power has been restored after a squirrel causes an outage in Athens.

Athens Utility Board (AUB) posted on Facebook this morning, that customers in the area near North Athens Substation on Hwy. 305 (Ingleside Avenue) heard a loud bang, and then power dipped and went out completely.

They say the first responding technician found that a squirrel had got into a pole-top insulator on Old Niota Road near the substation.

That when he met his split-second fate, it burned and destroyed the wire that ties the insulator to the phase of conductor wire.

When this happened, the phase of conductor fell across the cross arms on the top of the pole and went to ground.

AUB says this caused high amperage faults and opened the substation breaker

The phase of conductor was destroyed, frayed and crews had to make a new splice before tying the wire back into service.

The power producing industry has long felt the impact of outages caused by animals entering – and disrupting – substations.

Outages cost the U.S. economy an estimated $80-188 billion every year in lost commercial activity, lowered productivity, consumer dissatisfaction and more.

Utilities are recognizing that while the costs to do actual substation repairs are significant, the cost to repair a reputation is much higher – and they have taken steps over the years to install measures to keep climbing animals at bay.

Engineers and technicians have attempted to prevent or discourage incursions by using an array of methods: squirrel guards, heat shrink tapes and tubing, spinning line guards, screening, greases, pole covers, lights, insulator coatings, decoys, and even live trapping.

These measures have had some temporary success, but they haven’t provided permanent solutions. And hence, an effective and durable solution is the need of the hour.

C Tech Corporation can offer a solution to overcome the damage caused by squirrels. Combirepel^TM is an anti-rodent, anti-insect and animal aversive repellent which is extremely low in toxicity and extremely low hazard, environmentally safe solution. It is engineered using a unique set of complex compounds. It follows 6 pronged strategies which are extremely effective on rodents like the squirrel, rat, beaver, gopher, marmot, etc.

Combirepel^TM is available in the form of a masterbatch, liquid concentrate, lacquer, wood polish additives, and sprays.

The masterbatch can be incorporated in cable sheathing while it is manufactured. The product in the form of liquid concentrate can be diluted in paints and organic solvents and applied to cables. The lacquer which is a topical application can be directly applied to the already installed wires and cables, cabinets and transformer boxes. The wood polish additives can be mixed with the wood polish and applied on wooden surfaces.

Our newly developed product, Rodrepel™ Rodent Repellent Spray and Combirepel™ pest repellent spray is an easy to use product which can be sprayed on wires and cables, electronic appliances, cabinets, to avoid the rodents from entering them.

Combirepel^TM is cost-effective, inert, and thermally stable and does not degrade on exposure to heat and sunlight. It is RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, REACH, NEA, EU BPR, APVMA compliant and FIFRA exempted.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat the pest menace.

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
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July 3, 2019July 3, 2019

Rodents: New Member of your Family

Rats and mice cause 8% of all house and building fires in the U.S. In U.S. average 1.6 million home and building catch fires each year. In the last 10 years, more than 194,000 people have been injured in home and building fires, and almost 37,000 people have died. Rodents started 8% of all these fires by chewing through electrical wiring and causing a short circuit. Plastic insulation surrounding electrical wiring exists because electricity is quite hot when it goes through wires. The insulation protects nearby objects from getting overheated. However, when a rat or other rodent has been going after your wires, they leave nothing left but the hot, exposed metal. From there, it’s only a matter of time before the wire either short circuits, causing a spark, or heats up and causes something nearby to ignite. Usually, household insulation or other debris that are stirred up by the rodents are what sets fire.

In the U.S., 30% of all homes contain unwanted rodents. In fact, these rats and mice are known as ‘commensal’ rodents. The term means ‘eating at the same table with’ humans, and they’re called that because they thrive in close proximity to people.

All rodents have prominent, continually growing incisor teeth. Because these teeth never stop growing, rats and mice find pleasure gnawing every day to wear down their teeth. If they don’t, the incisors grow too big to gnaw food, and they can´t feed properly. That’s why they like to make their home where there’s plenty to chew on: between walls, in drop ceilings and subfloors, in attics and garages, behind appliances, and in pantries.

One pair of mice can make 15,000 more mice in just one year. In addition to starting fires, rats and mice carry 35 known diseases, some of them are fatal, so it’s important to get them out of your home pronto. The solutions such as poison and traps are dangerous to children and pets, leave a mess for you to clean up, and don’t work all that well.

Let us look at the below article

Monster rats the size of CATS are roaming the streets – and they aren’t afraid of humans

Giant rats have been running wild through a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand
One man saw six to 10 rats running up a bank, 30 metres from the shops
The infestation is said to be a result of locals feeding the wild chickens

By Charlotte Karp For Daily Mail Australia | 13 June 2019

Giant rats that are as big as cats are terrorizing people in Auckland – and they aren’t afraid of humans, locals say.

The monster rodents are running wild through Auckland, New Zealand, and authorities are struggling to get the situation under control, Stuff reported.

A local woman said she had to get rats removed from her roof and that she’d seen rats running up the road for the first time in 11 years, while local man Rob Wadmore managed to record the animals running around near a car park.

‘I saw an estimate of about six to 10 rats running up the bank, they didn’t seem scared of human beings .. they were 30 metres from the shops,’ Mr Wadmore said.

Cat-sized rats have been allegedly terrorising a small village, feasting on food scraps and spreading disease

*Cat-sized rats have been allegedly terrorising a small village, feasting on food scraps and spreading disease*

RATTED OUT

Family-of-five driven out of their home by plague of ‘2ft long’ U-bend swimming monster rats

The 36-year-old dad says he saw one of the enormous rats swimming back up the toilet

By Annabel Murphy │16th April 2019

A FAMILY have been driven out of their home by a plague of U-bend swimming monster rats.

John Rising, 36, said he and partner Joanne had no option but to quit the rented home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with their three sons.

He said they were terrified that the rodents, some nearly 2ft long, would bite them and spread a killer disease with their germs and urine.

John has killed several rats but says more infest the mid-terrace property rented from Cheltenham Borough Homes.

He said: “It started about two months ago and it’s got so bad that we have moved out because the rats were in the kitchen.

“About a month ago my 14-year-old son was in the bathroom and saw one actually in the toilet.

“He called me and I rushed to have a look. I could see the rat’s tail and bum swimming back out of toilet, back up the U-bend.”

C Tech Corporation has come up with a solution called Combirepel™ which will put people at ease by protecting their house from rats and mice. Combirepel™ is a product resulting from smart technology and green chemistry. Rodrepel™ is an extremely low-toxic, extremely low hazardous and environment-friendly aversive and repels all rodents/animals. It is an anti-rodent aversive specially developed for a range of polymeric applications including films, wires, cables, etc. It is also available in the liquid Concentrate form which can be mixed with the paints and lacquer which can be coated on the surface to keep the rodents at bay. Rodents are further restricted from biting the applications treated with our products due to advanced mechanisms.

The newly developed product is in the form of a spray which can be sprayed on any surface to protect it from pest damage. The spray is compatible with most of the surfaces.

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
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June 21, 2019

Restaurants attracting rodents

What could be the biggest threat to the restaurants?

Could it be the terrorist attack or could it be the flood from the river alongside!?

To make you wonder, it would be none of the above but an attack by pests!

The presence of pests in restaurants is intolerable. It is just not an unpleasant sight, but is an unhygienic condition as well!

Restaurants are the best source for the rodents to have a great meal for themselves. No restaurant, not even the best in the world, can escape from reports of a mouse infestation and once the mouse is out of the bag, the damage seems to be as news spreads through the press and through word of mouth. These days, eatery owners need to be more vigilant than ever. Every restaurant has the potential to attract mice. The mice enter the kitchen and searching for food in the garbage and a place where they can find food. Once this mouse enters they create a great mess. Rodents are not the only nuisance but can cause property damage and transmit diseases.

Rodents are associated with a number of health risks; these diseases can be spread to humans directly or indirectly through contact with rodents feces, urine, saliva, rodent bites or fleas. Mice and rats also are a potential source of allergens. Their droppings, dander and shed hair can cause people to sneeze and experience other allergic reactions. Mice will chew on the insulation around wires, this has been known to cause a real threat of fire. Mice will even build their nests in large electrical appliances, again chewing on or through insulation and wiring, which can cause the appliance to short circuit, or lead to the risk of fire.

In the past century more than 10 million died from rodent-borne diseases, the major diseases caused by mice are:

Hantavirus: This virus can be transmitted when rodent waste is stirred up

Salmonella: Small rodents known to frequently carry the salmonella bacteria in their digestive tract, it spread through contact with rodent waste

Rat-bite fever: Rat-bite fever can occur in people who have been bitten or infected by the rat or another animal that has been contaminated by a rodent carrying disease

Removing rodents from the trap or poison like pest control will not keep them out of our house or restaurants as there should be a permanent solution to it.

Evidence for the mice in restaurants,

Chinese restaurant so infested with mice that rodent droppings found on food

The restaurant in Manchester ended up forking out £15,000 in fines after droppings were also found on work surfaces and food packages

By Sophie Halle-Richards │1^st June 2019

A Chinatown restaurant that claimed to be of “high quality” was forced to temporarily shut after it was found to be infested with rodents.

Hunan Restaurant in Manchester’s Chinese district was so badly infested that mouse droppings were spotted on its work surfaces and food.

The extent to which the restaurant was infested was only laid bare when Manchester Council’s Environmental Health Officer carried out an inspection.

During the inspection, food packaging was found to have been gnawed on by mice, and mouse droppings were also found on food stock and near food containers.

The inspection also highlighted poor hygiene, with food building up around kitchen equipment, dirty air filters and unclean surfaces.

Access holes for rodents were found in the floor, around pipework and under doors – allowing mice to roam free about the restaurant.

Local country club restaurant shut down after the inspector finds evidence of rodents

A state health inspector temporarily closed the restaurant at an (Orange Country) country club after finding evidence of rodents.

The Rio Pinar Country Club restaurant, called Champions Grill on its website, was closed Dec. 6 after the inspector found dozens of rodent droppings in the kitchen and in storage areas.

The club is located at 8600 El Prado Drive in eastern Orange County.

“More than 20 dark fresh moist rodent droppings on shelves in the storage room in the kitchen area,” one of the violations read, according to the report from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

The report noted rodent droppings under a dish machine, behind a cooler and in various other areas on the floor and in a plastic bucket.

There were also scratch marks along walls.

The evidence of rodents was among 31 violations the restaurant at the Rio Pinar Country Club totaled during the inspection, including five high-priority violations.

The restaurant was closed for two days until being allowed to reopen Dec. 8 after a follow-up inspection.

We at C Tech Corporation are in a unique position to provide solutions to the problems caused by these creatures.

At C Tech Corporation we make use of Mother Nature’s gift of senses to these pests in developing an extremely low-toxic & low-hazardous formulation!

Combirepel™ is an extremely low-toxic, extremely low-hazardous rodent and insect aversive.

Combirepel™ is a perfect blend of smart technology and green chemistry.

The product triggers a fear response in rodents thus protecting the application. It causes severe temporary distress to the mucous membrane of the rodents due to which the pest stays away from the application. The product triggers an unpleasant reaction in case if the pest tries to gnaw away the application. After encountering the above-mentioned emotions, the animal instinctively perceives it with something it should stay away from and stores this information for future reference. The fact that certain rodents are repelled is mimicked by other rodents as well. Thus, the other rodents too stay away from the applications. The unpleasant experience is imprinted within the animal’s memory and passed on to its progeny.

The product is compliant with RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, APVMA, NEA, and REACH and is FIFRA exempted. Our eco-friendly products do not kill the target species but only repel them.

The products are available in the form of a masterbatch which can be incorporated in pipes, films, cables, etc. while manufacturing. This would result in the final cable or wire being rodent repellent. This would be an efficient way of deterring the rodents from chewing the cables and wires and thus negate the possibility of a short circuit.

While the Combirepel™ liquid concentrate, when diluted in paints, can be used to paint the interior and exterior of the restaurants. It can be applied in the kitchen and food storage areas in restaurants.

Combirepel™ lacquer can be coated topically over the applications which need protection. It can be applied to a variety of surfaces like wood, concrete, metal, polymer, ceramic, etc.

Our Combirepel^TM pest repellent spray is an easy to use product. The spray can be sprayed on infested areas and equipment that need protection from rodents.

Our products provide a safe and environmentally friendly solution to avoid rodent infestation.

By using our products, you can get an effective and long-lasting solution against pest nuisance.

You could thus contribute to us in using products which are eco-friendly thus causing no damage to the environment.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat the pest menace.

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
http://www.combirepel.com/

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June 15, 2019

Gas pipes- New Targets for Rodents

A gas sector, from the production of gas to its transportation, gives utmost priority to the safety aspects concerning it. Gas is commonly used in the workplace for heating the work environment and water supplies, cooking and processing products. The gas itself can come from a number of sources including natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and methane. These fuel gases are inflammable and toxic, and so safety measures are taken to prevent explosion or poisoning.

Gas can be supplied either piped into the premises from the mains supply or a storage tank, or in small cylinders used close to the appliance with a flexible hose connection. Gas gathering application involves transportation of gas via pipelines, and so does our home cooking system- be it LPG cylinder or PNG pipeline. Traditionally steel pipelines were used to carry the gas but pipelines composed of the polymer have certainly outweighed them in all aspects of the selection of pipe material. Polymers are corrosion resistant, electrical and thermal insulators, fatigue resistant, chemically inert, lightweight, eco-friendly and cost-efficient. Durability and flexibility are the two most important factors supporting the use of polymer pipelines. Polymers like PP, HDPE, LDPE, and PVC are the most widely used polymer materials for the distribution of natural gas.

Are we still safe?

Several incidences have been noted in the past where rodents have damaged these polymer pipelines causing unfortunate fatalities. On March 4^th, 2016 there was an explosion due to a rat-eaten LPG pipe. The accident was reported at Tonca in Panaji. According to the report, In Panaji 10 flats, located in the Kamat Complex – Phase II, Tonca, were damaged, at 5.30 a.m. on Thursday, after an explosion occurred due to LPG leakage from a stove connecting the pipe. The LPG company officials found that the connecting pipe was eaten up by rats. Another fatal accident that took place was in Bengaluru city on November 14. Family of three succumbed to injuries they had suffered in a gas cylinder explosion at their house in Belathur Colony in Kadugodi on November 7. According to the officials, the hosepipe connecting the cylinder and stove was damaged as a rat had bitten it off. Shibin had cut that particular part and fixed it.

According to TNN, In 2013, Rat-nibbled a gas pipe which leads to an explosion, causing injury to 5 members of a family. This horrifying accident took place in Kondawa district of Pune. According to the officials, the gas had leaked through a 2mm hole on the rubber tube that a mouse had nibbled. The poorly ventilated kitchen added to the explosion’s intensity.

Yet another accident that took place was in the year 2007, August 8 where the Gas blast killed a pensioner which was caused after rats that gnawed through a lead pipe in her house.

There are more than 2000 different rodent species. The classification of rodents include rats, mouse, beaver, gopher, paca, hamster, squirrel, etc. Rodents are flexible enough to go through even the slimmest of gaps. Rodents being ubiquitous creatures are present in large numbers at various locations and sometimes also find their way to gas pipelines causing a lot of loss and damage. They have incisors which grow continuously throughout their life. To keep them in check, rodents chew anything they find or smell attractive including our gas pipes. Curbing them is not an option as it is hard to execute, time taking and also bad for the food chain.

Prevent them? But how? There is an efficient solution that C Tech Corporation, India has come up with. They have a unique product known as Combirepel™ which solves our biggest grievances. So let us look at some of the salient features of Combirepel™ and how it drives these mischievous rodents away from our homes, offices, and industries.

Combirepel™ , an eco-friendly, extremely low toxic and extremely low hazard rodent and insect aversive can be incorporated in the gas tubing and pipelines, hindering the rodents from attacking them. It is an anti-rodent, anti-insect additive available in the form of masterbatches specially developed for a range of polymeric and coating applications including films, pipes, wires, and cables. It can be incorporated into nearly all base polymers like HDPE, LDPE, PVC, PE, etc.

It is also available in the form of liquid concentrate, lacquer, and sprays.

The mechanism followed by our product is repellence by attacking their olfactory senses and it does not aid to kill the target species. The products do not interfere with the working of the end application it is used in. They are stable at high temperatures; they do not leach out or produce any toxic fumes and have a long shelf life of up to 50 years as per the application.

The liquid concentrate can be blended with paints and organic solvents and be applied to the pipes. The lacquer can be directly applied to the pipes as a protective coating to protect it from a rodent attack.

The sprays are an easy to use product which can be sprayed near the gas pipelines and affected areas to repel the rats.

The product is compliant with ROHS, ROHS2, ROHS3, REACH, APVMA, NEA, EU-BPR, and FIFRA exempted.

The products do not interfere with the working of the end application it is used in. They are stable at high temperatures; they do not leach out or produce any toxic fumes.

It looks as if this green chemistry-based product is tailor-made for this application. Don’t you feel?

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat the pest menace.

Also, visit our websites:

http://www.ctechcorporation.com/
http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
http://www.combirepel.com/

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June 12, 2019

The wood-boring pest

When you noticed a sprinkling of something that looked like sawdust on the floor by the door or in your wooden cupboards and cabinets and its drawers and discovered a few tiny round holes in the wood frame, your mind went to the obvious place: termites. Or maybe it could be carpenter ants?

Right?

While termites and carpenter ants are the wood pests that homeowners typically hear the most about, they’re not the only ones out there. One of the biggest dangers to the wood in the home comes from a bug you’d probably never guess: the wood-boring beetle.

A beetle?

That’s right.

Wood borers are tiny beetles whose larvae feed extensively on the wood. The wood worms make tiny pin size holes on the surface of wooden furniture or surface while emerging. Those tiny holes which you see on wood surface are actually the exit -holes where the adult wood borer has left.

These beetles are known for boring small holes in wood both in inside and outside environments. They can be difficult to detect as they bore through the inside of a wooden window and door frames, hardwood floors, and even wooden furniture.

They are also referred to as ‘Powderpost beetles’ since they reduce wood to a flour-like powder.

Do the rats repel us, or do we repel rats?

Rats have been a problem for a while now. Have you ever thought though that these pests might be inside your home and you may be completely unaware of it? If you think that the chances of it happening are slim then you should reconsider. We have some really disturbing news for you about the same.

Glasgow rat problem ‘alarmingly high’ as city sees six times more callouts than Edinburgh

Wednesday 22 May 2019

Glasgow City Council were asked to deal with rats both inside houses and at street level more than 14,000 times since the start of 2016, a freedom of information request has revealed.

The numbers are staggering when compared to similar statistics in Edinburgh with the council receiving 17 complaints in connection with rats on average every day.

The capital only dealt with 1,800 callouts connected to street-level rats in the same time period, compared to Glasgow’s near 11,000 requests.

Govanhill in the south of the city is by far the worst affected area of Glasgow by rats and is home to a third of the worst thirty rat-infested streets.

Allison Street in the area had 68 complaints about rats in living areas, almost double the next highest, Cathcart Street, also in Govanhill.

‘More rats than residents’ at one NYCHA development in East Harlem, tenants say

POSTED 6:20 PM, MAY 21, 2019, BY MONICA MORALES

EAST HARLEM, Manhattan — Rats are running under parked cars at the Washington Houses in a city parking lot in East Harlem. Some in the area say rats take over at night and even during the day.

“Every night there are dozens under my car,” said Theodore Barikdar, who has a minivan.

Barikdar was assigned a parking space right next to a pile of trash, he said. The area become a feeding ground for dozens of sewer rats.

He is not alone. Luis Jimenez and Manuel Medina say they park their cars in the same NYCHA parking lot.

“I’ve had rats walking on top of my car,” said Jimenez.

The rat problem is a health hazard, Washington Houses Tenant Association President Claudia Perez said.

“It’s not just this building, it’s 14 buildings,” Perez said. “I can show you huge rat holes in every single one of these buildings.”

And now you might be thinking, “What if I find one in my own home?” You probably think that you can easily catch rats using mouse traps or poison them but you should take into consideration that killing them is not an option because that can spread diseases like salmonella and rat bite fever. Even if you do trap them, which is really hard to do, you can catch only one at a time or maybe none at all because of how smart they have become. Don’t even think of using glue boards with kids in the house because they might get stuck to it. If you want to use rodenticide you will most likely be inhaling the toxic fumes and damaging your body as well. In some cases, the rodents are immune to the rodenticides.

So is there a solution to all of this? Can you get rid of rodents for good without killing them?

The answer is YES. If you want to know how then keep reading.

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June 3, 2019June 3, 2019

Combating the locusts invasion

Locusts are related to grasshoppers and the two insects look similar. However, locust behavior can be something else entirely. Locusts are sometimes solitary insects with lifestyles much like grasshoppers. But locusts have another behavioral phase called the gregarious phase where they move with other locusts collectively and attacks on crop field.

Locusts are found on all continents except Antarctica and North America. They are most common in Africa and Asia.

Locust swarms devastate crops and cause major agricultural damage and attendant human misery – shortage and starvation. Locust outbreaks have the potential to affect the livelihoods of one in ten people on the planet.

Desert locust plagues may threaten the economic livelihood of one-tenth of the world’s humans.

Desert locusts affect 20 percent of the world’s land surface, scientists say.

Desert locusts live in barren regions that see rain only rarely. They eke out an existence alone when times are tough. When the rains come, they breed like crazy. Then things dry up, and hordes of locusts are forced to gather around diminishing patches of vegetation.

These massive swarms travel as many as 160 kilometers (100 miles) a day.

The recent invasions can give you an idea about the same:

Invasion of Locusts damages Wafra farms in Kuwait

Swarms of Locust invade Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, May 1: Despite the attempts of the Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) to fight the swarms of locusts coming from Saudi Arabia towards the Wafra farms, it looks like the yellow locusts have won the battle and caused heavy material losses to many farms, reports Al-Qabas daily. The swarms invaded the farms about three days ago and destroyed tomatoes, cloves and other products and even attempted to invade the ‘hydroponic farms’ causing material losses that could have negative consequences on the vegetables and cattle market due to hike in prices of products.

‘Avoid using pesticides for killing locusts in Jaisalmer’

TNN | May 30, 2019

JAIPUR: Chief wildlife warden of Rajasthan has written to the state agriculture department to avoid using pesticides for killing locusts in Jaisalmer which in turn is harming the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) which regularly feed on these insects.

The wildlife department is also taking the help of scientists from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) to find a pesticide which just targets the locusts and doesn’t harm any other animal or bird.

The letter (a copy of which is with TOI) states that pesticides being sprayed in Jaisalmer district to kill locusts has become a threat to the GIB particularly in Ramdeora, Lokarki and nearby areas since the state bird regularly feeds on this insect thus there is a threat to the health of GIBs which consume them.

The letter further urges that not only the use of harmful pesticides should be avoided but suitable taxa-specific biopesticides may be utilised for overcoming the locust’s problem without affecting the GIB.

Spraying with solutions of arsenic and overturning the soil can destroy the eggs but this is extremely lethal.

We need a solution that can be both effective against the locusts and also safe for other animals, humans, and the environment.

Combirepel^TM can be a boon in this crisis. Combirepel^TM is an extremely low toxic and low hazardous insect repellent produced by C Tech Corporation. It can be best described as an insect aversive repellent. It is effective against multiple other insects and pests like thrips, locusts, beetles, bugs, armyworms, etc. It works on the mechanism of repellence and therefore does not kill the target as well as non-target species.

Being low toxic, it does not harm the soil and environment. Combirepel™ can be added to a thin agricultural film to protect plants and other crops.

Our product available in the form of masterbatch can be incorporated into polymeric applications like the tree guards and fences, agricultural films and mulches, irrigation pipes, wires, and cables, etc. to keep these insects away from the trees and crops.

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The product available in the form of lacquer can be used as a direct application and can be applied on the tree trunks, wooden fences around trees, crops, and farms, already installed pipes and polymeric parts from agricultural equipment like motors, tractors, etc.

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May 31, 2019

Protecting your garden from gophers

Gophers live underground and are active all year round. They spend almost all their time in underground tunnel systems, and you might be unaware that gophers are living under your turf unless you see a gopher hole and mound.

Gophers are especially destructive yard pests, as their behavior targets both plants and soil. The first signs of gopher damage are usually the numerous dirt mounds they make all over yards. They dig one to three mounds per day and average 70 per month as they burrow hundreds of feet of tunnels underground.

Gophers are extremely well adapted and built for an underground existence. The gopher lives most of its life beneath the surface where it digs a burrow system. A gopher can create large mounds that may cause damage to passing farm equipment. Additionally, its tunnels often interfere with underground utilities, irrigation and sprinkler systems, dams, fields, and homeowners’ gardens.

Pocket gophers are destructive diggers that can be a nightmare for property owners. They use their sharp claws and teeth to excavate underground tunnels and burrows, which can quickly lead to extreme lawn damage.

Gophers are highly active in the spring and summer. They cause damage to the lawns and plants due to burrow systems that contain 500 or more tunnels that are 6″ to 1′ in depth. They can also cause damage to the slope by undermining erosion. Gophers have teeth that are capable of gnaw-damage to water lines and sprinkler systems. They are solitary and, compared to other pests, are relatively slow breeders.

Go away gophers: Calgary homeowners frustrated with rodents

May 22, 2019

Richardson’s ground squirrels are native to North America and are a constant problem for homeowners in the City of Calgary.

Calgary’s long winter is over and many people are enjoying the sunshine but there are some unwelcome residents among many gardens too.

Gophers or Richardson’s ground squirrels may look cute to the casual observer but experts in the pest control field say the rodents are a big nuisance.

“They do a lot of damage by tunneling. They go about one metre deep and just do a lot of destruction when they burrow,” says Conrad Mueller, president of Absolute Pest Control.

Strychnine ban for gophers pondered

By Barb Glen │August 9, 2018

Health Canada proposes to end the use of strychnine to control ground squirrels and is seeking public input on the matter until Sept. 27.

The proposal stems from a regular review of pesticides under the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.

In its consultation document, Health Canada said strychnine kills ground squirrels, also commonly called gophers, but it also kills non-target species that might eat either the poison-treated grain used to attract gophers or scavengers that eat the dead rodents.

Trapping is not the appropriate way to deal with these gophers. Usage of smoke balls is extremely lethal.

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May 27, 2019

Rhinoceros Beetles: Devastating to coconut

They are called rhino beetles because they have a horn on their heads that looks like a rhino horn!

Rhinoceros Beetles are among the largest of beetles in the world. The Rhinoceros Beetle is aptly named because it has horns on its head, very much like the rhinoceros does.

All rhinoceros beetles are herbivorous. The adults feed on fruit, nectar, and sap. The larvae eat decaying plant matter.

Rhinoceros beetle is mainly a pest of coconut and oil palms. The beetle’s damage palms by boring into the center of the crown, injuring the young growing tissues and feed on the released sap. As they bore into the crown, they cut through the developing leaves. The damage can significantly reduce coconut production and kill the tree. The beetle is also known to feed on economically important commercial crops such as bananas, sugarcane, papayas, sisal, pineapples, and date palms. Unfortunately, when one beetle finds a tasty tree, it calls in its friends for a mass attack!

Detection can be difficult due to the beetle’s nocturnal activity and residence within trees. Visual signs such as holes bored at the base of leaves and V-shaped feeding damage help locate this beetle.

Damage from rhinoceros beetle worse than expected in Solomons

25^th January 2019

Damage to coconut palms in Solomon Islands from the coconut rhinoceros beetle is much worse than earlier estimated, according to scientists.

Solomon Islands coconut palms killed by coconut rhinoceros beetle invasion. Nov 2018 Photo: AgResearch

Having spread from its initial invasion site in Honiara, a new variant of the beetle is threatening copra and palm oil production and livelihoods of villagers who depend on coconuts.

New Zealand research institute AgResearch Dr Trevor Jackson has been assisting Solomon Islanders respond to the problem.

He said it was much worse than we anticipated when the pest was first noticed in the Pacific around 10 years ago.

“We’ve seen areas where virtually all of the palms in an area have been destroyed by the beetle. So this has caused a total collapse in coconut production in those areas.”

Coconut rhino beetle eradication efforts focused on Pearl City area

By Nina Wu │March 29, 2019

The battle against the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle, which destroys palms, remains focused on the Pearl City area of Oahu, according to state agriculture officials.

In the past four weeks, officials have caught 146 beetles in the Pearl City and Iroquois Point area, according to biological control section chief Darcy Oishi. This is roughly equivalent to the number captured the same time a year ago.

“In the last few months, we’ve been having particularly high beetle counts,” he said. “Some of our partners have engaged in green waste management, stepped up surveillance activities, with new information, and are more effective at finding things.

Preventive measures include the use of pesticides, napthalene balls, etc. to repel the beetles. Oil cakes of neem and marotti (Hydnocarpus wightiana) have also provided good results.

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