Pests are a risk to businesses and people. They cause health issues and can destroy a commercial place in no time.
Pests can harm buildings, furniture, fixtures, edibles, and others. They transmit diseases, produce nuisance odors, and leave rash marks on skin. Pests can affect your sales, customers, and staff members.
Pests also affect your customers and staff in varying ways. They cause diseases, a distressed feel, and irritating bites. When customers undergo such a terrible experience, they might stop engaging with your business. They might even update their bad experience on social media platforms or give away a bad review to your business on the internet.
To keep the rest problem under check, time-to-time commercial pest control is a convenient choice. You can take a yearly package of pest control for the office and run your business without any botheration.
The following information lets you know of the top 3 pests found in commercial spaces:
1. Rodents
Mice and rats create their nesting shelters quite close to places that supply food in large quantities. For instance, a food storage space or a wheat mill, etc. Rodents multiply and thrive quickly if they have access to the food supply. If you own a business that involves the storage or manufacturing of food, rodents can be a problem for your business.
Rodents damage ample sections of a business, the common-most being electrical equipment. Another part that rodents can damage intensely is the sewer system. They transmit ample diseases including Leptospirosis, Lyme disease, Salmonellosis, Toxoplasmosis, rat-bite fever.
Rodents cause:
- Food contamination
- Damage to food packaging and containers
- Damaging fixtures, buildings, electricals, wirings, etc.
- Littering the environment with droppings, food particles, etc.
- Blocking sewers and forming holes.
2. Cockroaches
Cockroaches are crawling insects that affect food businesses the most. Since they are small in size, they tend to hide in unreachable places. They thrive pretty quickly and can survive on a varied diet. Additionally, they are the carriers of several diseases and dirt.
Cockroaches are nocturnal insects and come out during the nighttime. They hunt and gather their food during the night from varying sites. Their shelter places are dark, hidden places like cracks, drains, crevices, sewers, furniture, equipment, etc. These places offer humidity and the right temperature for their survival. It is quite difficult for normal cleaners and sanitization products to reach out to such places. Professional pest controlexperts have ideal sanitizing equipment and products to deal with insects like cockroaches.
Cockroaches cause:
- Allergies and diseases
- Littering all over the place with excreta, etc.
- Bodily secretions and droppings spoiling the environment.
- Egg cases and cast skins contaminating food packages and products.
3. Flies
Flies thrive at places where food odors are produced, and proper cleanliness is not maintained. There are several species of flies including, fruit flies, filth flies, and drain flies. Different species get attracted by different edible items like fats, carbohydrates, and decaying proteins.
Flies accumulate at places like drains, garbage containers, over-ripe edibles, spills, cracks, stagnant waters, etc. Pest control experts identify the type of flies and treat them accordingly.
Flies cause:
- They move from contaminated to clean areas causing the clean places to contaminate. It also contaminated food and water, further leading to diseases.
- They carry microorganisms like Salmonella, E. coli, fungi, parasites, Cryptosporidium, etc., that cause diseases.
Stored Product Insects (SPIs)
SPIs are also known as pantry pests. They include beetles, moths, weevils, mites, etc. A lot of dried edibles like nuts, dried fruit, cereals, milk powder, preserved meat, spices, etc., are sensitive to pest infestation. All the several stages of food like eggs, larva, pupa, and adults can be present together in any food item. SPIs are also capable of piercing and entering packaged food materials. Larva forms of insects can enter packaged food items through tiny holes. SPIs can cause immense damage and are quite difficult to control by non-experts
SPIs cause:
- Food contamination.
- Damaging food packaging.
Time is important with pests
Pests can grow quite rapidly, and the damage to your business can grow each day. The worst part being, you would not even know while your business continues getting affected by pests from the inside. The best solution to this problem is to have acommercial pest control expert team taking care of your commercial space. A little investment can help you keep your business, sales, and customers safe.
Frequently Asked Questions FAQs:
Q. Is a Mouse a rodent?
A. A mouse is a little rodent with a sharp nose, fuzzy round body, huge ears, and a long, regularly smooth, tail.
Q. Where are rodents found?
A. Rodents are tracked down everywhere in the world, aside from Antarctica, New Zealand, and some sea islands.
Q. What are the most common rodents found in the workplace?
A. Perhaps the most widely recognized work environment pests, rodents (counting rodents, mice, and squirrels), are answerable for the spread of a few infections and parasites.
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