Treatment

Biological Pest Control

Biological pest control is the control of one through the control and management of natural predators and parasites. For example: mosquitoes are often controlled by putting Bt Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis, a bacterium that infects and kills mosquito larvae, in local water sources. The treatment has no known negative consequences on the remaining ecology and is safe for humans to drink. The point of biological pest control, or any natural pest control, is to eliminate a pest with minimal harm to the ecological balance of the environment in its present form.

Elimination of Breeding Grounds

Proper waste management and drainage of still water, eliminates the breeding ground of many pests.
 
Garbage provides food and shelter for many unwanted organisms, as well as an area where still water might collect and be used as a breeding ground by mosquitoes. Communities that have proper garbage collection and disposal, have far less of a problem with rats, cockroaches, mosquitoes, flies and other pests than those that don’t. Open air sewers are ample breeding ground for various pests as well. By building and maintaining a proper sewer system, this problem is eliminated.

Traps

Traps have been used for killing off mice found in houses, for killing wolves, and for capturing raccoons and stray cats and dogs for disposal by town officials. We make use of many different types of traps, both human and otherwise.

Destruction of Infected Plants

Forest services sometimes destroy all the trees in an area where some are infected with insects, if seen as necessary to prevent the insect species from spreading. Farms infested with certain insects, have been burned entirely, to prevent the pest from spreading elsewhere. We can use this same method, albeit on a much smaller scale. Little things like ensuring your hedges are trimmed and plants removed from the base of your house, can make a huge difference in controlling pests.

Natural Rodent Control

Several wildlife rehabilitation organizations encourage natural forms of rodent control through exclusion and predator support and can prevent secondary poisoning altogether. The United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ agrees, noting in its Proposed Risk Mitigation Decision for Nine Rodenticides that "without habitat modification to make areas less attractive to commensal rodents, even eradication will not prevent new populations from recolonizing the habitat.” We specialize in the exclusion of rodents humanly.

Repellants

Balsam fir oil from the tree Abies balsamea is an EPA approved non-toxic rodent repellent.

Acacia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha root emits chemical compounds that repel animals including raccoons, snakes and rats.