Feb 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Our pest of the month for February is the roach. Sometimes it may seem like no matter what you use against them, whether it is insect repellant or the closest cleaning solution you can find, nothing keeps a roach down! Some claims even say that a nuclear explosion couldn’t even take roaches out. Though we don’t profess to have products stronger than something nuclear physicists can whip up, we do manage to handle roaches and other pests with our natural, green products.
So that leaves the question, are roaches truly capable of surviving nuclear explosions? The answer is – possibly! According to MythBusters, 10 percent of cockroaches exposed to the amount of radioactive gamma rays equivalent to the bomb at Hiroshima survived after exposure. It may be due to their simple bodies and slower cell cycles. Roaches lose their cells about once a week at most whereas some human cells constantly split up. However, just like all other life forms, if the radiation was great enough, roaches would not be able to survive.
As stated earlier, Northwest Exterminating has environmentally friendly products that handle your pest control needs. You don’t have to worry about exposure to harmful chemicals as we treat your home for pests. If you have a pest problem, we’ve got the solution! Call Northwest today.
Melissa Brown
[email protected]
Source:
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/cockroaches-survive-nuclear-explosion.htm
Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Spotting a spider or roach may cause someone to jump from fright. Most people who have a typical fear of bugs may have these fears for various reasons. For instance, people who avoid bees may have a legitimate concern about being stung, especially if they’ve been stung before and found themselves to be allergic. Some bugs such as bees, wasps, poisonous spiders and mosquitoes can carry threats that many people try to protect themselves from. Northwest Exterminating provides an extensive amount of services to protect homes and businesses from such threats.
Then there are the bugs that may not carry much of a threat but we know the sight of them indicates other unpleasant conditions. Flies and roaches tend to flock to places that are unhygienic and not the cleanest. Maintaining a clean living and working environment usually helps eliminate the presence of these bugs, as well as the related fear. Our preference for a bug-free environment may be due to that in more industrialized, urbanized societies, we do not have firsthand experience with bugs because we do not live in their natural environment. Out of sight is out of mind, so spotting an unusual insect might always be a little bit surprising.
Other people have much more than an aversion, but rather a legitimate fear of insects otherwise known as entomophobia. A well-known form of entomophobia is arachnophobia, the fear of spiders. As the definition suggestions, the fear or concern has little to do with bugs themselves and more to do with somebody’s psychological disposition. Northwest Exterminating may not be able to fix your fears, but we can certainly take care of the bugs for you. Call us today to schedule an appointment!
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Melissa Brown
[email protected]
Jun 22, 2012 | Pest Control, Termite Control
After doing a post on bug movies, we thought it was only appropriate to have a post about bug songs! We came up with some classic kid songs, some well-known mainstream songs, and even found some songs that we’ve never heard of before!
Here’s our list of Songs about Bugs:
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee
- Ants Go Marching
- Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me
- The Flight of the Bumblebee – written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- La Cucaracha
- The Bugs Bunny Theme Song
- All My Friends Are Insects – Weezer
- Butterfly – Weezer
- Butterfly – The Verve
- Greedy Fly – Bush
- Between Angels and Insects – Papa Roach
- Termite Song – Joseph Arthur
- Dune Buggy – The Presidents of the United States
- Butterfly Kisses – Bob Carlisle
- Bugs – Pearl Jam
- Spider – They might Be Giants
- Ticks – Brad Paisley
- Fireflies – Owl City
- Ants Marching – Dave Matthews Band
While coming up with songs we also came up with some band names that were based on bugs:
- The Beatles
- Alien Ant Farm
- Papa Roach
- Adam and the Ants
- Daddylong Legs
For more “Ticky Tunes” visit Northwest Exterminating‘s Pinterest page!
What bug themed songs or bands can you think of?
Mar 5, 2012 | Pest Control
Cockroaches are out and about! Here are 10 facts about the creepy crawlers that you may not have known.
- Crushed cockroaches can help ease a sting when applied to the wounded area.
- Cockroaches have white blood.
- Roaches primarily come out for water, not food.
- Cockroaches can live a month without food, but only a week without water.
- A roach can live a week without a head. It dies after a week due to lack of water.
- A cockroach that has just shed it’s skin is white and has black eyes. It takes 8 hours to reproduce the skin layer.
- Laboratory female roaches are able to reproduce without aid of a male. They produce all female offspring.
- Cockroaches thrive in all conditions. They can live in the arctic as well as the desert.
- Contrary to popular belief, cockroaches can bite. The larger roaches have even been known to bite humans.
- Roaches don’t only live in dirty homes. Roaches can live in the walls of clean homes but they have larger colonies in less clean homes because there is a bigger food supply available.
Feb 23, 2012 | Company News, Wildlife
Technician Tales
As you can imagine, there is never a dull moment in the pest control industry. It is our privilege to be able to help our customers keep their homes and businesses healthy and free of pests. Along the way, we get ourselves into some pretty interesting situations. Sometimes we get a good laugh about them around the different offices and thought that we would share our stories with our readers. Technician Tales will be stories from our ladies and gentlemen out in the field or in the office who have found themselves in some very interesting predicaments. For your enjoyment:
Technician Tales: There’s a boa in your refrigerator
Recently our representatives went on a call for a German cockroach infestation. The area was crawling (no pun intended) in cockroaches. There were roach droppings covering the floors, walls, and naturally, surrounding the refrigerator. As a team of technicians were treating and vacuuming up the roaches, one of the technicians had pulled back the refrigerator and was treating around the area. The technician was working his way around when he all the sudden jumped back and screamed, “SNAKE!!!!!!”. Everyone hurried to see what he was yelling about. When they looked at the bottom of the refrigerator, curled up at the bottom was a 4 foot long boa constrictor!!!! Our technicians went to find someone at the location to let them know what they had found only to be met with the response “We’ve been looking for him”!!
Now THAT was a technician tale that we just had to share.
