SAFETY RULES for Integrated Pest Management

• Do not handle trapped or dead rodents & cockroaches with bare hands

• Dispose dead rodents within 24 hours, by burying them of sealing them in plastic bags and putting them in trash

• For anticoagulant rodenticides, Vitamin K is used as antidote, although in cases of severe poisoning, whole blood transfusion is also utilized.

• Refer to authorized pest control technician when planning to apply any pesticide

• Do not place bug zappers on porches, patios or within 100 feet of the outside areas of homes or buildings. This should attract flying insects away from the house and not to it. Electrical bug zappers will cause the insect to explode releasing body parts into the air and surrounding areas.

Intervention Techniques - FLIES

Physical

• Electrical bug zapper
• Fly baits/paper traps that contains a fly attractant or (pheromone" called muscamone that attracts flies
• Light traps

Chemical

• Sprays containing pyrethrum
• Time release misters that dispense pyrethrum on a regular basis

Biological

• Fly predators are tiny, nocturnal, stingless wasps that lay eggs then use the pupa as food, thereby destroying the eggs and preventing them from hatching
  

Intervention Techniques- Cockroaches

Physical

• Seal cracks, crevices, holes in walls and floors with cement to close their hideouts and breeding places
• Destroy egg-capsules before they are hatched
• Cockroach baits
• Sticky traps
• Vacuuming
• Cold treatment for five days

Chemical

• Boric and dust
• hydramethylnon, abamectin of fipronil gel
• Aerosol or liquid products (common active ingredients include permethrin, deltamethrin, cyflethrin, and cypermethrin)

Biological

• Wasps attack the egg cases, adult and nymphal cockroaches
• Houses centipede - probably the most effective control of cockroaches, through most homeowners find the centipedes themselves objectionable