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What are urban pests and what effects do they produce?
Urban pests are arguably the most complex pests a pest manager has to deal with . Although the categories of urban pests are the same as in agriculture, the habitat is much more diverse and lacks continuity.
Since the beginning of the year 2000 we have been working with a focus on integrated pest control management. En el Integrated Control all available tools are used to manage pests, promoting prevention in the first place through preventive measures. Modification of people's habits is recommended (cultural measures), the sanitation of the environment (hygienic measures), the correct temperature and humidity (environmental measures), and optimization of buildings (structural measures). Second, if the harmful organism is present, they run corrective measures. They are carried out first mechanical and physical measurements; and then the biological and chemical measures. If there is no other effective option and a chemical control, the less toxic and addressed to the target species, With the proper technique and in the fair amount.
Therefore, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is not about reacting to a problem, but rather about organizing long-term activities to keep pests under control. These activities are carried out in coordination between the pest control company and the client, who must cooperate to achieve established objectives.
Definition of urban pests
It is not a biological or ecological concept but a practical and anthropocentric one: a pest is an organism that comes into conflict with our interests.
The definition is strongly related to the notion of abundance or a large number of individuals . However, the concept of a pest is more closely tied to the harmful effect that certain organisms have on human activity . In an attempt to define the concept more technically, one could say that a pest is a group of living beings that, due to their abundance and/or characteristics, can cause health problems, discomfort, damage, or economic losses to people.
The concept of plague has a subjective element since the number of individuals that constitutes a plague depends on each place, each time and each culture. Thus, the presence of a cockroach on the sidewalk of a street in any city is not considered a pest, but it would be considered if it appears in a hospital operating room or in a school kitchen.
Location of urban pests
Many unwanted species visit or make their home in residential buildings, industrial sites, and urban areas . Some contaminate food , others damage structural timbers , others chew on fabrics or infest stored dried goods . In many cases , they cause significant economic losses , others carry diseases or pose fire hazards , and some are simply a nuisance.
To control these pests, efforts are made to improve sanitation and waste management, modify habitats, and use repellents, growth regulators, traps, baits, and pesticides.
CIP principles
- Correct identification of the harmful organism.
- Determine damage level and tolerance threshold.
- Monitor the population and determine the factors that promote its growth.
- Carry out a program of performances and select the best moment of performance.
- Prioritize preventive and corrective measures of a mechanical and physical nature.
- If chemical measures are taken, choose the least aggressive ones.
- Carry out targeted treatments with the least amount of pesticide.
- Carry out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the program of actions.
- The urban environment is possibly the most complex for pest management
- Urban pests inflict large economic losses
- Applications in residential buildings, industry, urban areas, etc.
- Urban pests are carriers of diseases, increase the risk of fire or simply are an aesthetic nuisance
- The fight is based on improvement of sanitation, improvement of garbage management, habitat modifications, use of repellents and growth regulators; as well as the use of traps, baits and pesticides
