If you are like most homeowners and business owners, your goal is to stop pests before they start nesting in your home, shed, office or restaurant. While some pest problems are difficult to head off, practicing integrated pest management (IPM) is the best way to keep bugs out.
Sometimes called integrated pest control, this approach tends to be proactive rather than reactive, managing pest populations so that infestations do not lead to costly structural damage to a building or economic damage to a business. IPM provides solutions that protect people and the environment.
Pest control companies that use IPM start with inspections and evaluations at your home or business. Pests are identified, and sightings documented and monitored. Prevention goals are based upon numbers and locations, because the existence of certain pests is not the problem. It’s when they nest in inappropriate places that we need to do something about them.
IPM allows pest control professionals to use the correct treatments in the right locations at appropriate levels, and only when necessary. Ultimately, your home or business is safe, and pest free, and the methods used maintain an environment that is healthy for all plants, animals and bugs.
A significant advantage of IPM is that homeowners and business owners ultimately have a better understanding of what prevents infestations. Working with a pest control professional to prevent bugs means cost savings in the form of fewer treatments.
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