Lots of businesses are becoming aware of the effect that their actions are having upon the environment. Their pest control system is definitely a place where they can reduce the amount of poison used and subsequently introduced into the environment.
Recent studies have found that samples of Kestrels, Barn Owls, Buzzards and Red kites were found to contain rodenticide (pesticides that kill rodents). This introduction of rodenticide to these birds (which are dangerous) to these beneficial birds) can only have come from one place: the rats and mice that they have predated upon (having eaten them before they were caught).
Responsible Rodenticide
The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) has placed limitations on the use of rodenticides. But with a recent finding showing persistent and worrying amounts of rodenticide being found in birds, and with no noticeable drops in the number of birds testing positive for rodenticide since its inception, things are surely going to have to change.
The Latest Technology Can Help
Modern Technology, combined with long forgotten skills of trapping, can help the modern company really reduce the amount of rodenticide being used while often stopping problems far faster than a typical rodenticide system.
Traps which connect to the customers WIFI will immediately alert the pest controller to a trap being set off and will also let the pest controller know if the trap has caught, or if it is a false activation. Located properly within correctly disguised boxes will allow any rat or mouse that enters the area to be quickly accounted for. This stops the rodent from gaining an established colony. Once problems have become established, they are harder to deal with. The rat’s natural neophobic reactions prevent them from entering new boxes or trusting anything they deem a hazard.
Typical Rodent Catching Systems (and their flaws)
A typical system which you would find in most commercial businesses would involve bait boxes placed equidistant around the perimeter of the building, these would have nontoxic monitoring blocks placed within them, and they would be checked on a semi-regular basis. If a rat was to eat these blocks, it would be seen by the pest controller and it would then be replaced with a poison alternative, which - hopefully - would deal with the rat issue.
However, this system has many faults. The first and most obvious is that you are effectively placing a food source around the perimeter of your business which will only attract rodents in.
The second is that field mice cannot be poisoned, all rodenticides had this authority removed several years ago. Therefore, if you have fed them into your building then you will need a time consuming and costly trapping programme to sort a problem you have created. The temptation of course is for the pest controller to say that the damage done was committed by rats and poison the mice, which will ultimately lead to rodenticide secondary poisoning of not just birds of prey but fox, weasel, stoats and other birds predating or scavenging on their bodies.
Summary
So, in short, a connected system would help deal with problems far faster, it would reduce the chance of a problem gaining a foothold, it will protect your business better and importantly reduce the amount of poison used and help with your environmental assessments, ISO 14001 is a particular.
