Insect Control

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Insect Pets Control

We deal with all sorts of insects and provide a pest control service for all types of insect pests in the Lancashire area.

Introduction Insects are found in all types of environment and they occupy little more than two-thirds of the known species of animals in the world. Insects affect human beings in a number of ways. Many of them fed on all kinds of plants including crop plants, forest trees, medicinal plants and weeds.

They also infest the food and other stored products in godowns, bins, storage structures and packages causing a huge amount of loss to the stored food and also deterioration of food quality. Insects inflict injury to plants and stored products either directly or indirectly in their attempts to secure food.

Insects that cause less than 5 % of damage are not considered as pests. The insects which cause damage between 5 – 10% are called minor pests and those that cause damage above 10% are considered as major pests. Insects that cause injury to plants and stored products are grouped into two major groups namely chewing insects and sucking insects. The former group chews off plant parts and swallow them thereby causing damage to the crops. Sucking insects pierce through the epidermis and suck the sap.

Many of the sucking insects serve as vectors of plant diseases and also inject their salivary secretions containing toxins that cause severe damage to the crop.

Introduction of high yielding varieties, expansion in irrigation facilities and indiscriminate use of increased rates of agrochemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides in recent years with a view to increasing productivity has resulted in heavy crop losses due to insect pests in certain crops. This situation has arisen mainly due to the elimination of natural enemies, the resurgence of pests, development of insecticide resistance and out-break of secondary pests.

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