A number of wildlife rehabilitation organizations encourage natural type of rodent control through exclusion and predator support and preventing secondary poisoning altogether. AMERICA Environmental Protection Agency notes in its Proposed Risk Mitigation Decision for Nine Rodenticides that "without habitat modification to create areas less appealing to commensal rodents, actually eradication won't prevent new populations from recolonizing the habitat." AMERICA Environmental Protection Agency offers prescribed guidelines for natural rodent control and for safe trapping in residential areas with subsequent release to the wild. People sometimes try to limit rodent damage using repellents. Balsam fir oil from the tree Abies balsamea can be an EPA approved nontoxic rodent repellent. Acacia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha root emits chemical substances that repel animals including rats.
Source: Seattle Exterminators
Pantry pests
The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, attacks stored grain products worldwide.
Insect pests like the Mediterranean flour moth, the Indian mealmoth, the cigarette beetle, the drugstore beetle, the confused flour beetle, the red flour beetle, the merchant grain beetle, the sawtoothed grain beetle, the wheat weevil, the maize weevil and the rice weevil infest stored dry foods such as for example flour, cereals and pasta.
In the house, foodstuffs found to be infested are often discarded, and storing such products in sealed containers should avoid the problem from reoccurring. The eggs of the insects will probably proceed unnoticed, with the larvae being the destructive life stage, and the adult the most noticeable stage. Since pesticides aren't safe to make use of near food, alternative treatments such as for example freezing for four days at 0 °F (−18 °C) or baking for around 30 minutes at 130 °F (54 °C) should kill any insects present.
Clothes moths
Larva, pupa and adult clothes moth Tineola bisselliella with characteristic harm to fabric
The larvae of clothes moths (mainly Tineola bisselliella and Tinea pellionella) prey on fabrics and carpets, particularly the ones that are stored or soiled. The adult females lay batches of eggs on natural fibres, including wool, silk and fur, and also cotton and linen in blends. The developing larvae spin protective webbing and chew in to the fabric, creating holes and spots of excrement. Damage is usually often concentrated in concealed locations, under collars and near seams of clothing, in folds and crevices in upholstery and across the edges of carpets along with under furniture. Ways of control include using airtight containers for storage, periodic laundering of garments, trapping, freezing, heating and the usage of chemicals; mothballs contain volatile insect repellents such as for example 1,4-Dichlorobenzene which deter adults, but to kill the larvae, permethrin, pyrethroids or other insecticides might need to be used.
Carpet beetles
Carpet beetles are family Dermestidae, even though the adult beetles prey on nectar and pollen, the larvae are destructive pests in homes, warehouses and museums. They prey on animal products including wool, silk, leather, fur, the bristles of hair brushes, pet hair, feathers and museum specimens. They have a tendency to infest hidden locations and could feed on larger regions of fabrics than do clothes moths, abandoning spots of excrement and brown, hollow, bristly-looking cast skins. Management of infestations is difficult and is dependant on exclusion and sanitation where possible, resorting to pesticides when necessary. The beetles can fly in from outdoors and the larvae may survive on lint fragments, dust and in the bags of floor cleaners. In warehouses and museums, sticky traps baited with suitable pheromones may be used to identify problems, and heating, freezing, spraying the top with insecticide and fumigation will kill the insects when suitably applied. Susceptible items could be protected from attack by keeping them in clean airtight containers
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