Rochester Exterminating
Pest Guard® Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Practicing pest elimination and prevention in today’s world is quite different than it was 20 years ago when companies simply sprayed insecticide everywhere they expected pests to be. The methods used to manage pests today rely on a system known as Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
With increased concern about our environment, Rochester Exterminating long ago began changing the ways by which we manage pest activity, and we continually improve our techniques, especially in personal living spaces. These include:
Careful, professional inspections in and around structures to help determine
- where pests breed and develop
- where they find food, water and preferred temperatures
- where they find shelter
- where and how they find entry into our homes and workplaces
Regularly scheduled monitoring for pests
- using pest feeding stations
- various trapping devices
- thorough inspections help detect pest activity as it first occurs and before it becomes well-established
Pest Guard IPM is an exclusive system from Rochester Exterminating
Rochester Exterminating has developed our exclusive Pest Guard brand® IPM System as the basis for our pest prevention service plans. Pest Guard IPM is a systematic approach which incorporates a variety of measures to reduce pest activity to tolerable levels. Our goal is long term pest prevention while creating minimal impact on human health, non target animals and our environment.
Properly identifying pests, monitoring population dynamics, utilizing cultural, physical, biological methods and judicious use of chemical controls are all practiced by Rochester Exterminating professionals using Pest Guard IPM. The system includes:
An outside-in approach with 33 Point Inspection
We focus our treatment efforts outside your building whenever possible to lessen the need to use materials inside.
Our 33 Point Inspection plan identifies the environmental conditions in and around your structures which attract or support pest activity. We then take steps to eliminate the points in your building where pests may gain entry.
Organic products for effective pest management
Most pest suppression can be accomplished through the use of boric acid dust and insect baits specific to the problem pest when there is concern about the types of treatments and pest control products used. For certain environmentally sensitive situations we can use organic products derived from essential plant oils which are effective in managing unwanted pest activity.
These products are compliant with the Unites States Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Plan. Organic approaches are often somewhat slower in obtaining results, but with proper application technique and persistence they are an effective tool in our Pest Guard IPM System.
