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Stanley Pest Control is always looking
to provide services that will enhance and improve the control
of pests and at the same time bring added value to our customers.
We believe that many of the items associated with other trades
and services fall under our area of expertise. By offering additional
service to our clients, we can enhance results and bring more
value to our client's dollar. Weather stripping: Insects and rodents can enter under doors and
windows that have missing or damaged weather stripping. |
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Do you know anyone who is not afraid of either spiders, mice, snakes, or some other creature? Probably not. Even the fearless adventurer, Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," when confronted with a roomful of snakes, quivered with fear! Scientists have discovered that we are preconditioned to fear such things as heights and spiders. And we humans are not alone in being born with certain fears. A mouse, for instance, will instantly freeze when it sees a cat, even if the mouse has never seen a cat before. The center of fear in our brain is two tiny organs, called the amygdala (pronounced ah-MIG-dah-la). Stimulating these organs causes hormone glands to start pumping out adrenaline, producing the racing heart, clammy hands, and dry mouth that typify fear in humans. The reaction puts us instantly on the alert, helping us to respond quickly to a potential threat. The danger may or may not be real--the organ doesn't always take the time to logically analyze the threat. So next time you see a creature that makes you freeze up, perhaps unjustifiably, just blame it on those two almond-sized glands in your brain, the amygdala. |
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Broadens Range of Services
Fear of Certain
Pests is Perfectly NaturalPest Trivia!
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1. True or False? If you loose false teeth you set out at night, you might be able to blame it on rats. 2. How far can a rat fall without being seriously injured? 3. How many kinds of cockroaches are there? 4. In one day, about how much damage is done to property by rats and mice? |
Answers to Pest Trivia!
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1. True. When you hear a really strange story once, you may not believe it. But when you hear it again, this time in a completely different part of the world, you tend to sit up and listen. Rats really do steal false teeth. This time we're hearing it from Beijing, China. It seems that there is an outbreak of rats there. They are eating and destroying everything from power cables to grain to clothing. And yes, tourists are complaining the rats are making of with their false teeth. 2. 50 feet! 3. Around 57 in the United States; 3,500 in the world. 4. About $2,500,000 or nearly one-billion dollars every year in the U.S. |
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Debugging Computers
It must have seemed incredible that an insect so small and seemingly insignificant could have stopped the giant machine--perhaps like the "unsinkable" Titanic being sunk by something "minor" like an iceberg. But pests can cause problems to many kinds of equipment besides computers, including smoke detectors, alarm systems, TV's, VCR's, clocks, radios, microwave ovens, stoves, and phones. Often pests such as cockroaches, ants and mice crawl into equipment because of the shelter and extra warmth they provide. The inside circuit panels can corrode and short out if contaminated with droppings or body secretions of insects, or the decomposing bodies of dead pests. In heavily infested homes and apartments, even a simple mechanical device like a clock will stop when it gets filled up with cockroaches. Using our professional services to prevent pest problems is an important aspect of protecting equipment. Eating or drinking near your computer
makes it even more likely that pests will be there and cause
problems. Either eat somewhere else, or clean up very thoroughly
and empty wastebaskets of food daily. |
"Pet"
Rats Overwhelm House 
If
you have a computer, it's a good idea to keep real "bugs"
under control. The potential danger of pests to computers became
evident in 1945 when the world's largest computer (ENIAC) suddenly
stopped one day during the first year it was put into service.
Failure of the giant room-sized computer was traced to a tiny
moth that had entered a relay switch and shorted it out.Don't Bring Them Home!
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Pantry pests continually come into stores in new shipments of food, and from outside. However, if a store has good pest control and follows sound pest management practices, they can greatly reduce the problem. |
Pantry
pests such as flour moths and flour beetles usually get started
in a kitchen when you accidentally bring an infested food home
from a grocery store. In one survey, traps were used to detect
Indian meal moths, the most common pantry pest in kitchens. The
survey found that ALL of the grocery stores surveyed had the
moths. They were the most common in the pet food and flour aisles.