The Importance of Professional Pest Management in Society

When you engage the services of a professional pest management company, it’s almost certainly because you want to protect your home and family from bugs and rodents. But are you aware that keeping your property pest free with professional pest management helps your neighbors, your community, and the ecosystem as well? Proper use of pest management techniques on the individual level actually has benefits to society in general!

Why is Pest Control Important?

Professional pest control plays a crucial role in protecting the health of your family and helps to decrease the spread of pest-vector diseases. When you engage the services of a company like Twin Forks Pest Control®, you are eliminating disease-carrying rodents and insects that could reproduce exponentially and spread illnesses throughout the community.

Rodents spread diseases like hantavirus, leptospirosis, monkeypox, rat bite fever, and salmonellosis. Whether through direct contact, bites, or contamination via tracks, urine, or feces… rats and mice can be extremely hazardous to community health. They also can aggravate asthma and allergies in susceptible individuals.

Insects also cause allergic reactions and worsen asthma – either through bites and stings or contact with leavings and airborne allergens. Even worse, insect-vectored diseases can be spread to humans, livestock, and pets… sometimes with severe or fatal results. Two of the worst offenders are mosquitoes and ticks, although other bugs can cause adverse reactions or illness.

Mosquito-borne diseases include zika virus, chikungunya, malaria, West Nile virus, dengue fever, and eastern equine encephalitis. Mosquitoes also spread parasites like heartworm to domestic animals.

Ticks are a serious pest threat on Long Island’s East End and throughout the island. Tick bites spread Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, and Powassan disease.

What Is a PMP?

A Pest Management Professional (PMP) is an individual trained to treat pest issues. Previously known as exterminators or pest control operators, PMPs are knowledgeable on pest control topics and have earned professional and product certifications that qualify them to work in specific areas of the pest control industry.

Is It Worth Paying for Pest Control?

It may seem like pest control is something anyone can do – stash a little poison here, spritz some bug spray there – but this attitude is shortsighted and can do more harm than good. There’s no substitute for the expertise of a trained professional when it comes to dealing with pest threats.

Professional pest management protects you from problematic pests while doing the least amount of harm to the environment. PMPs can distinguish harmless insects crucial to the ecosystem from invasive or disease-vector threats and protect people, domestic animals, plants, and property – while maintaining a sustainable ecological balance.

Professional Pest Control Protects Your Community

Protect yourself, your family, and your community with proactive, professional pest control. Twin Forks Pest Control® is your Long Island pest management company, offering both inspection and removal services. Contact us online for a free estimate or call us at (631) 287-9020 in Southampton; (631) 324-9020 in East Hampton; or (631) 298-0500 in Southold.