Pest Control Affected By Weather in Birmingham Alabama

Michael Wienecke 0:11<br /> Welcome to another episode of Peskies Pest control podcast here in Birmingham, Alabama with Michael and Travis. We do this podcast as a community service for Birmingham, Hoover Vestavia, hills, mountain Brook Halina, Alabaster, Pelham, and all other surrounding areas. Hey, so today I want to talk about weather change and how weather change affects different bugs and, you know, different bug sightings in your home? Travis McGowin 0:46<br /> Well, first of all, let me just go ahead and say that, thank goodness, the weather is changing. Michael Wienecke 0:52<br /> I am looking forward to it. Yes, I have waited so Travis McGowin 0:55<br /> long for fall to come along and cooler weather and less humidity and all of those those rough things that we deal with, you know, from the time spring kicks off and all the way through summer in Alabama. So I’m highly looking forward to the weather change. Michael Wienecke 1:11<br /> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mosquitoes are about to be gone completely. And we’re looking forward to that, because the mosquito season has been been pretty rough this year. Travis McGowin 1:21<br /> It has it has, you know, and, you know, all throughout the summer, we were able to get a fair amount of rain Fair, fair amount of moisture. But here’s we’ve crept into fall, it’s kind of tapered off. So it’s got the bugs going a little crazy. Michael Wienecke 1:37<br /> Yeah, well, I mean, you know, just like we talked about in other podcasts, you know, bugs, they need harbourage, they need plenty of heat and moisture. So you know, as we’re starting to get into that wintertime phase, your house is a great source of harbourage and a great source of heat and moisture. Travis McGowin 1:57<br /> Yeah, I don’t think people realize just how much the weather not even just temperature. But you know, like you were saying moisture. So rainfall and humidity. I don’t think a lot of people realize just how much of an effect that actually has on the insect behavior in the insect population. You know, in terms of when it starts to get cooler, the insects go into that mode of searching for a place to overwinter and to ride out those cooler temperatures for the cooler months, then, you know, your home just becomes a prime target. Michael Wienecke 2:31<br /> Yeah. Because you know that that I think a lot of people think that just the bugs just die. And they just they’re just gone. During the during the winter was don’t get me wrong, some do die. But it’s it’s more of a, you know, going dormant and then reemerging once that that humidity and everything outside starts to take a take place. Travis McGowin 2:55<br /> Definitely. So why don’t you kind of elaborate on those typical cooler weather paths that someone might see trying to enter their home. And I’m not even talking about just insects. I mean, there are other pests such as rodents that like to try to find a warm place to lay up for the winter. So once you kind of elaborate on that for us. Michael Wienecke 3:16<br /> Yeah, of course. So you know, first thing that comes to my mind are going to be cockroaches, cockroaches are 365 days a year, they can, you know, survive a lot. So just because you don’t see cockroaches in your home in the wintertime doesn’t mean they’re not there. They can get those cracks and crevices those tight spots. And that’s, you know, one reason why it’s so important to to continue treating your home in the winter, because you’re going to have a much better success rate when those roaches do start to become less dormant, and then come out and you start seeing them on your kitchen floor and your bathroom in you know, places like that. You know, with with rodents trying to get in your house, I wasn’t going to make this about rodents, but I feel like we can always we can always talk about rodents and how they get in your house. But yeah, I mean, same deal. You know, it’s freezin