Exclusion

Definition

Protecting an area against pest access either by mechanical alteration (physical exclusion) or by rendering access points and harborage impassable via chemical repellency (chemical exclusion).

Concept

• Exclusion involves altering the environment so pests cannot enter or travel through. Chemical exclusion repels pests from the area and reduces the likelihood that pest will enter or harbor.
  
  
• Accomplished by making Crack & Crevice or void injection treatments with silica aerogel, or other repellent material.

Advantages

• Physical exclusion may be a permanent solution for an area and reduces long-term pesticide requirement.
  
  
• Access points and voids may be quickly with products (chemical exclusion) designed to repel, which limit the influx of some pests and reduce pest sightings.
  
  
• Exclusion may reduce the use of chemical insecticides and is considered, by many, as environmentally friendly.

Application Equipment

• Caulk, netting, wire mesh, cement and highly repellent insecticides.

Common Pests Treated with this Technique

• Birds
  
  
• Rodents
  
  
• Cockroaches
  
  
• Flies
  
  
• Occasional invaders

Products Used

Residual products with repellent properties such as Tri-Die and Microcare.

Quick links to Pest Pages :

Birds

http://www.epestsolutions.com/Birds.html

Roaches

http://www.epestsolutions.com/Roaches.html

Rat and Mice

http://www.epestsolutions.com/Rats_Mice.html

Flies

http://www.epestsolutions.com/Flies.html