Name: Exterminator And Pest Expert Debunk 15 Pest Myths | Debunked
Uploaded: 2022-04-07T23:56:30.000Z
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"You can't see a bedbug with your naked eye."

Hi, I'm Jim Skinner. I'm the owner of A&C Pest Management.

It's a third-generation pest-management company

I'm also an associate certified entomologist.

I'm Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann. I'm an entomologist,

and I'm also the coordinator of community IPM

at the New York state IPM program at Cornell.

And I've been in this job for over 20 years,

working with bedbugs and structural pests.

And today, we're going to be debunking myths about pests.

Some mosquitoes actually feed on certain leeches,

There's so many different types of mosquitoes.

There's only a few mosquitoes that actually feed on humans.

Well, at the very least, you should be wearing

and if not, you should be wearing repellents.

"Mosquitoes keep biting you because you're sweet."

I am sweet, but they actually prefer to feed on my wife

When we pull off a parkway, you'll see a big McDonald's,

you'll see a Burger King, you'll see pizzerias.

Whatever they're in the mood for on that particular day

True. Everyone puts off a different pheromone,

are everything that we've ever eaten in our lives,

all the little sicknesses we've had in our lives,

and that's what they're mostly attracted to.

components of human breath and animal breath

that attracts mosquitoes, without a doubt.

So if you are breathing and the plume of your breath

"Head lice jump from one person to another."

OK. Well, head lice are not jumpers the way fleas are.

But head lice do transfer from person to person

when there's head-to-head contact or brushes shared,

where the coats are all stored together in the wintertime.

With head lice, it's not a pest-control issue

The best way to get rid of lice is to use combing.

There's really no space between the teeth of the comb,

It's designed to be small enough to catch the nits.

Just got to make sure you get real close to the scalp

The other treatment for lice is to warm the head,

We don't treat the inside of homes for lice

because their life expectancy is so short.

The life expectancy of a louse off of the body

What you'd do in a situation like that: take the bedding,

and they generally don't coexist in the same places,

A baby mouse has very big ears for its size,

Skinner: Take a look at the back foot, the back leg.

The foot's a lot longer on a rat than it is a mouse.

You take a look at a snout; a rat snout is a lot more blunt.

Gangloff-Kaufmann: Mice can carry diseases like hantavirus,

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