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New Jersey exterminators Spring is on the way. Although we get a welcomed change in weather, it also means more insects. It is time for the bees and ants to hatch and start building their homes. When they do, it is good to know that New Jersey exterminators have perfected the long-practiced craft that started 4500 years ago with the ancient Sumerians who used sulfur to kill insects that were plaguing their crops. All over the world, different civilizations invented different means in which to protect their crops from the insects which meant to destroy them. Ancient Indian exterminators used greener methods. They killed insects with the use of poison plants. The Chinese exterminators developed their own form of pesticides approximately 1000 years after that. They used mercury and arsenic to kill lice. They would also treat the seeds of their crops with fungicides before planting. By 13 BC, Romans exterminators made their own oil-based pesticides to spray on crops. Architect Marcus Pollio built the first-ever rat-proofed granary. While it is a very good thing that pest control technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, all of these ancient cultures laid very important groundwork for New Jersey exterminators. By the Middle Ages, people were trying all different kinds of techniques. They introduced predatory insects that would eat the crop-killing insects. Crop rotation was another way to deter insects. By the 1800’s, exterminators started making making botanical pesticides from pyrethrum. By the 1940’s exterminators started using the infamous DDT as a pesticide. During the 1940’s Americans thought that DDT was the bee’s knees. It was a very powerful pesticide that killed off disease carrying mosquitoes that spread spread malaria and typhus. It was sprayed on mosquitoes during World War II and saved the lives of countless soldiers and civilians. However, as time went on, people found out how powerful DDT really was. The poisons got into the ground and the water causing a very harmful effect on plants and wildlife. Fish swimming in tainted water died, and birds and animals that ate the contaminated fish also died. After the birds and fish started dying off, larger animals that ate them started dying due to lack of food. The whole thing became a disaster. President Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency which outlawed the use of DDT in 1972, Today New Jersey exterminators use heavily-regulated pesticides in order to prevent another incident of this magnitude from repeating. The EPA continues to regulate the balance between amounts of pesticides used to kill crop-damaging insects and keep plants and animals safe and healthy.
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