Nuisance wildlife can cost you – in repairs, reputation and, in some cases, regulatory fines and penalties. You can’t afford to let a wildlife invasion damage your business. We understand. Our fast response time and expertise ensure that your animal problem is handled efficiently and effectively.
In addition, we are discreet. The presence of snakes, bees, rats or other nuisance wildlife can be upsetting to your customers, guests, employees and clients. We understand the importance of doing our jobs in a manner that is sensitive to your business and will work with you to perform our services with minimum disruption.
Wildlife Control for Shopping Centers
When customers come to your shopping center, they expect a certain level of cleanliness, safety and aesthetics. Nuisance wildlife can get in the way of a safe and pleasant customer experience. Our professional, licensed technicians are experienced in wildlife removal and control at shopping centers. Let us help you keep your property free from nuisance wildlife.
Pest Pigeons for Shopping Centers
Pigeons nesting under building canopies, awning supports, façade signage and architectural ledges can become a serious inconvenience, as well as a health hazard for your tenants and their customers. Unsightly accumulations of pigeon droppings, or guano, can decrease the center’s appeal and be hazardous to human health. Guano can damage structures, requiring expensive repairs if the droppings are not cleaned and removed appropriately.
Roof HVAC units often provide roosting and nesting spots for the birds, as well as access for the birds to enter the building. Once inside, the birds will contaminate the area above the commercial ceiling tiles, where they may go unnoticed for years, allowing large accumulations of their feces.
Pigeon Control Services
Denying pigeons the ability to perch and nest can be accomplished in a variety of ways, depending on your building structures. Options include exclusion netting; bird wiring; metal screens; electrified deterrent systems; gel repellents; visual deterrents such as lasers, reflectors or other light-emitting devices; and even sonic and subsonic repellents. Often the most straightforward and inexpensive solutions are the most effective.
In addition to repelling or excluding the birds, we may also suggest population reduction. This can be done in a variety of ways, but trapping is usually the most cost-effective and efficient. Trutech® technicians are experts at trapping pigeons, and our trapping techniques can often remove large numbers at one time. This type of service can be done on an as-needed basis or as a recurring service, similar to pest control.
Our team is focused on providing a permanent, quality solution to your pigeon problems.
Wasp Nests on Buildings
Wasps often use the various overhangs and physical features of your buildings to build their nests. Once a wasp colony reaches a certain size, the wasps will start a new one. A few unchecked nests can turn into hundreds of wasp colonies on a single building. Often, they nest high up in areas that are not safely reached by your maintenance staff or regular pest control company.
Scouting wasps will often find their way through exterior cracks and make their way inside buildings. Some species can be very aggressive. An unsuspecting worker or customer can quickly be surrounded by angry wasps as they defend their hive. This is particularly dangerous when people are unaware that they are allergic to wasp stings. If help is not nearby, a serious health crisis — even loss of life — is possible.
Because of our expertise with aggressive wasps, many general pest control companies call on Trutech® to handle these dangerous situations.
If not properly removed and treated, wasps will continue to rebuild nests on your property.
Wasp Control
Wasp colonies, like many other species, must be controlled with regular service visits. Wasp nests must be treated and removed in a way that will not disturb the wasps and cause them to aggressively seek out their unwanted “attackers.” For this reason, when planning wasp treatment and nest removal, our teams consider the time of day, your customer traffic and other variables to minimize your liability during the process. We can also seal up around your buildings to keep out wasps and nuisance animals.
Wasps sometimes nest in very high places. Aerial nest removal is no problem for Trutech® – we have portable aerial solutions that reach up to 300 feet.
Wildlife Control for Grocery Stores
When customers come to your grocery store, they expect a high level of cleanliness and safety. Nuisance wildlife can get in the way of a pleasant customer experience. Our professional, licensed technicians are experienced in wildlife removal and control at grocery stores. Let us help you keep your store free from nuisance wildlife.
Birds Problems for Grocery Stores
Birds are drawn to grocery stores for a variety of reasons, but the primary attraction is food. With their keen eyesight, birds can see food from a distance. Seeking a meal, birds will enter the store through open doorways and can be trapped inside.
Grocery store receiving docks also provide an entry area for birds. Once inside, birds damage packaging, produce and bakery items, and defecate on products and people.
The presence of birds in a grocery store can pose a significant health hazard. On occasion, Trutech® technicians are called to grocery stores for emergency bird removal after the store has been closed by a health inspector.
Birds inside a store are typically representative of the bird population outside the building, where they take advantage of ledges, pipes and awnings to roost and nest. Their droppings are unsightly and can become a major health hazard.
Bird Control for Grocery Stores
Removing birds from inside a store is challenging, especially when the store is large. The birds are free to fly around, and there are many spots for them to conceal themselves.
Trutech® technicians are experts in bird control, removal, deterrence and exclusion, and we have extensive experience in successfully removing birds from inside buildings. Our team has developed removal methods tailored to specific bird species and individualized characteristics of building interiors.
Bird removal on the exterior of grocery stores involves three techniques: minimizing available food sources; installing bird barriers, such as netting, to close off nesting areas; and installing bird deterrents to keep birds off ledges, pipes and awnings.
Minimizing food sources may require cooperation with the grocery store management team and employees. Trutech will provide recommendations on how to address these housekeeping issues with employees.
Rodents in Grocery Stores
Rats are drawn to the smell of food inside grocery stores. They will climb walls, gutters, utility pipes and wires to gain access to holes, vents and rooftops to enter a store. If they can’t find an existing opening, rats often gnaw a hole to gain entry.
Inside, rats cause tremendous damage, gnawing product wrappings to get at the food inside. Rats often sample multiple items in the grocery store as they feed, spreading the damage and contamination. Unfortunately, rat-damaged products often go unnoticed, and contaminated food can be purchased and taken home by customers.
Further, rats defecate and urinate inside the store. It is imperative to move quickly to address any rat problem.
Commercial Rat Control
After performing a full inspection of your store’s interior, exterior and roof, Trutech® technicians will provide a written report of findings along with an action plan. The report itemizes the rodent entry points on your building and serves as a checklist for repairs. It also guides future building inspections to ensure rats are not re-entering the building.
Following the assessment, our technicians will set up and monitor rat traps to remove the rats from your building. In conjunction with the trapping, we close off entry points around the building.
We also install rodent-control stations around the exterior perimeter to intercept new rats as they approach the store. These stations are monitored, cleaned and restocked regularly to help minimize the rodent population in the area and reduce the chance of reinfestation inside the store.
Finally, Trutech can also perform the remediation and sanitization treatments required to clean up the rodent contamination inside and around your building.
High places are no problem for us. Our team is trained to operate special access equipment such as tall-man lifts to safely repair multi-story buildings.
Commerical Pest Control for Stinging Insects
Honey bees, wasps and other stinging insects are attracted to sugar residue, which builds up at grocery store receiving docks, garbage cans and dumpsters. The abundance of available food makes grocery stores an attractive home for bee and wasp colonies.
Sometimes bees swarm – a normal process that allows for new colonies to be established – which creates a threatening situation for customers and employees. Liability concerns are high in this situation and are amplified when bee colonies relocate their hives to be closer to their food source.
The presence of bees is particularly dangerous when people are unaware that they are allergic to insect stings. Even someone not allergic can succumb to the impact of stings if too many are delivered. If help is not available, a serious health crisis – even loss of life – is possible.
Stinging Insect Control Services
Good housekeeping by store staff is the first line of defense against stinging insects. The three prime areas – receiving docks, garbage cans and dumpsters – should be cleaned, hosed and pressure washed regularly and in response to accidental spills.
If this routine is not sufficient to ward off the bees and other stinging insects, Trutech® can help. Removal and control methods depend on the situation and the characteristics of your building and its landscaping.
