Mumbai city’s high-rises make perfect homes for pests. With increasing number people living close together, the food, warmth, and shelter are easy to find for the pests. Pests move through pipes, trash chutes, and walls, making infestation tough to control and manage. Even top floors of building aren’t safe. Before a pest control company, it is essential to know the probable ways leading pests to your apartment inside. Some possible passes for pests to intrude in to your apartment may be:
- Pipes and wiring – Plumbing, ducts and electrical lines
- Cracks and gaps – Even tiny openings let the pests pass through.
- Open windows and doors – An easy pass for birds, insects, and rodents
- Elevators and stairwells – Shared spaces used by pests to move between floors
- Garbage chutes and trash rooms – Poor waste management attracts pests
- Bird nests – Nesting sites in door the building
- Shared spaces –Storage areas, hallways, and laundry rooms, etc. spread infestations
Six Pests That Commonly Thrive in High-Rise Buildings
- Bird Mites: Bird mites invade high-rises buildings through the birds like pigeon and sparrow. When birds leave, mites tend to search for new hosts for surviving including the humans. Bird mites don’t spread disease, but their bites cause irritation and itching. These may intrude into your apartment through air ducts, vents, and cracks.
- Birds: The high-rise buildings are perfect spots for roosting and nesting. The warmth from vents and heating systems helps their eggs hatching process. Their populations grow fast to create several problems-
- Their droppings contain bacteria and fungi causing diseases like cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis.
- Their nests block vents attracting mites.
- They introduce fleas and ticks into buildings.
- Ants: While ants don’t carry diseases, but a targeted treatment is necessary. High-rise buildings attract two types of ants:
- Pharaoh Ants—They are small, fast, and hard to eliminate. They live inside near pipes and walls forming large colonies.
- Manhatt Ants—Unlike most ants, they scale high-rises with ease and reach even the top floors.
- Rodents: Rodents love high-rises. The shy-high buildings offer plenty of hiding spots for rodents like inside utility lines, walls, and ceilings. Trash rooms and food storage areas act as the endless buffets. Once inside your apartment, rodents move fast through elevator shafts, plumbing, and electrical conduits. Their droppings contaminate food. They chew wires and insulation that may trigger fire spread out also.
- Cockroaches: High-rise buildings provide everything cockroaches need, food, moisture, and warmth. They spread through utility lines and plumbing, cracks in walls and floors, garbage chutes and trash rooms, etc. They trigger asthma and allergies. Cockroaches spread bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella.
- Bed Bugs: Bed bugs are a nightmare. Once inside the apartment, they spread quickly through walls, hallways, and electrical outlets. These pests can survive up to a year without food causing infestations going on. High-rise buildings face an even bigger challenge because bed bugs spread between different units, make the total elimination a challenge.
What Is the Solution to Keep Your Apartment Pest Free?
Keeping pests out requires teamwork involving property managers, maintenance staff, and residents. The involvement of a pest treatment company, having a knowledgeable team of pest management experts with experience of providing tailored-to-need pest control services, is the only effective way to keep the pests away from your building tower and personal apartment. Ankita Pest Management, having regional offices in Borivali, Goregaon, Mahim, and Thane, may be your perfect choice to get the industry-best pest control services in Mumbai.