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Coby here with oby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, and we’re going to talk about the weather and Florida bugs now, right now we are when this is being recorded. We are in a very, very wet time of the year, and you never know when these are going to happen, but when they do, things get much, much more active. And I say that if it’s wet and cold, not so much. Rodents would probably go ahead and move a little bit more under those conditions, but roaches and ants, not so much. They are getting slowed down because of the the cold. Anyway, it’s cold enough, it’ll freeze them in the kill them. But most of the time they are in Florida that it never gets cold enough for them to go ahead and actually do that. So in the summertime, though, if you think about it, they are there, they don’t have blood, so it’s, it’s, what do you call it? The inner fluids will go ahead and warm up, and as they warm up, they get much more active and prolific, as far as breeding and whatnot. They also have most of the insects that are going to swarm via reproduction, mostly ants, they’re going to swarm during this time period, great period, time periods from April to October for Florida residents in the Tampa Bay Clearwater St Pete area. So let’s see probably 75% of our calls, and one of the reasons that is, is because you have literally gone ahead and flushed them out of their flush them out of their their homes, and so now they’re moving, and they need to relocate. And usually like to relocate your house. So that’s that’s one of the big things. The other thing that can happen is, is that they will go in when there’s not a lot of water we have. The dry periods, they always go in a dormant state, as far as they know there’s not so the more they move, the more likelihood they’re going to dehydrate and and or die dry wood hermits are great example of that. All they need is a dry piece of wood to survive, and so they don’t need any water, per se, to do that. However, if they have a leak in an area, they that they speed up the process. They know that that when they’re very methodical with their movements, because they like so they dehydrate and die. But if they have the extra water, speeds them up a little bit. And actually, that’s one of the the parts with our treatments that we injected to the attic. Go in the attic and spread out the bare wood injected into the walls. It spikes when you use 20, 3040, gallons of product. It spikes into the into their homes, and that gets them more active, and then more active gets them into products we use. The same thing is basically true with the roaches and ants. When we treat we look to the areas that are going to be the most likely harbor areas, knowing that when it rains, they’re going to come out of there, so which you’re on top of, and then closer to the home, the eaves, they’d love to go up in your attic, around the windows, doors, those are all places they like to get in as well. So we try to hit all those areas where they know it’s going to be problem. But the weather, summer heat, as well as rain causes things to move and or become much, much more active. So that’s the my little spiel on weather and Florida bucks. So hope you find that helpful. If you have questions about this or anything else, please give us a call the please. Yeah, just give us a call. We’d love to talk to you. You have a great day. Bye.
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