Pro-Team Sierra Manual page 7

Pantry Pests:
Vacuuming dead insects that have emerged from infested pack-
ages of food can help avoid repeated callbacks. The Sierra can also
remove live insects hiding behind the shelf or under shelf paper,
a practice which can keep them from spreading. Some people
are very sensitive and fearful of using pesticides in a pantry area.
Even if a residual is used, new pests can still emerge from cartons
or packages that were infested from the grocery store. The pest
control operator may need to inspect and discard each infested
package in the pantry that contains condiments, grains, candy,
pet food, birdseed, etc.
Fabric pests:
Moths and carpet beetles are increasing, partly because of an in-
crease in international traffic with untreated wool products. Once
introduced into a home or institution, these fabric pests can live in
the accumulation of hair, dead insects and lint behind and under
furniture and along and under baseboards, especially in clothes
closets. Running a Sierra upholstery tool over each wool garment
that has been stored for long periods can dislodge and destroy the
fragile carpet beetle eggs. The PMP can do it as an add-on-service
or the customer can have each garment dry cleaned.
Carpet beetles can enter homes from shrubbery such as Spiraea,
Ceanothus, daisies and wild buckwheat. Other outside sources of
carpet beetle infestations include nest of chipmunks, birds, bats
and bees. Dead insect galleries or birds in a chimney flue or an at-
tic are prime food sources for carpet beetles.
The Sierra has tools that can remove pockets of dead insects from
light fixtures, behind baseboards, hard-to-reach sites on rugs un-
der furniture, dense cobwebs, etc.