| The art of urban pest management (flies, bedbugs, roaches, and rats): challenges and solutions of the 21st century |
| Paper ID : 1314-3IICE (R1) |
| Authors: |
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Vahid Derakhsh Ahmadi * Department of Plant Protection, Agriculture college, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Iran |
| Abstract: |
| Many urban buildings and neighborhoods in the first half of the twentieth century teemed with pests. Some reformers proposed new urban infrastructure and housing as the solution to pests. Pest control is predominantly an art and requires a dynamic mixture of skill and knowledge to practice. Rational and efficient sanitation could remove wastes that bred and fed pests from the city. Housing reform programs aimed to solve an array of social and environmental problems by either rehabilitating infested homes or else demolishing them and replacing them with modern, healthy structures that were less vulnerable to pests. Many experts promoted modern pest control methods to be practiced by citizens or trained exterminators in residents’ homes. Some tried to teach women how to make their homes healthy in the midst of the urban environment. Others promoted chemical technologies for controlling pests. It is tried to teach women how to make their homes healthy in the midst of the urban environment. Others promoted chemical technologies for controlling pests. Cities across Iran have suffered infestations and launched campaigns to control flies, bedbugs, roaches, and rats. Only a few advocates for pest control combined sanitation, housing reform, domestic education, or pesticide use and the empowerment of people who struggled daily with pests. This article focuses on four animal characters which represent a range of pest types and associated public health problems and the control ways. Pest control industry is sustained on eliminating pest infestation from homes and buildings. But most pest control actions never address possibilities of future infestations and leave gaps for easy re-infestation. |
| Keywords: |
| Pest management, Buildings, Women, Chemical control |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
