Exterior Perimeter Service — Zone 2
Our Exterior Perimeter Service (Zone 2) protects the perimeter of your home.
The Xact Impact Natural Pest Management exterior treatment system is different than most other exterior treatment systems. Traditional perimeter treatment (practiced by most pest-control companies) is to broadcast spray a liquid chemical barrier around the outside of your home. Instead of changing the environment in which the insects live (e.g., food, water or harborage), most companies that apply chemical barriers are only masking the true problem. Click here to read the many problems with broadcast spaying (and perimeter spraying).
The Xact Impact Natural Pest Management system uses no sprayed chemical whatsoever. Rather, we use a novel perimeter baiting system with a proprietary mixture of highly effective baits.
Treatment — Exterior Perimeter Baiting
Our primary exterior perimeter treatment is a novel form of baiting using patented bait stations and a proprietary combination of liquid and granular baits.
What is the Treatment?
Exterior baiting strategically places bait around the perimeter of your home and its attached structures and pool (if any). The goal is to place the bait in areas where pests are located or can readily find it through foraging. Unlike other pest-control companies that might use baiting, Xact Impact Natural Pest Management uses a variety of low-toxicity baits, some of which our personnel assisted in co-developing over the past decade. We put all of our baits inside of patented bait stations, making them completely inaccessible to little fingers or paws.
How Does it Work?
The goal of baiting is to entice foraging pests to feed on the bait outside of your home so they have no need to forage inside of your home. Upon feeding, they either die or return to their nest and feed the bait to other members of the colony including the queen. For example, in the case of many ants species, each foraging ant feeds eight to ten ants in the colony. All the pests that eat the bait die and the colony is rendered ineffective.
Benefits
Here are some of the important benefits of using the Xact Impact Natural Pest Management Exterior Perimeter Baiting system:
- No chemical spraying whatsoever.
- Because baits are protected within bait stations, they are safe from mother nature and your sprinklers keeping them fresh for an extended period of time.
- Because we use multiple baits (instead of a one-size-fits-all chemical product), we can pick and choose the baits that we want to use to control your exact pest problem. This approach reduces the negative effects on beneficial insects.
- After years of experience performing exterior baiting, Xact Impact Natural Pest Management Service Technicians know exactly where to strategically place bait stations around your home to obtain maximum results. This is in stark contrast to broadcast spraying that just indiscriminately spews chemicals both inside and outside the target area.
- Many pests change their preference for baits over time (for example, at one time they prefer sweet food and at another time they may prefer protein-based food). Knowing which baits or combination of baits to use and when to use them is something that only time and experience will teach. When it comes to baiting, you can trust Xact Impact Natural Pest Management's years of experience.
- We use a completely natural pest-management system, which means we do not use ANY synthetic poisons. Baits and the baiting process will be harmed if the baits are contaminated by coming into contact with synthetic poisons or cleaners used to remove synthetic poisons (by washing or cleaning hands). There are pest-control companies that use baiting in combination with synthetic chemicals. It is highly likely that any baiting provided by these companies has been compromised and will likely have significantly reduced effectiveness. In many cases, these pest control companies store their baits in close proximity to their liquid chemicals inside of their trucks, so the baits may be compromised even before they enter your home! With Xact Impact Natural Pest Management, you get pure, effective baiting.