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Types of Venomous Snakes in Florida and What You Should Do If You Encounter One

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Snakes are a part of summer more than any other season because they love the sun. They love basking in it because of their own cold nature and that is why it is so important to watch your step because they are everywhere, especially in the south. Types of Venomous Snakes Found in Florida: Pit Vipers Pit Vipers got their name based on the heat-sensitive pits that are found on either side of their head. Of all the venomous snakes found in Florida,  five of them are Pit Vipers. Pit Vipers have very distinct characteristics: Thick blocky head Thick body Rough looking scales Dark facial band Types of Pit Vipers Cottonmouths: are often confused with other non-venomous snakes are Florida’s most aquatic snake can be found in North Florida in ponds, wetlands, lake, and rivers can grow up to 6 feet long, but are usually 2-4 feet in length feed on frogs, mice, fish, and small mammals have a while lining in their mouth that can be seen when they are in their aggressive stance h
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The Deadliest Diseases Bats Can Carry

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Bats have been given a bad rep for years and while not all the stories behind bat-phobia are real, the one about bats carrying deadly diseases is. Bats carry 60 or more different types of deadly diseases known as zoonoses (diseases transmitted from animal to human). Here is a list of some of them: Ebola Ebola is a filovirus that causes hemorrhagic issues which compromise blood clots. It is a fatal virus that spreads quickly (in waves) and usually kills hundreds of people until it finally dies out itself. In recent years, the virus mutated and became an even more infectious disease. Bats are an extremely likely source of the Ebola virus. Marburg Marburg is a filovirus that causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans that is often fatal. The largest outbreak occurred more than a decade ago where it was present in 252 cases, 90 percent of them being fatal. The Egyptian fruit bat is a natural host of the Marburg virus. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndro
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Steps in How We Ensure Bats Do Not Return to Your Home

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Bats are creatures that most people like to see from a distance but are not creatures we want living in our attics. Outside of the old folklore about bats being vampires and all, bats carry diseases and can transmit them to humans. If you’ve got a bat problem in your home, Wildout Animal and Pest Removal can take care of it for you and here’s how: Step #1: Inspection The most important step in the whole pest removal process is to find out where the pests are gaining access to your home. These access areas are known as entry points and Wildout looks in known and even unknown areas for them. The inspection process is completely free and helps Wildout to discover what sort of treatment plan is needed. Step #2: Control Once the entry points have been detected they have to be closed up. Some pest removal methods rely on trapping pests before closing up the entry points, but the removal of bats works differently. Instead of trapping, Wildout works to control the bats until there is a sa
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Removing Fall Time Wildlife From Your Commercial Property

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Fall for many people is the most beautiful time of the year. Crisp leaves, the smell of baked pies in the air, and of course, pumpkin patches as far as the eye can see. It’s also a wonderful time for businesses because most people start on holiday shopping. What customers don’t want to see however is wildlife around a business. A few birds or a squirrel here or there isn’t usually a cause for concern, but anything more than that and people tend to leave the business and never come back. Common Wildlife and How to Remove Them: Birds Birds like to hang around businesses because it is the best place that they can find something to eat. Naturally, businesses have a lot of traffic, especially fast food places where people are always dropping food. Food that draws the interest of pests and keeps them coming back. Birds can be seen at any business though. You don’t want to use poison to get rid of any birds because 1. It’s inhumane and 2. Because they are not really effective. If you do h
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Fall Time Pests: Everything You Need to Know

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Fall is just right around the corner, which means the leaves will start changing color and the aroma of pumpkin-spiced treats will start filling the air . Also, it means that the pests that have mostly been staying outside will now start coming into our homes too. Here is the information you need to know about fall time pests: Bees: While they thrive in warmer temps, a bee can continue to forage during temps of 55 or higher. This means that we won’t start to see them disappear until about mid-fall. Instead, they continue to forage food for their hive to eat during the cold winter months. They have switched from needing the protein that feeds their young to craving the carbs that are essential before they start to die off. Worker bees specifically spend many hours collecting enough carbs (nectar) and protein (pollen) to feed and maintain their colony during the winter months. Since bees are so important to our environment and they are quickly dying off, here are a few things you can
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Commercial Property Bird Control and Why it Matters

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Owning and managing a business is hard enough without having to deal with pests and one particular type of pest that likes to hang around commercial properties is birds. Birds create problems for businesses because they build nests that can clog drain pipes or create fire hazards around electrical wires. They also leave their droppings wherever they feel like it, which ultimately creates safety concerns since their droppings contain diseases that are transmittable to humans. It’s important to have regular pest control for your commercial property for many reasons, but let’s start with the most pressing: Bird droppings contain transmittable diseases: Birds transmit more than 60 diseases in their droppings which is many more than I can cover in this article. So here are a few: Avian Influenza: also known as “bird flu” or “H5N1 virus” is a deadly disease for humans, it can cause symptoms that are more severe then the flu such as high fever, cough, respiratory difficulties and muscl
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Deadliest Diseases Rodents Carry

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Rodents are not pests that you want to see in your home for many reasons: they breed frequently and in large numbers, they can cause a massive amount of damage, and of course, they carry many diseases. Diseases that can be very harmful to humans and cause a multitude of different ailments such as vomiting, headache, muscle aches, skin rashes, fever and some can even be life-threatening. Here are the six deadliest diseases that rodents carry: Hantavirus: This virus can be found in both rats and mice and it can be life-threatening. There is currently no vaccine for this virus which can cause symptoms like nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, and muscle aches. LCMV (Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis): This virus is usually found in common house mice and occurs in two stages The first stage comes with symptoms of nausea, vomiting, muscle aches, headaches, and lack of hunger. The second stage affects a person neurologically with symptoms of meningitis, encephalitis, or men
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