Insect Pest Management:
World-wide, insects cause $Billions of dollars in contamination and damage to food and produce for human consumption. Insects impacting commercial food production include stored product pests (moths and beetle of various species), cockroaches, flies and the like.
In addition, some insect species spread disease (flies, cockroaches and mosquitoes), cause havoc (bed bugs), damage natural fibres and clothing (textile moth and carpet beetles), destroy wooden buildings (termites), inflict bites and stings (ants and wasps), and so on.
Insect’s impact 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Industrialised Nations and at times, up to 25% of the GDP of developing nations. From a business perspective, Australia food producers need to protect food retail, production and storage to ensure an efficient outcome, reduced spoilage and contamination. Equally, companies must avoid insects’ impact to product integrity, company reputational damage, customer complaints and ultimately costly product recalls.
While there is a firm hold of pesticide use for insect control; PestIT’s commitment is to develop modern, non-toxic and technology advancements to insect pest management as it is for rodent and bird management.