Current Trends in Management of Household Pests. Introduction, Role of Arthropods as disease transmitting vectors on human beings, Bed Bugs, Cockroaches, Mosquitoes, Termites, Housefly, Rodents, Household ants, Insecticides commonly used in household pest management and Selected references

      Аннотация: Urbanisation is a dynamic ecological process, replacing natural ecosystems by destroying and modifying original landscapes and communities and creating new ones. These manmade conditions provide food, water and harbourage the arthropods or act as major hosts of arthropods. In adequate housing, necessities for storage of water, inadequate and polluted water supply, and lack of sewage and waste disposal create substrates are also favour the occurrence of many insects and rodents. Apart from their direct damage, they also act as vectors of many zoonotic diseases to humans and animals. Insects like bedbugs, cockroach, houseflies, termites, mosquitoes cause numerous damage to houses and causes nuscence. Apart from feeding they damage householdings by their excreta and act as breeding reservoirs for many pathogens. Management practices like habitat manipulation, destruction of their food sources, sanitation, cleanness, frequent washing, drying of materials are some of the commonly following practices to escape from these insects.

Ключевые слова: integrated pest management, Management, sanitation, Urban pests, Behavioural manipulation