Bars and restaurants can be ultra-attractive to pests, and owners cannot be complacent. These high-traffic establishments provide plenty of sugar-rich and moisture that is a buffet for cockroaches, mice, ants, and flies.

However, evidence of pest activities in your bar or restaurant premises could seriously jeopardize your brand's reputation, attract the wrath of the city health officers, and lose your business and goodwill.

The country's leader in eradicating pests using its services, Mapecon Pest Control, suggested a holistic approach to curbing and controlling pests, whether industrial bugs or inside residential spaces.

Bryan Atienza, assistant national director of Mapecon Philippines Inc., said pest control is imperative to prevent the spread of some diseases and viruses brought by rodents, termites, cockroaches, flies, and mosquitoes, among others.

"Also, termites, bukbok (weevil) can cause damage and compromise the sturdiness of structures like houses and buildings. While others, such as mosquitoes, bring the dengue virus, while rats can cause leptospirosis. We should treat this holistically through finding its root causes or where these pests lair and not just use chemicals in eradicating them," according to Atienza during his interview with the Daily Tribune's digital morning show Gising Na!

As pests are easy to propagate and infest, he said getting rid of them should be done from all angles.

"During the rainy season, dengue cases are surging, even leptospirosis caused by rats. Rats also bite electrical wirings that can cause a fire. It is high time that people invest in dealing with these pests, which have potential dangers innate to them," he said.

But when infestation strikes, he advises not to dwell with pesticides and chemicals that can harm individuals immediately.

"We get rid of these pests because we want a healthy environment. That's why we should also check the kind of pesticides we use to care for our environment and our household members or officemates.