Hello World! Welcome Friends! You don’t always have to take extreme measures to get rid of annoying flies, ants, mice, cockroaches, and other house pests living inside your home. On the contrary, you can always take a more environment-friendly approach to help you deal with this menace more practically. So, before you begin tearing your home apart, try these natural ideas first and make your house pest-free.
1. Professional Pest Control Service
No homeowner enjoys the sight of ants: cockroaches, flies, and other household pests in their living space. However, controlling them is not always a piece of cake and can be a complicated matter.
Many homeowners first try to get rid of this pest by using a few simple tricks and products easily found in a household. All these methods have one thing in common: they provide homeowners with a chemical-free pest control solution. But these measures don’t always help you get rid of those bed bugs, making your life a living nightmare.
So, when a situation is more demanding than you had initially thought, opting for a professional pest control company can save you from a lot of trouble. And when you somehow always find bed bugs making your life miserable, you know you need to take a different approach. And with Bed Bug Pest Control, you not only get to sleep comfortably but also create a pest-free home. Moreover, a team of experts will take care of every environment-related concern that you have with pest control.
2. Survey the Outdoors of Your Home
Take care of the branches that touch your house by trimming them; you might not know that ants feed on aphids in trees and use branches as bridges to enter your home. Try finding the holes and gaps present in soffits and fascia, especially the point where they run into each other (on the adjoining rooflines).
Similarly, a missing or chewed-through scream on roof vents becomes an entry point for bats, squirrels, and other household pests into your attic. Finally, you can end all entry points once and for all by closing or adding a chimney cap if you don’t already have it. They will also stop birds and rodents from entering your place during the hot summer days when most house chimneys are not used and become an accessible entrance for pests inside your home.
3. Find and Eliminate Ant Trails
If you see one ant, the chances are that you’ll soon find a whole trail of ants. It’s because ants leave a scented trail for other ants to follow them to get to a particular destination. And to your surprise, moping or simply sweeping won’t help you throw off the scent.
Instead, try using this natural approach. In a spray bottle, add one-third of vinegar with two-thirds of water, and spray it wherever you have seen ants roaming inside your home. This will take the scent off of your premises, which will stop outdoor ants from searching for food inside your home.
However, the ants that live inside your home may not be affected by this approach, and you will have to get rid of them by removing them with ant bait.
4. Keep Your Kitchen Clean and Tidy
Finding a trail of ants (or worse) when you enter your kitchen searching for food is the fastest way to lose your appetite. While sealing the gap that the pests are coming from is the best way to make sure they don’t find their way back inside your home. But if it isn’t working, you can keep them from wanting to come back to your kitchen by keeping it clean.
But, don’t start getting tired already, because cleaning the kitchen doesn’t mean you have to do a deep clean in a single day. All you need to do is make sure no leftovers are lying around your kitchen shelf, which could attract more ants in search of food. Also, make sure you put a lid on anything with food stored in it, check for spills, wash the dishes in the sink, and always watch for spoiled fruits and vegetables.
If you have a kitchen at the back of your house, you might have one of your kitchen doors leading out onto your back garden, which gives pests easier access. When the summer heat comes, flies are always ready and waiting to pounce on any food that’s available, so if you want to cook with the back door open, it would be a wise decision to install fly screen bunnings to keep them out of your kitchen and away from your food. Following this simple rule can save you from a lot of trouble and help you keep your home pest-free.
5. Use Basil to Keep Flies Away
Flies can not stand the fragrance of basil plants. As a result, they don’t try to come closer to objects in the vicinity of these plants. So, if your home is infested with house flies and you can’t stand them anymore, try growing some basil in pots and place them around the windows sills inside or outside (depending on the weather) of your home. Even when you have the required sunlight or space to grow your basil, you can still place dried-out basil and put it in cheesecloth pouches. Rub these pouches on the windows wherever you get some free time. This will keep the scent more potent and keep flies from entering through open doors and windows of your home.
6. Clean Up and Organize the Yard
The most rational way to protect your home against pests is to control the number of bugs that take up residence or already living in your yard—as a result, making the whole area inaccessible and inhospitable.
Well, one could argue that there is no way to altogether remove insects or bugs from your yard (nor should you try doing that for ecological reasons), you can minimize the limit of their stay by removing overgrown tree limbs, shrubs, grass clippings, and other paraphernalia from your yard.
They might seem harmless, but soon without you even knowing it, they will find a way inside your home, and it is a lot more complicated. So, to avoid such scenarios from happening, make sure you keep your yard clean and organized.
To Sum It Up
To keep your home bug and pest-free, use the tips mentioned above and enjoy your time in a pesticide and chemical-free home. Also, using these methods can help you save a lot of money and time in the long run. But make sure that you are applying these methods regularly to benefit from them as long as possible. If you still can’t get rid of these troublesome pests inside your home, contact a pest control company that can do the job for you. With their knowledge and expertise, you’ll get to live and breathe in a pest-free home in no time.
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