The cleanest of homes once in a while have some domestic pests such as rodents scuttling after a jar of sugar, mosquitoes sliding into the chimney and bedbugs making themselves at home in your mattress and bedding. So at some point all houses require these pest management methods. Before leading to compounds, try the following home remedies first for a green globe.
Maintain your house very clean.
The very first thing that brings domestic pests is dirtiness. A Simple spill onto the desk may attract ants into your house. Wipe off spills as soon as they happen. Mow grass and cut all bushes around the house to keep away mosquitoes that breed in such places. Empty your dust bins daily. If you’re cutting corners with your home cleaning, pests will detect and move in. Reach out to all corners in the routine cleaning.
Ensure proper air circulation.
Pests like dump and dark places with no direct breeze to habit and breed. Make sure your home is not dark,has free air circulation and is dry. If need be, use humidifiers to maintain the furthest house corners that can’t be washed daily dry.
Eliminate entry points into your house.
Take time to look around to see that you don’t have unnecessary entry points that could be ushering in pests into the comfort of your home. Fill up holes, repair floors and fill up crevices that could harbor pests. The longer you postpone fix, the bigger chance of pests coming in. Before bringing some food plants and products to the home, look out for any infestation to prevent transfer of pests.
Starve the organisms.
You do this by eliminating all the sources of their food and water. Dispose food waste to sealed bags or snap-lid trash bins and empty daily. Store fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator. Confirm dry food electronics like sandwich makers are crumb free. With time, the pests will voluntarily leave your house in pursuit for survival.
Confirm your bedding dry well before folding.
When bedbugs assault your bedroom, they may be real headache. Clean your bedding habitually and make sure they dry well . Once every so often, air your mattress to divert any bugs that may have been trying to reproduce.
Utilize home solutions.
These include the things we use every day like salt that stop ants from spreading any further. Ground coffee granules are spread on the areas with bedbugs. It brings them to it and out of their hide outs. Small pieces of food can be used as bait to trap the rodents in the house.
Don’t keep chosen crop in the house.
Stored crop attracts pests like weevils that spread to any other cereals in the house and start crawling up walls in a short time. All grain should be held in a separate store room in airtight containers or pesticides added into their packages.
Do not leave food remains at the plates.
The aroma automatically attracts pests like the cockroaches to feast on it. Food from pets’ bowls should be cleared as well. The one day pests find food in these areas, they will come back over and over again.
If the condition is very bad, call the experts. After multiplication pests may get to an uncontrollable level, especially bedbugs. This is when you call on exterminators to rid you off the menace. Nevertheless, as long as it’s not that serious, integrated pest control is affordable, environmental friendly and works for domestic use.