How To Keep Pests Away?
Keeping pests out of your home and off your property is important for both the safety of you and your family. Also, to prevent them from causing damage that could lower your property value. The good news is that there are many ways to keep out pests that are both easy and affordable. Before calling your local pest controllers let’s take a look at this list of the top 20 pest control tips. These will surely prevent creepy crawlies from reeking havoc on your property.
1. Spray Away Ants
If ants are getting into your house, you should be able to trace their trail to see where they’re getting in at. Use bug spray on this area and they won’t be able to use this path again. Plus, those ants that are already in the house will die shortly thereafter.
2. Eliminating the Ant Nest
Since there is a chance that the ants could come back through another opening, the best way to prevent this is to destroy their colony. There are a variety of ant killer products on the market that can destroy an ant nest pretty much instantly.
3. Using a Vacuum for Huntsman Spiders
Huntsman spiders are big and scary, which can make getting them out of your house tricky in some cases. An easy way to do this is to use a vacuum cleaner with a long snout on it to suck up the spider from a distance, then dump it outside where it can help defend your property from other pests.
4. Getting Rid of Redbacks
Keeping redback spiders off of your property is similar to keeping cane toads away: deny them the places they like to live. Make sure you pack up kids toys that aren’t being used, don’t leave clothes laying around outside, and clean up any brush piles laying about.
5. Removing Funnel Web Spiders
Funnel web spiders are easily noticeable by the funnel webs they use to catch prey. Removing old stumps and chopping down old trees can deny them areas to set up these webs and breed on your property.
6. Prevent Bed Bugs
Bed bugs rarely get into your home on their own. When you visit a hotel, or the home of a friend or family member, wash all of the clothing you and your family wore before laying down on your bed.
7. Keep Mosquitos Out
Mesh screens on your windows, doors, and around your deck are great for keeping mosquitos out. Just remember that they do suffer wear and tear easily. Also, need to be maintain often to remain effective.
8. Drown Mosquitos
If mosquitos have already gotten into your home, use soap and water to kill them. Mosquitos breed in water so they will be attracted to it, and the soap will kill them.
9. Lure and Kill Fruit Flies
Fruit flies can also be annoying if they get into your home because of how fast they breed. Mix soap, water, and sugar in a plastic bin to lure them in, and kill them.
10. Trap Cockroaches
Cockroaches very common, but not hard to deal with. Try putting down trap pads which will cause the roaches to get stuck, and die.
11. Smoke Cockroaches to Death
In extreme cases of cockroach infestation, using a product that saturates an entire room, or even the entire home, in bug spray is a viable solution. Just be aware that you’ll likely have to leave your home for a time while the spray does its job.
12. Don’t Attract Termites
Keeping termites out of your home means keeping wood piles away from your house so that they’re not attracted to it. You should also keep items such as cardboard, mulch, and paper away as well.
13. Getting Rid of Fleas
Fleas will almost always get into your home via a pet, since they need a host. If your pet gets flees, use medication or take them to the vet ASAP before the fleas breed out of control.
14. Keep Feral Cats Away
Like normal cats, feral cats are always looking for a stable food source. Don’t leave food sitting out, secure your garbage, and make sure you don’t have a rodent infestation problem and feral cats won’t lurk around your property.
15. Defeat a Rodent Infestation
If you have rodents in your house you need to locate and destroy their nests so they won’t breed. Nests can be located in crawlspaces, under porches or in the walls.
16. Disposing of Individual Mice
Once you get rid of the nests, disposing of the remaining mice, and any other mice that enter your home, should be a priority. Set mouse traps with the proper bait, seal up entry points, and consider using sticky traps if necessary.
17. Getting Rid of Wasps and Bees
If you see a wasp nest or bee hive and it’s small enough, you may be able to safely spray it with bug spray to finish them off quickly. However, if the nest or hive is big enough, you’ll have to call the professionals to safely remove it.
18. Keep Flies Out
As one of Australia’s most common pest, flies are a nuisance. You can keep flies out by making sure entry points like doors and windows are properly sealed.
19. Killing Flies Inside
There are many traps and devices to kill flies already in your home. Traps include mixing soap, water, and sugar, the classic soda bottle trap, and sticky fly paper. Devices include options such as bug zappers, guns that fire salt at high velocity to kill flies, and the classic flyswatter.
20. Keeping Out Cane Toads
General tips to keeping cane toads off your property revolve around denying them the environments like like to dwell in such as tall grass, brush piles, and miscellaneous clutter. Any cane toads you find should be killed immediately.
If cane toads are already on your property, you need to kill them immediately. The humane way to dispose of a cane toad is to scoop them up with an implement of some sort, put them into a plastic bag, then put them in the freezer at 4C for 12 hours. Be Sure to wash your hands and the implement you picked them up with afterwards.
Keeping Your Home Safe From Pests
Pest control is all about prevention. Once the pests have already arrived, it’s typically more of a hassle to get rid of them, than to have prevented them from showing up in the first place. Just be aware of how the methods of pest control you use can affect your pets and family. Always put safety first, and try to take action against pests as quickly as possible or they will begin to multiply.
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