1. Before bringing cardboard, house plants, grocery market bags, paper bags, or soda pop items into your home ,inspect for bugs that may be hiding. Make sure to remove pests is they are present or throw away the items
2. Firewood should be kept away from the foundation of the house. Also keep it off the ground. Shake the logs before bringing them indoors.
3. Clean floors will discourage nighttime feeders. Make sure to clean kitchen floors whenever food is spilled. It s best to use a anti microbal cleaner on kitchen floors.
4. Inspect the home for possible entry points. screen or chalk areas to seal openings around your doors, pipes, windows, A/C lines. This will also help you decrease your energy bills.
5. Trim tree limbs so they don't touch the house. Trim the shrubs so they don't become a harborage for insects or rodents.
6. Powdered chalk or used coffee grounds around the foundation will protect your patio and porch from ant infestation.
7. Always keep the lids on your garbage cans. Dont let food sit in the trash you keep in the kitchen. Clean the cans on a regular basis with disinfectant or bleach. It is best to use trash bags.
8. Inspect the outside of the house each month from July to frost. Yellow jackets will appear overnight. Get them before they eat through the dry wall.
9. Lime peels can help. Gnats and mosquitoes hate the smell of oranges, lemons, and limes, so try taking a bag of citrus peels along with you on your next hike. Rub the peels over your exposed skin to repel the bugs.
10. Make your own repellent with vanilla extract. Take a clean, empty spray bottle and fill it with one cup of water and one tablespoon of vanilla extra. Spray and wipe onto your skin and you won't be bothered by some types of bugs.
Information:
Mike Grace, owner of TNT Exterminating Company and president of the Ohio Pest Control Association, has been in the Cleveland Pest Control industry for 23 years. With all that experience, Grace preaches, A good offense is a good defense, to all his customers. Zephylia K wrote about Pest Control Cleveland
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