2017
Tips You Need To Know On Preventing Pests This Winter
Since winter is approaching, you may be preparing your heating system and decorating for the holidays. You also need to make sure your home is prepared for the potential risk of pests. Termites, cockroaches, beetles, mice, and wildlife may try to enter your home with small cracks and crevices, especially if they sense there is food, moisture, and warmth. Before the winter approaches, use these tips to prevent pests from becoming houseguests during the holiday season:
Why You Need So Many Precautions When Dealing With Dead Mice
You might assume that exterminating mice is a simple job. Find them, starve them, break their necks, and/or poison them; simple enough, right? Actually, no, it is not. Even if there is not a bloody, gory mess left behind from snapped necks and exploding abdomens (mouse poison does this), you still have to dispose of the little corpses. Worse still, you have to be very careful about how you dispose of them.
Three Tips For Finding Temporary Housing As A Digital Nomad
Moving around and living as a digital nomad is a great adventure. However, it can also be quite stressful when it comes to finding a new home in a new city. Here are three ways to make the process a little less painful and risky.
Research the Neighborhoods
While stepping foot in a new city for the first time is invigorating, it can also be daunting if you go in completely clueless.
Tips For Keeping Dirty Mice Out Of Your House
If you want to make sure that your home is free from dirty little mice, you are going to want to consider using all of the following tips. After all, in many cases, keeping mice out of your home will require the use of various methods of prevention and pest treatment. Here are some tips that you might want to start giving a try:
Use Spray Foam Insulation In All Of The Cracks You Find
Are The Cold Winds Bring Pests Into Your Home? Chill Out By Using These 3 Tips To Rid Your Home Of Common Winter Pests
Pest control is a yearlong battle that requires adjusting your approach to fit the changing seasons. While the colder months mean that you can stop worrying so much about ants and mosquitoes, you now find that you have a few new pests to address. As you get ready to prepare your house for the upcoming season, use these tips to keep classic winter pests outside where they belong.
Start With a Seasonal Inspection
Recently Discover A Bat Problem? 3 Things To Know About Safe Removal
The prospect of having bats in your house is enough to make you want to check into a hotel. After all, most people's experiences with bats come from horror movies and news stories that talk about diseases such as rabies. While it is true that bats can carry diseases just like other animals, you should also know that bats play an important role in the ecosystem by helping to keep insect populations down.
3 Important Tips To Prevent A Termite Infestation
Have you recently moved to an area where termites are much more common than where you used to live? Are you confused about how to deal with and prevent these insects from consuming your home and surrounding property from becoming a termite habitat? Left to their own devices, a termite colony can ruin your walls, your roof, your fence, and more in seemingly no time at all. Preventing this from happening is one of the biggest challenges that homeowners may be faced with.
3 Ways To Deal With Pesky Birds On Your Awnings
Birds, as beautiful as they can be, can also be a pest if they hang out on your awning all day, leaving their droppings on your awning. Bird droppings can destroy your awning over time and can be detrimental to your health. Here is a pest control solution you can to do get the birds to move off your awning and onto a different perch.
#1 Use Bird Spikes
Birds like to rest on awnings because they generally have a flat area across the top of the awning, which presents a perfect place for the local bird population to rest.
Steps For Carpenter Ant Pest Control In The Home
Contrary to popular belief, carpenter ants don't eat wood. They do, however, cause damage when they infest homes because they create tunnels through the wood. In addition, the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program states that carpenter ants are capable of biting humans. When they do this, the individual may feel a tinge of pain, which is sometimes followed by a burning sensation. This sensation is caused by the formic acid that the ant sprays into the wound.
Steps To Take In The Spring To Keep Critters At Bay
With spring in full swing, now's the time to think about bug and pest control. Ants, bees, termites and other critters are getting ready to invade your space and create a large family of their own. If you notice a bug problem, the best solution is to call a pest professional to come out right away and eradicate the issue. But, to prevent an infestation or to keep the creepy crawlies at bay, there are a few preventative measures that you can take.