With the warm weather comes picnics, ball games, and bugs. The hatching season is over and now all kinds of crawling critters are swarming around, and if you’re not careful some might try to find their way into your home. Here are a few ways you can keep the bugs at bay during the summer months.
Close Up the Kitchen
When bugs invade a home, the first item on their list is some tasty scraps or crumbs of food. Let the pests know the kitchen is closed by storing dry items (like pasta and flour) in air-tight containers, ditching the fruit bowl, and keeping a lid on the trash can. Following all three of these tips will stop signals that attract bugs from going out.
Stay Dry
The second item on bug’s list will be water. Bugs love, and will thrive, in damp places. This makes bathrooms a prime destination for bugs to live and lay eggs. To get rid of bathroom bugs, a little home improvement will go a long way. Clearing clogged drains, fixing dripping faucets, and cleaning toilets are all great ways to fix up your bathroom and fix your bug problem.
Clear Up Clutter
Bugs love a messy house. It gives them a place to hunker down, and, in some cases, it can even give them food to eat. Silverfish love to chow down on glue, linen, and cellulose. Cockroaches enjoy dining on book bindings and wallpaper paste. This makes storing items like newspaper, magazines, paper bags, mail, bottles, and plastic bags a very dangerous proposition. To get rid of the bugs, get rid of the clutter.
Get Some Offensive Plants
Eliminating attractive environments for pests is a good start, but if you want to go on the offensive, plants are your best bet. By planting certain plants in strategic areas, you can send the bugs down the road. Plants like lemongrass, lavender, basil, and rosemary are all great natural insect repellants.