Basic Tips for Controlling Pest In and Around Your Home

According to Wikipedia, the pest is an animal or plant detrimental to humans or human concerns, including crops, livestock, and forestry. This a list of common household pests, undesired animal species or genera that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors, or causing other harms in human habitation structures.

• Mammals: Mice and Rats
• Invertebrates: Ants, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, Beetles, Centipedes, Crickets, Flies, Mosquitoes, Lice etc.

Pests are injurious to the health. Common household pests such as cockroaches, rats, flies, and mosquitoes are carriers for infectious diseases and must be destroyed completely lest they occupy the household.

According to the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), cockroaches in the home environment are a health hazard not only because of the risks posed by cockroach antigens to asthma suffers, especially asthmatic children and the elderly. A cockroach can carry diseases like salmonella typhi which causes Typhoid. poliomyelitis which causes polio.

Mosquitoes also transmit malaria, Dengue fever,  Chikungunya, and Zika virus

Rat-bite and scratches can result in disease and rat-bite fever (RBF). To avoid diseases and sickness, it is necessary to keep our environment clean. Here, are few tips to control pests in and around your home;

• Keep the Entire House Clean

The best and reliable source to control pest from your home is to keep your home clean every day or every other day. Mop your floor regularly with disinfectant every week. Make sure your carpet, rugs, and curtains are clean always

• Dispose Garbage Properly

Get rid of the insect’s sources of food, water, and shelter. Dispose all food waste in sealed plastic bags or containers that have Snap-On lids. Empty your garbage on a daily basis.

• Seal All Openings

No matter how clean your house is, if there are openings in and around the house, then you are inviting pests into your house, Make sure you seal and close all openings.

• Fumigate Regularly

Make sure you fumigate your environment once in a month depending on your location, if you are not fumigating regularly, you are inviting rats, cockroaches and more into your home.

You can save yourself the stress and hire a pest expert in pukena today!