| 10 Home Remedies to Keep the Bugs Away |
| Written by Mike Grace | |||
| Thursday, 20 August 2009 05:07 | |||
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1. Prior to bringing grocery bags, plants, cardboard, paper bags, or pop items into your home ,inspect for insects that may be hiding. Make sure to remove pests is they are present or throw away the items. This is a common way for fruit flies to enter
1. Prior to bringing grocery bags, plants, cardboard, paper bags, or pop items into your home ,inspect for insects that may be hiding. Make sure to remove pests is they are present or throw away the items. This is a common way for fruit flies to enter 2. Store firewood away from the foundation of the home. Also keep it off the ground. Shake off the logs before bringing them into the house. 3. Keep floors clean by eliminating food sources for those pesky night time feeders. It s best to use a disinfecting 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 low hanging tree limbs so they don't touch the home. Keep the shrubs trimmed so they don't become safe harbor 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. Citrus peels can help. Mosquitoes and gnats hate the smell of oranges, lemons, and limes, so try taking a bag of citrus peels along with you on your summer outing. Rub the peels over any exposed skin to keep the bugs away. 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. Free Articles: Mike Grace, owner of TNT Exterminating Company and president of the Ohio Pest Control Association, has been in the Canton 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 Cleveland Exterminators
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