Low Impact Pest Control Part 2
Ants can obviously show up at any point, seemingly from nowhere to circle around the most minute drop or speck of fragrant food stuff. Ants can commonly be seen streaming from a nesting area, in a line along walls and floors to their ultimate destination around some stray morsel carelessly dropped or spilled on the kitchen counter or floor.
This is why low impact pest control preventive measures are critical in a kitchen. Because when the first stray pests show up in a house, the first thing they look for is food. If they find it, ramarkably their associated hoard will be close behind. If they don't find food, just like any other nomad, they make their way through and out. The area behind the refrigerator is commonly the grossest place in any kitchen. In fact it's the grossest place in most homes. Crumbs, liquids, open bags of chips, bread and other crusty food items often end up between counter and fridge or behind the refrigerator. These areas are havens for the pests associated with kitchen infestations and should be cleaned on a regular basis.
Often insects breed where they feed. If you notice insects beginning to show up in your kitchen, take any open packages of food, place them in an airtight plastic bag and observe them for a couple of days before consuming. Often the eggs of certain types of bugs will show up in the food they eat. Any food found to or suspected to have any kind of infant critters in them should be thrown into the outside garbage in the sealed bag.
As most long time pet owners know, any dog can get fleas, even though the owner goes to great lengths to prevent the pet's contact with these prolific little parasites. A dog that is kept inside a flea free yard, never gets out, and never goes anywhere can get fleas ....... from the next door neighbor's dog. During warm months, any dog escaping the yard for even a short period of time should be inspected for fleas.
Hunting dogs, pets that spend time outdoors away from home with the owners, and those dogs known to be incorrigible escape artists all should be inspected for fleas. One of the best safeguards against fleas during warm months when they thrive is one of the high end products such as Front Line Flea and Tick Killer. These are applied from tubes in just a few drops volume and really work to keep fleas away or kill existing ones.
Dogs bringing fleas into the house can very quickly cause a whole house to become infested. There is little worse than having guests over to your home and have to pick fleas off of all their exposed flesh. Keeping an eye on and taking preventive measures with pets is the best course of action.
These are just some of the most common situations in which low impact pest control through preventive measures will help ensure a pest free home.
This is why low impact pest control preventive measures are critical in a kitchen. Because when the first stray pests show up in a house, the first thing they look for is food. If they find it, ramarkably their associated hoard will be close behind. If they don't find food, just like any other nomad, they make their way through and out. The area behind the refrigerator is commonly the grossest place in any kitchen. In fact it's the grossest place in most homes. Crumbs, liquids, open bags of chips, bread and other crusty food items often end up between counter and fridge or behind the refrigerator. These areas are havens for the pests associated with kitchen infestations and should be cleaned on a regular basis.
Often insects breed where they feed. If you notice insects beginning to show up in your kitchen, take any open packages of food, place them in an airtight plastic bag and observe them for a couple of days before consuming. Often the eggs of certain types of bugs will show up in the food they eat. Any food found to or suspected to have any kind of infant critters in them should be thrown into the outside garbage in the sealed bag.
As most long time pet owners know, any dog can get fleas, even though the owner goes to great lengths to prevent the pet's contact with these prolific little parasites. A dog that is kept inside a flea free yard, never gets out, and never goes anywhere can get fleas ....... from the next door neighbor's dog. During warm months, any dog escaping the yard for even a short period of time should be inspected for fleas.
Hunting dogs, pets that spend time outdoors away from home with the owners, and those dogs known to be incorrigible escape artists all should be inspected for fleas. One of the best safeguards against fleas during warm months when they thrive is one of the high end products such as Front Line Flea and Tick Killer. These are applied from tubes in just a few drops volume and really work to keep fleas away or kill existing ones.
Dogs bringing fleas into the house can very quickly cause a whole house to become infested. There is little worse than having guests over to your home and have to pick fleas off of all their exposed flesh. Keeping an eye on and taking preventive measures with pets is the best course of action.
These are just some of the most common situations in which low impact pest control through preventive measures will help ensure a pest free home.
The kitchen is the hotbed of activity for roaches and ants in most any home. Roaches that infest any home will show up in the kitchen first, and will clearly make that the center of their nesting feeding activities. Nothing, even rodents, can compare with the nausea created by a roach infestation in the kitchen of a home. Roaches nest in any crevice, can live in refrigerators, multiply very rapidly, and will even spread throughout the interior walls in the areas where they feed. Many a homeowner walking into their kitchen in the middle of the night have heard and felt the sickening crunch of roaches under their feet, and the scurrying around their counters when turning on the lights. And roaches leave plenty of droppings to further add to the pleasure of their presence.