Pest Solutions

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Rational Solutions To Pest Control Problems

Preventing Insects and Rodents From Bugging You At Home

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Think of your home in this way:
You keep your doors and windows locked to keep human predators out. Insects and rodents are predators as well. They steal your comfort, and sometimes carry disease, and some, like termites and carpenter ants, actually eat your home!

This is about keeping these predators out of your home using several layers of defence, starting at the outer edges of your property, and working inward.

These suggestions will gradually decrease the pest population in a successive manner, each working as a wall of protection.

If the population is lowered, and the home well sealed, pests should be a very minor problem, manageable with only minimum effort.

1. Your homes interior wall is a barrier to insects and rodents.

2. Your exterior walls are a barrier to insects and rodents.

3. Your homes landscape is either a barrier to insects and rodents, or a bridge into your home.

4. Your homes lawn is either a barrier to insects and rodents, or a bridge into your home.

5. The outermost, "rough" edges of your property are either a barrier to insects and rodents, or a combination breeding ground, headquarters, and staging area for them.

Anything that you do to lower the population in any of these areas will help keep them out of your home!

If you deny them breeding grounds, food and cover in the furthest reaches of your property, the population will be lowered. Using Brush Control as Pest Prevention is the best place to start.

If you deny them food shelter and water in your lawn, the population will diminish further. Lawn Basics

If you deny these things to pests in your landscape beds, and avoid making your landscape a roadway onto, and into your home, the population decreases further still. Prevent pests by using Indoor Pest Prevention Through Better Landscape Plants and Beds. Native plants are a good place to start, so for a Pest Free Landscape? Go Native!

If your homes exterior is well sealed, fewer insects and rodents can gain entrance.

If the inside of your home is well sealed, fewer still can get through. Understanding Pest Routes Of Entry, both interior and exterior, will help you to deal with this problem.

If your home is clean indoors, with no food sources, or water sources available to insects and rodents, there are fewer reasons for them to want to come to visit.

All the parts of your property are interconnected, and each effects the other. For more articles on preventing pests in your home, your lawn, and your landscape go to our Pest Prevention Directory and you will find a wealth of information on preventing all sorts of pests, in all sorts of situations.

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