Escondido Pest Control Company

When the weather warms up, the creepy things start coming out, looking for food and a good place to mate.  Ants, stink bugs, lady bugs, and spiders all start making their way toward your home. Like most people, these crawlers are uninvited guests.  You start looking for ways to rid your house of these invaders. Here are 3 tried and tested ways that WON’T work: #1 - Cucumber Peels Many of the old wives tales say that if you place the peelings from cucumbers around your sink areas, ants will be repelled. This is NOT true. Ants love food scraps of any kind.  The only thing this old myth will do cause you to have an army of ants crawling all over the peelings and your sink area. Also, what about the other creepy crawlies coming in? Are you going to tape cucumber peels to the ceilings and window frames to keep out stink bugs or spiders? No.  Well then, it’s probably best to skip this ‘remedy’. #2 - Dawn and Glass Cleaner Using a 50/50 mix of Dawn dish detergent (it has to...

5 Ways Your Home is Attractive to Pests Pests such as flies, bed bugs, ants, wasps, rats, cockroaches, and mice are regular visitors to many homes. Many people try very hard to get rid of them, but they keep coming back now and then.  Some simple things we do every day may lead to attracting these unwanted visitors to our homes. Avoiding them makes your home safe for you and your family because pests cause diseases like vector-borne diseases, asthma, and allergies, microbial diseases, and infections.  Research has proven that pests are attracted to specific environments, and paying attention to these areas may help you control pest infestation . The following entices and makes your home welcoming to pests: Moisture Moisture causes damage to structures and encourages the growth of mold. Just like human beings, pests also need water.  Cockroaches and rats get attracted to damp areas and termites like eating wood damaged by moisture.  If you note that your house...