3 Essential Steps For Effective Pest Control

Effective pest control is more than just spraying pesticides around your yard and home. Insecticide is an important part of keeping insects away, but other things are important too. An exterminator can help you understand why your home has a pest problem and teach you ways to deal with it so you can eliminate pests and keep from attracting them again. Here are three essential steps in pest control.

1. Use Of Insecticides

Insecticide treatments are important around the perimeter of your house since pest problems often start outdoors and find their way inside. Applying a product that has a residual effect will keep a barrier around your house that kills common bugs that get too close to your home.

Treatments are sometimes necessary indoors too for treating infestations when they occur. The pest control company helps monitor your property for insect problems so they can provide the best treatments that get rid of insect pests before they multiply out of hand.

2. Control Of Habitat

When you have a lot of insects indoors, that's usually a sign of a habitat imbalance. For instance, if you have a lot of insects that act as a food supply, your home may have a lot of spiders. Killing off insects kills off a food supply for predator insects and helps with pest control.

Pests are drawn by other types of food besides insects. It's important to eliminate their food source by keeping food in the pantry sealed and cleaning up crumbs in the kitchen. Pests are drawn by water too, so fixing drips in plumbing is an important step in pest control.

3. Block Their Entry

Pests can enter your home through the roof, siding, cracks along windows, gaps under the door, and cracks in the foundation. Where there's a gap or crack on the exterior of your house, there's a potential opening for bugs and spiders to get inside your home.

Exclusion techniques are another important step in pest control. Your exterminator may provide this service or you can do it yourself. This involves using caulk to fill cracks and metal mesh to plug holes so pests stay outdoors where they belong. When you control the environment in your home, you'll attract fewer insects, but some insects get inside your home accidentally when they're wandering around in search of food.

Blocking entry points for pests that are searching for food and shelter is a good way to keep all kinds of pests outdoors and you'll even seal up air leaks so your home is more energy efficient. 

For more info about pest control, contact a local company.