Have the swarms of ants, aphids, termites, and other pests started to feast to feed on your fabrics and gobble up your garden? Then maybe it’s about you start thinking about exterminating them. The most important aspect that has to be taken care of in the pest extermination procedure is f using the least toxic method as the toxic you make use of during this procedure can bear a hazardous impact on your body too. Many chemical pesticides available in the market possess equal proportions of positive and negative effects.
Enlisted below are a few steps that can be adopted by you to take care of the pest problem:
- Seal off all the entranceways of pests into your house like the cracks and crannies, openings around pipes and heating ducts with help of a caulking gun.
- Eliminate all the areas of your house which you think can be a favourable breeding ground for pests. These are the areas that damp and are poorly supplied by a drainage system. If there is wooden flooring in your house then make sure you repair all the rotten sections of it.
- Detect the potential of pests by confirming them as termites or other house-eating bugs. Normal termites may take up several years to damage your house’s quality while Formosan termites require only a few months’ time to accomplish this goal.
- If you think that the termites are highly aggressive in their action, then the best way of exterminating them would be of calling a pest inspector. Pest inspectors use many tactics of their own as they probe, tap, and look around for the pests. Some of them even use dogs as a part of the pest extermination procedure.
- Boric acid is a potential component of every other pest extermination procedure as it is effectual at treating the localized infestations of ants, silverfish, firebrats, fleas, and cockroaches.
- Chlorpyrifos is yet another chemical pesticide that bears the potential of killing carpenter ants, powderpost beetles, carpet beetles etc.
- Insect soap sprays can be used for plant sucking pests. The ingredients of these sprays penetrate the waxy covering of plant sucking pests and disable the functioning of their nervous system. You can also prepare an insect spray of your own by preparing home-based admix of 3 to 6 tablespoons of dishwashing soap and 1 gallon of water. Test the damaging effect of spray on the plant first by spraying it just on one leaf of the plant.
