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What Can You Do To Keep Pests Away This Summer?

26 April 2017

Evan Patterson

Summer is more than cookouts and swimming pools. The warmer weather also means that pests are more likely to increase in your home and yard. Keeping the pests away is going to take putting into place pest control practices the minute the weather warms up. Here are several measures you can take to protect your home and yard.  

Eliminate Standing Water

Warmer temperatures and standing water are attractive to mosquitoes and other pests. Unless you want to spend the summer swatting at mosquitoes, you need to get rid of pools of water in your yard now. To kickstart your pest control efforts, walk the yard and look for standing water. If possible, you can drain the water right then. If it is not possible, you need to focus on future prevention. 

You also need to look for the source of the water and take care of it. For instance, if the standing water is the result of uneven terrain, fill the hole until it is even. You might have to refill it several times before the soil fully settles, but it will help to eliminate the standing water.  

Time Your Waste Disposal

Certain types of waste can attract pests in cool conditions. In the summertime, the attractiveness of the waste significantly increases and makes it even more challenging to keep your home pest-free. When you place the waste in the trash bins outdoors, the pests move in at a rapid pace. Therefore, it is important that you time the dumping of your waste.  

For instance, try to hold onto meat scraps in a sealed container in your home until close to waste removal day. The sealed container will hide the odor from the meat and placing it outside right before the waste removal trucks arrives prevents the pests from discovering it.  

Hire a Pest Control Service

At the start of the summer, hire a pest control service to help get ahead of the pest issues. An exterminator can evaluate your home and lawn to determine further steps you can take to prevent a pest infestation as the weather heats up. He or she can also evaluate your current pest control measures to help determine just how effective they are.  

The exterminator can also provide pest removal services. The exterminator can set up a schedule for regular maintenance of your home to keep pests away as the summer passes and the cooler weather arrives. Contact a business such as All American Wildlife, LLC for more information. 

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