Summer is on the way and soon the outside will be heating up. While this is the perfect time for humans to throw open the windows and head out to work in the garden, it’s also the perfect time for pests to take over your garden or worse make their way into your home where it’s cool and the food is plentiful. From ants to roaches and from spiders to fleas and ticks, indoor pests are awful during the summer months.
You could, of course, run out and buy the pesticides and other chemicals to rid your garden and your home of these intruders, but it’s not safe, healthy for your family or good for the environment in any way. With that in mind, read on below for a few tips for fighting indoor pests the healthy, safe, and green way this summer season.
“From ants to roaches and from
spiders to fleas and ticks,
indoor pests are awful during
the summer months.”
Call in Organic Pest Control
Organic pest control has become an extremely popular way of ridding your home of unwanted pests. It’s healthy for you and your family, safe to use because there are no harmful chemicals involved, and safe for the environment. Joshua’s Pest Control in San Diego is an organic pest control company who can rid your home of bugs the safe and eco-friendly way. Calling in the professionals is not admitting defeat. They have the products and a pest control pan to rid your home of whatever indoor pests have moved in to keep cool over the summer months.
Natural Ways to Rid Your Home of Ants and Roaches
Diatomaceous Earth
Ants are often the bane of a homeowner’s existence during the summer months. One of the best natural products to use, and eco-friendly as well is Diatomaceous Earth, also known as DE. A talc-like powder, when sprinkled and walked through by ants, or even roaches, it absorbs the liquids in their bodies and they soon dehydrate, shrivel up and die.
Keep it Clean
The best and most eco-friendly way of keeping spiders and roaches out of your home is to keep it clean. Make sure to clean up messes and spills on counters and floors right away and never leave dishes in the sink or the trash in the can at the end of the night.
Natural Ways to Rid Your Home of Spiders
Peppermint
One of the best ways to stop spiders from invading your home this summer is by spritzing peppermint essential oil on any surfaces that the spiders frequent. Mix a few drops of the peppermint essential oil with just a squirt of liquid detergent in a bottle and send the spiders scurrying back out the way they came in.
Eliminate the Places They Hide
Spiders love the dark and the clutter. Make sure to keep any debris, such as boxes, wood piles or even thick plants away from your home so they won’t be tempted to hide in them and then make their way inside.
These are just a few of the eco-friendly, safe, and healthy ways you can get rid of the indoor pests that flock to homes in the summer months. Making sure to use these methods and call in organic pest control is the best way to have a pest-free summer for everyone involved.
What are your favorite tips for fighting indoor pests in a healthy, safe, and green way?
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Great tips! Thank you. Pinning! 😀
Diatomaceous earth works on centipedes, too. I love it! Most crawly critters don’t bother me much, but centipedes are like spines running around without bodies–horrifying!!
I didn’t know peppermint was a spider repellent! Thanks for sharing on the #WasteLessWednesday Blog Hop!