A few more tips for Clover Mite Control: – Remove all plants, grasses, and weeds within two feet of your home. Once these are removed you can create a band of course sand, wood chips or gravel in its place. The band should fill the area immediately surrounding the foundation. This will prevent clover mites [...]
It has been more than three months since I have owned a working vacuum. A certain member of my family (who will remain nameless) tried to vacuum up a wet and very smelly substance with our upright vac. I tried desperately to clean the vacuum and let it dry but ever after I could not [...]
Got baking soda? Cinnamon? Coffee grounds? Garlic cloves? Basil? If so, a new article from Insectclopedia.com suggests that you might already have all that you need for pest control right in your kitchen cupboard. According to the Insectclopedia website, keeping ants out of the kitchen is as easy as finding the place where the ants [...]
I just saw that one of our customers asked a question on facebook about silverfish control. I have lived in several houses and apartments that had silverfish infestations. You know the ones… the shiny, silver elongated little wisps of alien insects that appear from out of nowhere on walls and scurry away lightening fast when [...]
What are Active Ingredients? Every pest control product has one or more active ingredients. The active ingredient in a formulation essentially gives the product its power to kill, repel, or prevent normal growth. You can determine the active ingredient of any pest control product by looking at the label. When shopping online for pesticides, the [...]
Happy New Year ya’ll! It’s 2012 and I’m back to writing about bugs. Here’s to another year of endlessly wondering why my two brothers couldn’t have chosen a business with more interesting and varied blog topic potential. That’s okay, I’ve already decided I’ll be spicing things up a bit more around here with Off-Topic [...]
1) Ensure that all doors and windows are properly and tightly sealed. When you stand back and look at the crack between your front or back door and its frame, you should not see any gaps or light coming through. If you see either of these, you will need to apply better weatherstripping or possibly [...]
I recently encouraged homeowners to get on top of quarterly pest control. Applying a pesticide spray to the outside perimeter of your home every three months goes a long way in preventing infestations and keeping your home pest free. While spraying pesticide is a simple process, the truth is that many people remain intimidated [...]
Many of the calls we get here at Do My Own Pest Control are from customers who don’t necessarily have any specific bug problem. Instead they are looking for a good preventative chemical that can be applied periodically for year round pest control. Preventative quarterly pest control is an effective and economical way to go about [...]
The KSAT news team in San Antonio Texas ran a story yesterday on the hazards of do-it-yourself bed bug treatments. KSAT reports that “the government says those treatments have already proven to be dangerous, with one person dying and dozens more getting sick”. Certainly this claim of do-it-yourself bedbug control methods being the direct [...]
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