A lot happens around The Holidays. It is a time of celebration and a season of feasting. It is also a time when those bugs and rodents will start wondering if your home is the right place to spend the winter.
With more food in the house and more cooking going on, more crumbs are going to hit the floor. This is a dinner bell for pests. Ant scouts will report back to their colony and soon you’ll have a trail of ants walking across your kitchen floor. But those ants won’t be content to eat the piece of crust that got kicked into the corner. They’ll be into your dog’s food dish. You’ll find them under your refrigerator. They’ll be crawling on the counters.
Holiday Pest Control Tips – It’s Common Sense
The secret to keeping ants from encroaching on your home or building a satellite colony in your walls is to keep the food sources sealed up and cleaned up.
- Seal trash inside a can with a lid.
- Keep the floors and rugs cleaned regularly.
- Keep pantry items in sealed plastic containers.
- If you spill juice, clean it up thoroughly, even if it ran under the fridge or stove.
- Keep dirty dishes in soapy water till you’re ready to clean them.
- If you keep getting ants, you could have a satellite colony in your walls, or a nice hole those ants are getting in through. You need to call a pest control company to inspect your exterior walls and foundation. They should also do a perimeter spray.