Tips for Eco-friendly pest control
Clean your apartment at regular interval and avoid storing newspapers, paper bags, and boxes for long periods. Also, check for pests in packages or boxes when you carry them to your home.
Don’t let garbage stack up or pile up in your home. Make sure that you don’t have bowls of water, discarded tires, and other receptacles that can contain rain water.
Baking soda and powdered sugar mixed in equal parts is a good Cockroach killer.
Cucumber is natural and non-toxic pesticide to get rid of bugs such as ants, wasps, mites etc.
Soak a cotton ball in the oil of peppermint and place it at a suspected entryway. Mice cannot stand the scent of peppermint or peppermint oil.
Caulking crack in your kitchen or bathroom doors and windows help to minimize the shelter of pests in your home.
More tips and preventive methods are at www.commonfloor.com/articles/pest-control-home-apartment
Great tips! Removing anything that attracts bugs and using these natural repellants are very effective. You can also help keep pests out by plugging any small holes or cracks, even sealing up door jams so that no little bugs can slip through. (A mouse can fit through a hole the size of a pencil!). You can also use all natural products. Green Dragon offers an all natural roach, ant, and waterbug bait that is safe and works for 6months up to one year. It is a great support to the tips mentioned here. You can learn more at www.greendragonpestsolutions.com Keep it Green!!
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