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Scottsdale Pest Control – Preventing Pest Problems

 

Preventing Pests

The best way to deal with pests is to prevent them in the first place. Prevention is critical because once a problem starts, it can quickly become an infestation. Some of the steps you can take to prevent pest problems include:

1. Remove food sources – Roaches, termites, and other pest all need food and water to survive, just like any other living creature. The easiest way to prevent them is to remove their food and water source. Living in the desert areas in Scottsdale, water and food sources are not usually naturally occurring, these items are provided by homeowners in most cases. Sources of food and water can come from landscaping irrigation that may be over used. For example, leaving the sprinkler system on too long or running it too often can create a perfect water source for termites and other lawn pests.

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2. Exclusion – Exclusion involves removing any opportunity for pests to get inside of your home. This is crucial to keeping them out and it’s also an obvious way to protect your home. This process can be quite extensive and can involve some possible construction type work. Some of the steps may include simply caulking holes  that lead inside of walls. Typically this can be found around water pipes that lead into the house. Pest find the water source and simply follow the path which leads inside the home.

Other exclusion areas that are fairly simple to implement is the weather stripping around doors. This is an area where bugs and just walk right into the home. Replacing the weather stripping to make sure it seals completely will block bugs from entering.

3. Regular Pest Control – Having your home treated on a monthly or bi-monthly basis is a great way to prevent pest of all kind. Many people think that they have to have bugs already in order to need pest control, but having your home treated before bugs arrive is the best case scenario. Contact a Scottsdale pest control company today to get a quote on pest control service.

 

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Cost of Pest Control

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Don’t Let the Cost of Pest Control Stop You

With spring just around the corner, you may be waiting to get pest control service going in your home until it warms up a bit more. Or, you may be waiting for more bugs to start showing up at your door step. Don’t Do It. It is not too early to get pest control services started now. Many homeowners will wait until their home is completely infested with roaches or some other critter until they pick up the phone to call a pest control company. While Big Guns Pest Control is equipped to deal with severe infestations, there are obvious reasons why you, as the homeowner would not want to wait until the situation gets that bad.

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Many people have hesitations about calling a pest control company because they think it will cost too much. You will see these type of people at Wal-Mart or Home Depot picking up the cheapest brand of pesticide off the shelf. Many of the calls that we receive are from homeowners that have tried this method. It typically just makes matters worse and wastes a lot of money. By the time they get around to calling a pest professional, they would have already spent more than the cost of the professional.

While it is a good idea to shop around and make sure you are getting the best price on pest control services, there are also some other things that you should consider. You want to make sure that the problem will actually be eliminated and not just put a band aid on the real issue. Some of the over the counter pesticides will do just that. They will kill the easy to find bugs that may be walking across the kitchen floor, but they do not get to the source of the pest problem. There are likely hundreds of bugs hidden in places that these pesticides just won’t get to.

Save yourself time and money by calling in the experts today. Call Big Guns Pest Control

Bed Bug Inspections

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The Importance of a Bed Bug Inspection

If you think for a second that you may have bed bugs in your home, the first thing you should do is call a pest control company for a bed bug inspection. Often you may be able to find companies who will perform the inspection for free. This is a necessary step in eliminating bed bugs because if the bed bugs can not be found, they can not be eliminated. The process of inspecting for bed bugs is something that a home owner can and should do themselves. The pest control company should really be a second set of eyes to make sure that every crack and crevice is searched.

Some tools you will need before getting started include a powerful flash light, possibly a magnifying glass (depending on how good your eyesight is), and rubber gloves, oh, and a lot of time.

The obvious first place to search is the bed and bedding material. The mattress is a very common place to find bed bugs. Be sure to check all along the seams and any folds in the mattress. The box spring is actually the most common place to find bed bugs. That’s because there are so many places for bed bugs to hide.When searching the box spring, make sure that you remove the black lining and staples as these are ideal hiding spots for bed bugs. Be sure to also check the head board, and the feet of the bed. Every possible place should be searched.

The inspection should include searching the walls of the home where the carpets or flooring meets the wall. Bed bugs like to hide in these little spots. When searching, you are looking for any evidence of bed bugs. This could include bed bug waste material, which looks like a black ink spot, or you may see tiny salt pepper like material. You may also notice blood stains, dead bed bugs, or bed bug castes.