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Things you can do to help keep pests under control
A. Starr
Around your homes, there are a number of things you can do to prevent attracting pests.
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Did you Know....
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There are more insects
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Fall is coming
A. Starr
The bug's that you were seeing seem to have disappeared.
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Things you can do to help keep pests under control
Around your homes, there are a number of things you can do to prevent attracting pests. This includes keeping your yards well maintained with plants pruned and fertilized, which reduces pest access to structures and keeps plants healthy, disease and pest resistant. Try not to store items next to your homes that remain unmoved for long periods of time. This provides shelter for a number of pests. Keep excess mulch and leaf droppings picked up, and away from the foundation. This is a favorite food source for those big outdoor roaches, and a favorite harborage and structure access for many other insects including ants, pill bugs, and earwigs. Change out those white incandescent porch lights for yellow, low compact fluorescent bulbs. This will reduce the attraction of nighttime flying insects, which will reduce the number of spiders attracted to those insects, and this will save energy and do something good for the environment. |
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Did you Know....
Did you know….
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth. |
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Fall is coming
The weather is getting cooler. The leaves will soon fall off the trees. The bug's that you were seeing seem to have disappeared. Yeah!! Not really so. Sorry. They are still around your home, under the ground a little or deeper in the walls. A lot of us think we don't need our pest control guy to come out in these colder months. But it is just as important now as it was in the spring. Maybe more important. If you keep a regular maintenance with your pest control throughout the year it helps to reduce the large influx of insects next spring. Our Greater Austin area here has very mild winters and fall months, we usually only have a true freeze for just a few days. To really decrease the insect population you need a real freeze for at least 2 weeks straight. So the milder weather is a plus for some of us who don't like really cold winter, we have company ( the bug's like this weather also). |
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