How To Do Your Own Pest Control At Home
- Sean
- Nov 28
- 3 min read
Hey, neighbor! It’s Sean from LOCAL Bug Guy!
Doing your own pest control is a good way of keeping your home free from pests and saving a few bucks. There are some good products on the market that will help you keep a safe, clean home for a reasonable price, too.
This post will show you how to do your own pest control depending on what pests you’re dealing with.
If you’d rather let a friendly, fast, reliable professional handle your pests for you at a reasonable price, contact LOCAL Bug Guy for a free quote. We’ve served the Salem, Utah, and Wildomar, California areas for years, and our customer satisfaction is through the roof.
General Pest Control
If you’re not in a place to purchase professional pest control, treating your home with a store bought pest control spray like Ortho Home Defense will do a good job. Make sure to follow the instructions on the bottle (usually spray every 8-12 weeks). We recommend using the entire bottle to get the most effective treatment.
How to Treat for Ants
Use your general pest control spray to create a barrier around your home. This should help keep ants out. But don’t do this if you already have ants in your house! That might trap them in!
Use ant traps or Terro ant bait. Traps will attract the ants into a sticky enclosure where they can’t escape. And with Terro bait, they’ll take the bait back to their colonies and pass it around, killing them from the inside.
Once the inside of your home is ant-free, you should be fine to spray the exterior of your home to create that protective barrier.
How to Treat for Spiders
Like with ants, use a store bought pest control spray to create that barrier around the foundation of your home. But there are other areas you need to treat for, too. Not just the foundation.
Spiders like black widows and brown widows like to make their webs in low, hidden places. When you spray your home, make sure to get under patio chairs and tables, grills, around garbage can handles, and outdoor toys that rarely get moved. These are places where spiders like to build their webs.
How to Treat for Wasps
Depending on the time of year, you’ll want to make different efforts for wasps.
If it’s spring, we recommend hanging some decoy wasp nests near your porch and back patio. During the spring, wasps are building their nests. But they’re territorial. So if they see that another group of wasps have started building, they’ll take their business elsewhere.
If it’s summer and wasps have already built nests around your home, it’s time to go to battle. Get a store bought wasp spray with a long range and stand at a safe distance as you spray wasp nests. We also recommend wearing long sleeves, long pants, gloves, and a mask to help protect yourself from possible stings.
How to Treat for Roaches
Your store bought pest control spray will create a good barrier to keep roaches out. But if you’re struggling with roaches inside your house, consider a roach motel. This is a store bought pest control product that works well for monitoring roaches, and they’re inexpensive.
How to Treat for Rats and Mice
Treating for rats and mice comes down to three things: traps, bait, and exclusion. Traps and bait can kill mice, but finding areas of your home where they’re sneaking in and sealing them off is also vital. That’s what we mean by “exclusion.”
With exclusion, use a strong material like wire, wood, or metal to cover the hole. Then seal the patch with caulk or metal sheeting to create a strong bond. That should hold, and the little critters shouldn’t be able to get in your home anymore!
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