Pests may be required by Mother Nature for maintaining an ecological balance, but these are certainly not required by people at home. Hence avoid taking drastic steps to kill them; rather find a few natural ways to keep them away from your house or property. You can check certain online companies such as Pointe Pest which can assist you to figure out few natural ways of pest prevention.
Following are few points that can help you in keeping the pests away from your place naturally:
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Use Home-Made Solutions
There are certain home-made solutions that include ginger, cinnamon powder, garlic, turmeric powder and camphor balls that can certainly help in keeping roaches, spiders, bugs, ants and other insects away. You can either make a paste-like mixture or use these in powdered form to stick or sprinkle in the hotspot areas of pests.
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Use Certain Oil Mixtures
Lighting a mustard oil lamp with a mixture of camphor powder outside your house will prevent flies and mosquitoes from entering your place. Mix mustard oil with turmeric powder and make a paste out of it. Use this paste as a sealant on crevices and holes on your countertops to avoid ants and other insects. Use lemon-eucalyptus oil or neem (Azadirachta indica) oil as an insect repellant. Peppermint oil is hated by roaches and mosquitoes.
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Use Vinegar in Floor Cleaners
Vinegar is already very famous for its cleaning characteristic. If you mix 2 spoons of vinegar in half bucket of water with floor cleaner, you will be surprised to see no roaches and flies on your floor. You can spray vinegar mixed with water on your plants to protect them from other insects and pests. Vinegar is an enemy to moths, slugs, bugs and ants.
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Change Your Habits
A slight change in your lazy habits is the best natural way to get rid of pests. Throwing the garbage in trash cans and keeping these cans locked with tight lids, and discouraging food litters can help in keeping most of the pests away from home. Arranging your stuff daily and de-cluttering your house every month will help you to discourage pest dwellings. Also vacuum your house every week.
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Grow Pest-Resistant Plants
If you have a garden or balcony and you love plants, try to buy ones that act as insect or pest repellant. Neem or Azadirachta indica plant, peppermint plant, basil, lavender and rosemary are few effective ones in dealing with pests. These plants do not allow any insect to feed on them. They are also used as herbal medicines to treat any insect bite.
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Seal All The Cracks and Holes
Do not laze around or procrastinate work if you see crevices or holes on the roof, in the walls or on the ground. These are the places from where pests enter or dwell. Quickly seal all of them the moment these are noticed. Any delay can lead to pest infestation within no time. You will then need to rely on chemicals to get rid of them.
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Use Traps and Release Pests
You may not be a person who believes in killing pests. However, certain stubborn pests do not run away despite using many tricks. They need permutation and combination of certain methods to distract them, trap them in a cage and then release them out at a far distance. There are certain traps for rodents, squirrels and raccoons that can help you keep these pests away from your house.
Talk to professionals from pest control companies such as Pointe Pest to follow non-aggressive methods of shunning pests away.
