Bugs Infestation

Bugs infestations are common enough. You can have the cleanest house on the block, but you can still have a bugs infestation It depends where you live which sort of bugs infestations you are likely to get, but there are worldwide common denominators.

Bugs Infestation

Ants, termites, cockroaches, fleas and bed bugs are people's most common problem. However, it is impossible to kill all bugs infestations with the pesticides that are on the market today.

The most most common pest infestations in the world are ants. Ants will invade and infest a house or garden at a moments notice, so you have to be constantly vigilant and pro-active at keeping their numbers down. Luckily, unlike with some other insects, the management of ants is as easily said as done.

Ants are communal insects and the ones that you see in your home or garden are workers or foragers. They are out looking for food to take home for their fellows back in the nest.

Therefore, if you give them food they will readily take it home and if you poison that food, well, they will take that home too. This makes the treatment of ants quite easy.

There are plenty of ant poisons on the market. These foods are usually harmless to humans and their pets, but slow-acting poisons to insects and especially ants. Ants will pick the poison up, take it back to the nest and feed it to their fellow ants - young, soldiers and queen alike.

It usually takes a few days for this form of pest control to kill off most of the nest, which may be 10-20 yards away, and it may take a month to destroy the whole bugs infestation, but it will work.

What does not work is killing a few hundred with boiling water or fire, because the queen will just create more ants to replenish the nest.

Termites are scary to home-owners, especially Formosan termites, because of the damage they can do to property, but they can be eradicated in much the same way as ants although the poison is different because most ants eat different food to termites.

In fact, termites and ants are not at all related. Termites are more closely related to cockroaches.

Cockroaches are probably the second most hated insects. However, an infestation of cockroaches is usually self-inflicted, because they feed on left-over food. If you have cockroaches, wash your dishes before going to bed and store your food in containers or in the fridge.

Luckily, cockroaches can be killed quite easily. Soak some bread or rice in borax and water and put pieces of it where the cockroaches run. They will eat this, but they cannot digest it, so they will die bloated, but starving. You can also put down corn starch. When this enters their stomachs it will swell up and kill them.

If you have an infestation of fleas, wash the dog with flea shampoo in the garden and dust it with flea powder. Then, put flea powder in the dust bag and vacuum the floor, the furniture and the curtains.

Boil wash the dog;s bedding and spray the whole house with permethrin, then go and sit with your dog in the garden for a few hours unil the smell dies down. This goes for any pet, although bathing a cat is not easy - try putting the cat in a pillow case.

A bed bug infestation is a nightmare. People hate the thought of them sucking their blood at night while they sleep, although it is not thought that they are a threat to your health or transmit disease. However, not all health authorities agree that bed bug bites are harmless.

Bed bugs infestations will not only be in your mattress, as a lot of people imagine, they are probably living behind the skirting boards, where they are probably laying their eggs. The most likely places to pick up bed bugs are hotels, buses, trains, taxis and cinemas.

Bed bug infestations are very, very difficult to get rid of, so you should do all you can to ensure that you do not get them. You will need more specialist pest management techniques to get rid of bed bugs infestations, so look for the page on this site or in the Links section.

Insect Exterminator

If you have an in infestation of bugs, you can probably deal with them yourself, but for some, like bed bugs, you may need an insect exterminator. You can usually get a recommended insect exterminator through your local health authority. You might also call an insect exterminator for a hornet nest in the attic or Formosan termites in the foundations.

Home Ant Infestation

It is quite easy to eradicate a home ant infestation, if you go about it properly. The best way, the only way, really, to destroy a home ant infestation is by poisoning. You lay poisoned bait where the ants run and the ants will do the rest for you. The workers will take the poison home and feed it to their comrades. The home ant infestation should be over within a week to a month.

Bed Bug Covers For Mattresses

You can get temporary relief from bed bugs by using bed bug covers for mattresses. You can use bed bug covers for mattresses in your home while you are clearing your house of these pests or you could take bed bug covers for mattresses to hotels with you if you are travelling or on holiday. Bed bug covers for mattresses are specially woven to prevent bed bugs getting through.

How To Get Rid Of Pest Insects

If you want to learn how to get rid of pest insects, you will find plenty of information on this website. If you need more details, try the 'Links' hyperlink on the left. Most insects are quite eay to deal with but you will need more specialist information on how to get rid of pest insects like bed bugs and termites.