No one likes sharing their home with unwelcomed guests. It doesn’t matter if they are insects, rodents, arachnids, wildlife creatures, or estranged and abrasive relatives. To fight back against pest problems around your Las Vegas home and property, here are four easy yet effective prevention tips you need to know.
To effectively deter unwelcomed guests from settling down around your Las Vegas home, you have to first know a bit about the pests common to our area. Here are a few creatures known for invading area properties.
Rodents: Rodents are small furry mammals with strong teeth that never stop growing. These pests use these sharp teeth and their keen wits to get indoors. Some common problems rodents cause around homes include property damage, spreading sickness, and carrying smaller pests like fleas and ticks indoors.
Spiders: Not all spiders are dangerous, but they can all cause concern. When inside homes, these pests threaten homeowners with sometimes painful bites and build their webs in inconvenient locations.
Ants: Ants invade homes to find food and shelter. Certain species of ants, such as carpenter ants, cause property damage by tunneling through structural wood. Other species, like pharaoh ants, simply spread dangerous diseases. Even ants that don’t cause serious problems are still a huge nuisance and regularly contaminate food.
Cockroaches: Roaches are some of nature’s filthiest pests. Inside homes, these pests spread disease off their bodies, triggering asthma attacks and allergic reactions with their shed skin and dry fecal droppings.
One of the most important pest control tip is making sure your home’s exterior is properly sealed. This is done in a few different ways. To start, seal gaps and cracks in your home’s exterior foundation using a caulking gun. Follow this up by making sure all of your window/door screens, weatherstripping, and door sweeps are intact. Finally, our experts recommend hiring someone to make sure your home’s shingles, siding, roofline, chimneys, and window/door frames are in good condition and properly sealed.
Completely sealing off your home to pests is not possible. For this reason, it is wise to also remove things from your property that attract pests. To do this, here are a few tips our experts suggest you try.
If you would like to forgo all of the needed steps to prevent pests on your own, the professionals at Red Rock Pest Control are here to offer our services. We understand pests on a deep level and have the advanced pest control solutions needed to keep them out of your Las Vegas home.
From year-round general pest control plans to detailed elimination services, our team offers everything you could ever need to sustain a pest-free environment. Contact us now for any questions you have or to find a pest control plan that best fits your needs. We will make sure you are taken care of.
