Pest Control is the management of pest by controlling their growth and preventing their invasions. Pest invasions can occur in many places like homes, gardens, crops etc. Generally, we can eliminate pests on crops by invading them with their natural enemies and insecticides. Pests can be kept at bay by cultural, chemical and biological ways. These processes are applied to homes. There are many integrated DIY pest management strategies. Let us discuss the most suitable 5 of them.
Keep the kitchen and bathroom clean
For a cockroach, the most favourite place in a home is the kitchen. The reason is the availability of ample quantity of food. Open food and dirt always attract cockroaches. So, we should always keep our foods covered and our kitchen clean.
This will reduce the chance of cockroach attack. Another untidy-prone area is the bathroom. Cockroaches can also enter our house through bathrooms and reach the kitchen. We should keep our bathroom clean and dry, use bleaching and disinfectant at regular intervals.
Dispose of the garbage daily
As said earlier, dirt acts as a magnet to cockroaches. The garbage that we produce daily is sometimes seen to be collected in dustbins and disposed of once in a week. So, the best measure of cockroach control is the disposal of garbage daily. To maintain a neat and clean kitchen, the daily disposal of garbage is the key.
If we keep collecting our garbage daily and intend to dispose of the accumulation of week-long garbage in holidays, then it will be a grave mistake. It is because such practices lead to cockroach infestation inside the house. The situation may also get worse if we find rotten foods all over the house.
Maintain the tidiness of basement and storerooms
In our house, another important place that we often overlook is the basement or storeroom. If basements are not taken care of, then they can serve as the best hiding spot for cockroaches. So, we should clean our garage, basements and storerooms regularly.
Storerooms and basements are places where we keep our unnecessary items with a hope that they may come to use in future. But this habit leads to the transformation of basements into a heap of unnecessary things. So, we should regularly dispose of our out of order items.
Detect problem areas and apply repellents
The best DIY cockroach control measure is the identification of infested areas and applying cockroach repellents there. We have to first find all the invaded places of cockroaches in our homes. Then we can give chemicals that will eliminate their whole colony.
We can use diatomaceous earth, Catnip, Boric acid mixed with flour, sugar and coffee to kill them. We can also use adhesive tapes to trap them. But this will not destroy the entire colony. So, we can use the above-mentioned items as a home remedy to control cockroaches.
Set traps for cockroaches using bait
In our home, we can solve our problems by building traps for cockroaches. Coffee cockroach trap is a kind of trap where cockroaches can die by drowning. Being a natural cockroach k
iller, coffee mixed with water can eliminate them.
Another kind of trap is the beer trap. The beer attracts cockroaches, but they cannot live in it. If we pour some beer in a bottle and keep it near cockroaches, they will come in it and drown. Many cockroach pest control Kolkata services also recommend these DIY remedies.
Conclusion
The above-said tips are all 'Do it yourself' measures, that is, home remedies that normal people can apply for mild invasions. But if the infestation is huge and serious, then we can contact for services of cockroach treatment in Kolkata.