San Jose Termite Control

1. Before bringing cardboard, house plants, grocery market bags, paper bags, or soda pop items into your home ,inspect for bugs that may be hiding.

2. Store firewood away from the foundation of the home. Also keep it off the ground. Shake off the logs bringing them into the house.

3. Keep floors clean by eliminating food sources for those pesky night time feeders.

4. Inspect the home for possible entry points. screen or chalk areas to seal openings around your doors, pipes, windows, A/C lines.

5. Trim tree limbs so they don’t touch the house. Trim the shrubs so they don’t become a harborage for insects or rodents.

6. You can protect your porch and patio from ant invasions by placing powdered chalk or used coffee grounds around the foundation.

7. Always keep the lids on your garbage cans.

8. Inspect the outside of the house each month from July to frost. Yellow jackets will appear overnight. Get them before they eat through the dry wall.

9. Lime peels can help. Gnats and mosquitoes hate the smell of oranges, lemons, and limes, so try taking a bag of citrus peels along with you on your next hike. Rub the peels over your exposed skin to repel the bugs.

10. Make your own bug repellent using vanilla extract. Take a clean, empty spray bottle and fill it with 1 cup of water and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extra. Spray and wipe onto your skin and you won’t be bothered by some types of pests.