Pest Challenges in Spring – Homeowners Tips

Spring is a wonderful time of year with winter breaking its hold and temperatures starting to creep up. Unfortunately, spring is also a great time for pests as many pests become more active and start searching for food and places to nest, including in your home. That’s why in today’s blog we will be looking at some helpful tips for homeowners to address the pest challenges that come with spring

Deny Pest Entry

One universal tip is to deny pests entry to your home by checking for and sealing up any vulnerabilities on the exterior of your home. This includes checking and repairing exterior walls, the foundation, roof shingles, ventilation openings, utility openings and any other places where pests might be able to gain access to your home. This will allow you to prevent an infestation before it even starts by ensuring that pests don’t have any way to enter your home.

Maintain home hygiene

The main reason that pests enter homes is to look for food and spring is one of the times when they will be most active with many pests coming out of a long hibernation period over winter. Things like open food containers, open garbage containers and an excess of crumbs and other food debris can attract pests to your home. You can remove these pest attractants by ensuring that your drawers are vacuumed for crumbs, by sealing your food containers and by making sure that your home waste is sealed and dealt with promptly.

Maintain yard cleanliness

Often before pests infest your home, they infest your yard, making homes in places like firewood piles, sheds, lawn debris piles and pools of standing water. You can prevent pests from nesting in these places by cleaning them up, checking them regularly and ensuring that they are away from your home. You should also make sure to trim back any overgrown vegetation around your home as it can provide pest access. You should also make sure your outdoor garbage bins are well sealed, so they don’t attract pests like mice, rats and other scavengers.

Call a professional pest control service

While there are many do it yourself methods for avoiding spring infestations one way to ensure that your home stays pest free is to contact a professional pest control service. Pest control professionals will have the tools and experience to target the root problems that cause pest infestation. They will also give you peace of mind knowing that your pest problems were addressed by an expert.

We hope that we have been able to provide you with some helpful tips for keeping your home pest free this spring. If you have any concerns or questions about pest control solutions, please feel free to contact us at Gilpin’s Pest Control.

Gilpin’s Pest Control is a family-owned business operating on the Lower Mainland in Greater Vancouver and the BC Interior including Kamloops, Revelstoke, and Sicamous. After 35 years in the business, we do a stellar job and are proud of our rapid response time. 

If you have any questions about this article or you would like to talk to us about pest control needs, please call us toll-free at (800) 770-2428.