Preparing Your Home To Avoid Winter Pest Residents

Winter Pest Control — Chicago, IL — Guardian Pest Control

As fall approaches and night temperatures turn cold, we are not the only ones who want to stay where it is heated. Pests who were once satisfied living outdoors, are now on the way into our homes. Searching cracks and crevices, they enter our homes and plan on overwintering with us until the spring. When the average home temperature is around 70 degrees, it makes an easy choice for a pest to either struggle outside and possibly die or continue its lifestyle inside your walls.

 

We are not going to stop heating our homes, so how do we keep these pests out? Sealing cracks and crevices does work, but can you find every crack that a pest can? And, what about overhead, even the soffits can be entries, especially from wasps. The only real way to stop invaders is to have a fall treatment around the perimeter of the home before they get in.

 

Once a perimeter treatment is applied, any pest trying to cross the treatment will be destroyed before they set up a nest inside your walls or worse, in your kitchen. Ants are very common invaders in the fall, sometimes moving their entire nest inside walls not only for the better temperatures, but also being close to a food source. Once inside, these pests do not vacate in the spring, now established they stay and continue to breed and grow their populations.

 

Insects are not the only invaders this time of year. Animals also will choose a sheltered attic rather that a cold hollow tree. Raccoons are famous for going down chimneys that are not capped, and even will give birth right on the flue door. Squirrels chew their way into attics, and even cold-blooded snakes move to where the heat is.

 

Prevention is the best solution to keep pests out this time of year. Just because you do not see ants walking across the deck or sidewalk doesn’t mean you are safe from these sneaky pests. Call Guardian Pest Control today at 877-924-7878(PEST) and ask how you can keep these invaders out this fall and winter.