Costa Rica Pest Control

If you want to get rid of rats or cockroaches think twice before fumigating.

Some components of insecticides can be harmful to your health. Even when you do not return to your home until the odor has gone, some components remain on furniture, curtains and doorknobs.

The integral management of pests can be controlled without so many chemicals says
entomologist Luis Fernando Jiron, owner of Interplagas.

The concept was developed from an industrial perspective, but can be applied to
homes. For example, rats are attracted to corn. so the best way to avoid
them is to keep the corn where they cannot get at it.

Cockroaches will be more abundant in your home if you leave dirty plates
or sweets uncovered. Leaving bread or other food out overnight creates conditions
for insects to multiply. Clean houses don’t offer these kinds of conditions.

The fungus that grows on sugar attracts cockroaches, which is why they can be
found on the residue of soft drinks. Cockroaches can also be attracted to pheromones
(hormones they smell) and led into a trap that eliminates them.

To begin getting rid of rats, paint the dark areas around washers and storage
places white. These pests don’t like light and white walls make them uncomfortable.
Making sure these areas have good ventilation and absolutely no trash is a key
point in fighting mice and rats.

Many live in drain pipes and Jiron recommends putting screening on the outlets
of those pipes so that water and small objects can go through but not a mouse.
If there is a real rat infestation, put traps on the roof and around the house.

Various methods to get rid of flies also exist. First clean any area where
they might propagate. Then hang flypaper where they die soon after they get stuck
to it. For flies and mosquitoes, screens on the windows and doors keep them out.

Tips in Construction:

Design: Avoid pests the minute you decide to build
Grillwork: Put on the end of gutters
Walls: Avoid those with two layers
Access: Tape over all possible entry points for mice or insects
White: Paint floor molding in a light color.
Spaces between floors: Not recommended in wood houses.

Our thanks to Pablo Fonseca and our friends at La Nacio¦n – Costa
Rica’s largest Spanish circulation newspaper for their permission to use
this article…

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