Bugs invade for three main reasons: FOOD, WATER, and NEST.
1. Food is simple; what are you offering them? Take away the food source and sometimes it works well, but they will look for something else to replace what you have taken from them. Here’s a good example I had just the other day: A lady had ants in her dirty-clothes basket. Now what can they possibly be in there for? The answer is salt! Dirty clothes contain salt from perspiration, and that can draw them to your laundry area.
2. Water is another simple one. Just think about water from a insect’s perspective. The pipes in your walls create condensation, and that is plenty of water for a tiny bug. And they really like it even more under the bath tub or kitchen sink, where you use hot water, because that makes the pipes sweat even more.
3. Nest is the hardest to deal with. When insects do nest under the tub and there is no trap door for access, it is difficult to treat; and most times it requires installing a bath-trap door. If they nest under the shower pan, it can be even harder. When we get days of rain and the insects get flooded out of their home, your house has ample dry places for them to move into.
This is why it is important to treat more than just next to the exterior of the house. I have seen ants that had a nice little nest way off in the back of the yard, climb up the power pole, travel along the wire coming from the pole, and right into the house when their nest got flooded. They found it much drier and warmer under the clothes washer than in the back yard. And what else did they find? Water from the washer pipes and hoses.
So be on guard and look around your entire yard, or just call the BUG MAN and let us take care of it for you!
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