Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen
Spring is here and it’s time to chase down those dust bunnies, clean those murky windows and clean up (take inventory and purge) the kitchen. When you finally start in on the kitchen – it’s time to turn your messy Betty Crocker play station into a surgical operating room. Our modern kitchens can be, for the most part, vulnerable to pest infestations and potential health risks. So having convinced you to put on the gloves and fill the bucket with hot sudsy cleaners, here is a list of kitchen pests that you are likely to encounter?
1) Flies – Ok well we have a few, but mainly: house flies, bluebottle, cluster and fruit flies. Apart from the infuriating noise, wherever a fly lands there is always the chance that they might spread pathogens, bacteria and germs. Solution: your goal is a hygienic and clean kitchen at all times. In your quest to rid yourself of these flying germ bombers, make sure you have secure door and window screens and reduce attracts like food and liquids.
2) Ants – We basically have 5 species of ants that can assault our kitchens: Pharaoh’s ants, pavement, thatching, odorous and the notorious carpenter ant (termites with attitude). Again, remove the source of the problem and prevent it re-occurring. Find the nest and destroy it – then find the access points into the kitchen and seal up all the cracks and crevices. Try all the retail ant products first, watch them disappear for a while, throw up your hands in desperation and call us, go green pest control.ca
3) Moths, Beetles and Mice a.k.a SPP (Stored Product Pests) – Stored product pests are very interested in food stored in pantries and cupboards. It usually starts with an open door or windows were any one of these scavengers’ gets in, or of course hitch hiking a ride in on just about anything. These pests are not only unpleasant and shocking to encounter, they can pose multiple health risks. Eliminating these pests can be very costly, so again, your goal is to keep a hygienic and clean kitchen at all times.
4) Cockroaches – although we are not particularly plagued with these nuclear radiation resistant creatures, they do exist here on the south coast (wet coast, best coast). Although a spic-and-span kitchen isn’t bullet proof to a blitzkrieg from cockroaches, the term: cleaner is better does apply here.
gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky
