Pest control is something most of us are interested in at some point.  The term encompasses anything you do that is an attempt to control, reduce or eradicate a pest problem on your property.  Often people turn to chemical pesticides and poisons in order to control pests but that isn’t always necessary.  Nontoxic methods of pest control can be just as effective without the worry of environmental harm or health risks.

To begin with any type of pest control program, you should know as much as you can about the pest you want to control.  Whether insects or rodents or another type of pest, each species will have it’s own breeding habits and things that repel them.  You should start by finding out what attracts the pest you are trying to control.  By simply eliminating anything that attracts pests you may find your pest control problem goes away on its own.  Another thing that you should be doing is sealing your home against intruders of all sizes.  Insects can get in with the smallest of cracks around a door, windowsill or basement.  Rodents don’t need much more space than that, believe it or not.  Inspect the perimeter of your home and block any cracks or holes that could be admitting unwanted guests.

My particular problem one winter had to do with mice living in my garage.  I stored bird seed and grass seed in my garage, but I never thought of covering up the bags and boxes of seed.  It turns out that a family of mice had burrowed through some concrete garage floor cracks and set up their little happy home inside my joists.  It took me a while to figure out where all the scattered seeds were coming from…I guess I thought it was just the wind blowing leftover stuff around.  So, after considering the best way to get rid of these critters, I ended up using plain general store mouse traps.  I figured I didn’t want to use poison, or toxic granules on them and thought a quick painless solution was to just trap them.  I baited the mouse traps with peanut butter and then set them up along the outside edge of the garage walls where the mice tended to leave their “traces”.   It took a few weeks, but eventually I got all of them and also figured out that I needed to store my grass seed an bird seed in plastic storage boxes.   It has worked out well ever since as I now have no food source available in my garage for any other type of pests that think about making it their new home.

Of course, my story is just one example of nontoxic methods of pest control.    For more information, go online to search specialty retailers for specialized traps, air pellet rifles, or whatever other type of non toxic solution you may be interested in trying.  Also, if you live in a modest size town, you may find that the local exterminator, home improvement stores and even gardening specialty shops  will offer you an abundance of options that you can purchase immediately.

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