One fact of life that no one likes to think about is living with bugs in your apartment. Often times, having bugs has nothing to do with how clean you keep your apartment or how diligent you are with a can of Raid. It can simply be something as basic as the weather or the person living next to you. Almost all apartments get sprayed for various different kinds of bugs. If your landlord doesn’t spray, find out why and schedule one yourself if you have to. Let’s take a look at some of the most common bugs and how to get rid of them.
While cockroaches are clearly the best known pest, ants are probably the most common. If you live in a place like Florida, you can keep your apartment looking like Martha Stewart lives there and it won’t matter, you will get ants off and on throughout the year. The best thing you can do is to spray when you see them and if they continue for more than a day or two, call your landlord and see what can be done. The experts at many of the top exterminators will offer free advice over the phone, too.
Roaches are not only the ugliest pest you can have, they are by far the creepiest. Again, roaches are seldom a sign that you keep an unclean house, especially if you live in the south where they seem to be everywhere. Keep crumbs and food in air tight storage containers and try to look for where they are coming in and out of your home to end their nightly reign.
One pest that is on the comeback trail is bed bugs. Once practically extinct, the bed bug population exploded after the Sydney Olympics and is now prominent in many North American cities. If you find bed bugs, call an exterminator immediately and be prepared to throw away your mattress and many of your other belongings.
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