Natural Pest Control Tips & Tricks

Fleas

How to Kill Fleas
Most people are frantic when they realize they have a flea problem. Fleas can quickly multiply and infest many areas of your home. They are small but can cause bites and itching for animals and humans alike...

A Natural Way to Get Rid of Fleas
If you want to kill fleas naturally, you need to attack the stages that are easiest to kill which are the egg and larvae stages...

How to Get Rid of Fleas on Furniture
If you have a flea infestation in your home there is a good chance that some of them are hiding out in the furniture. You can treat your furniture the same way that you would treat carpeting, pet bedding and other items especially if your furniture is fabric based...

How to Kill Fleas with Salt
There are many products on the market which will help you rid your house of fleas, but some of them are highly toxic. It is possible to get rid of fleas a more natural way...

How to Kill Fleas in 24 Hours
If you have ever had a flea infestation in your home, you probably know how hard it can be to get rid of them. In Florida, fleas are abundant and if you have a pet, it is likely that you have had to deal with fleas in one way or another...

How to Kill Fleas in Grass
Fleas thrive in the warm, moist environment of Florida. If you live here in Florida and have a dog or a cat, you have probably had to deal with fleas in one way or another...

How to Kill Fleas with Soap
Here in Florida, fleas are practically an epidemic, especially in the hot summer months. If you live in Florida and you have pets, it is likely that you have had to deal with fleas at one time or another...

How to Kill Fleas in Clothes
If you live in Florida and own a cat or a dog, you probably understand what a nuisance fleas can be...

How to Kill Fleas Without Bombs
Fleas are very tough pests to get rid of. Once an infestation has started in your home, fleas can begin to multiply at an alarming rate. If you have tried and failed to rid your home of fleas you may be getting frustrated and want to turn to a flea bomb to get rid of those pests once and for all...

How to Kill All Four Stages of Fleas
Fleas are a formidable opponent in Florida. In fact, here in Florida, flea problems practically reach epidemic proportions. If you want to get rid of a flea infestation in your home, you need to attack from a couple different directions. This will help to get rid of fleas in all four stages...

How to Kill Fleas in a Car
If your pet has fleas you may find yourself with more work to do than just having to give Fido a flea bath.  Fleas can quickly infest your home and multiply, spreading to your car with your canine companion...

How to Kill Fleas on Humans
Unfortunately, the fleas can spread to other things besides just your home. They can also spread to you. This is unlikely if your flea infested pet is nearby because fleas prefer a dog or cat as host but if the pet has been removed from the home or infested room, those fleas will take what they can get...

How to Get Rid of Fleas in Bedding
If you have the type of bedding that can be washed, bring it straight to the washing machine...

Flea Control for Dogs and Cats
If you have not been treating your environment for fleas and you have cats and dogs, it is likely that you are going to find yourself having to treat your pets.

Roaches

How to Get Rid of Roaches
There are dozens of different types of roaches worldwide and around the country but only some of them are the types that you are likely to have trouble with in your home.

How to Repel Roaches
If you live here in Florida, you know that there is the potential for having to deal with many different types of pests. Roaches are one of them.  Cockroaches are nasty little critters that can actually carry disease so you definitely don’t want them in your house.

How to Kill German Roaches
German roaches are quite possibly the nastiest roaches that you could have in your home. Their gestation period is relatively short and they seem to duplicate themselves at an alarming rate.

How to Keep Cockroaches Out of the House
Cockroaches will eat just about anything. If you have crumbs of food hiding somewhere they will find them so you need to do a thorough job cleaning. If there is nothing for the roaches to eat, they won’t come in.

Ticks

How to Get Rid of House Ticks
If you have ticks in your home they are probably the brown tick which is the type that you will usually find on your dog or cat. Once they enter your home on your dog or cat you have the possibility of an infestation...

Ants

How to Kill Ants
If you have an ant problem to tackle in your home or yard, the first thing you need to do is find out what kind of ants you are dealing with...

How to Kill Ants with Soap Water
If you are interested in natural ways to kill ants, using soapy water may work. However, it is not the only option for killing ants safe and naturally and it may not be the most effective...

How to Kill Ants Organically
People have shown interest in how to kill ants organically but organic is a very complicated term which has been overused and misused. In order for something to be considered organic, the compound needs to meet strict guidelines concerning its makeup...

How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants
Sugar ant is actually just a general term for a lot of different ants. Any ant that goes for sweets ends up in the broad category of sugar ant...

How to Get Rid of Wood Ants
Woods ants are simply part of a broad category of carpenter ants. Carpenter ants are often misunderstood...

How to Kill Ants in Flower Beds
If you find you have ants in your flower bed it should be pretty easy and straight forward to get rid of them. There are a few different ways you can go about this but some options are better and safer than others are...

How to Kill Ant Piles in Your Lawn
Are you having a problem with ant piles in your lawn? If you live here in Florida, it is likely that the nuisance ants are fire ants. These can be more than a nuisance...

How to Kill House Ants Fast and Easy
A common pest seen in homes in Florida is house ants. House ants come in to feed and you will often find a trail of them leading to some yummy morsel they have discovered in your kitchen...

How to Kill Large Red Ants
When it comes to ant problems, the first thing you need to do is identify the ants you are having a problem with. Large red ants are actually carpenter ants...

How to Kill Fire Ants With a Natural Remedy
Fire ants can be real pests here in Florida. In the best case, you may step on a mound and get bit by a few ants. This will sting for a bit. But many people are allergic to red ant bites and need to be extra careful...

How to Safely Kill Ants in the Kitchen
If you have a problem with ants in your kitchen, you will want to kill them using the safest methods possible. No one wants to use pesticides in areas where food preparation goes on or the family gathers together for a meal. You want to kill the ants without any risk of food contamination in your kitchen...

How to Kill or Deter Ants
If you have ants entering your home or garden you will want to find a way to stop them and keep them from coming back...

How to Kill Pharaoh Ants
Pharaoh ants are one of the most common pests you will find in your kitchen. Pharaoh ants will eat...

How to Kill Ants Without Chemicals | Chemical Free
See tips on how to get rid of ants without using chemicals...

How to Kill Carpenter Ants
Carpenter ants come in all different sizes, shapes and colors but they are all in the same category and can be dealt with in the same way...

How to Kill Black Carpenter Ants
The first step to killing these ants is to find out where they are living...

How to Kill Ants under Garden Soil
If you have ants in your garden soil you probably don’t want to use toxic pesticide to get rid of them. You may be growing vegetables and certainly don’t want toxic products spread all over the top of them.

Bed Bugs

How to Get Rid of a Bed Bug Infestation
Bed bugs have become nearly epidemic all over the world and Florida is no exception. There was a time when bed bugs were practically eradicated due to the development and use of stronger pesticides but they have come back with a vengeance...

How to Kill Bed Bugs with Natural Products
Sometime after the 1940’s, the incidence of bed bug infestations declined dramatically mostly due to the introduction of strong pesticides such as DTP...

How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs with Heat
Bed bug infestations have been steadily growing in number since the 1990’s. It is believed that these tough critters have become resistant to some of the pesticides typically used to kill them...

How to Kill Bed Bugs with Alcohol
Treatment for bed bug infestation is usually costly, time consuming and involves the use of chemicals. For people who would like to treat light infestations naturally and cost effectively there are options...

How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs in a Car
Bed bugs are nasty little critters that have evolved from a parasite that lived and fed on bats to one that now primarily feeds on humans.

Spiders

How to Get Rid of Rain Spiders
This is a bit of a perplexing question to answer. The reason for this is that rain spiders actually come from South Africa.

Bees, Wasps, Hornets and More

How to Keep Bugs, Wasps, Bees and Mosquitos Away From Your House and Yard
We deal with a lot of pests living here in Florida, but some are considered more than a nuisance and possibly dangerous. People are often allergic to the sting of bees, wasps and hornets. Mosquitos can carry disease...

How to Get Rid of Bees
When most people think of bees, they are thinking of anything that is yellow and black and has the ability to sting. Falling into this category are honey bees, Africanized bees, hornets and wasps.

How to Kill Japanese Hornets
Killing Japanese hornets is not for the faint of heart. These hornets are very big. Their bodies are 2 inches long and their wing span is 3 inches long.

Other Bugs

How to Kill Chinch Bugs
Chinch bugs can do a lot of damage to your lawn early in the season. They especially like the St. Augustine type of lawns but can do damage to any type of grass...

How to Get Rid of Water Bugs
Water bug is really just a fancy name for cockroach. Whether it is an American roach, German roach...

How to Kill Sand Hornets
Here in Florida, we are used to seeing pests of all kinds. Bees, hornets and wasps are common visitors to our yards and gardens. One of these stinging insects that are commonly seen here in Florida is called the sand hornet.

How to Get Rid of Chiggers
Also called red mites, chiggers are a parasitic mite in their first stage of life. This is the larvae stage. In this stage, the parasites will often attack cattle, livestock, pets and even humans.

How to Get Rid of Indoor Gnats
Gnats are part of the same family as fruit flies. Gnats are often called fruit flies or vinegar flies. Decaying fruit and other decaying matter is what attracts gnats. This is where they get their popular name.

How to Get Rid of Hobo Spiders
Hobo Spider is just one name for a common domestic spider, also called the aggressive house spider. In general, they fall in the category of funnel spiders.

How to Get Rid of Stink Bugs
If you have stink bugs in and around the house you may have already realized that they can be more than just a nuisance. Stink bugs can become a serious problem if left unchecked.

Where Stink Bugs Live
Stink bugs are those little shield shaped bugs, sometimes bright green in color, sometimes brown. They are known for the awful stench they give off when they are squished.