Pests are a common and frequent nuisance in Australian households. Rodents, spiders, cockroaches, to name just a few disturb our lives daily in ways unimaginable. According to a report by CSIRO, in the last 60 years, invasive pests and subsequent damages caused by them incurred the Australian economy losses worth $390 billion. If proper management methods are not adapted and deployed, the rate will only increase.

Pest invasions are often unpredictable. Your house may look perfect on the outside, but on the inside, you might have been hosting rats, mice and cockroaches without even noticing. Pests are good at hiding, which gives them an advantage of living inside our house unnoticed. Pests are also good at multiplying, so by the time you notice and get rid of one cockroach in the kitchen, the total number might have already reached 10 somewhere in a corner in your home.

Pests are not pets so humans can’t live in harmony with them. There’s a reason why they’re called vermin, but we’ll come to that later. Let’s understand why your household has a pest infestation to begin with. Put simply, pests invade your house for easy sources of food, shelter and water. Holes and gaps in your walls or yard, a cluttered garage, and added moisture in your home from leaks make your home suitable for pests to nest in. They may slip inside that crack in the kitchen someday, and you won’t even notice. 

Once shelter is off the list, time to find some food. In residential households, food is plenty to come by. When you leave food out in the open, uncovered, unprotected, you’re offering delicious morsels to pests free of charge. Pests are also experts in scavenging waste from the rubbish. 

Finally, pests need to stay hydrated as well, but unlike many other animals, pests have the capability to stay well for days with very limited water. Leaks from pipes, bird baths in gardens, puddles in your yard may just be the perfect water source for pests. When the final item in the list is checked off, pests live happily ever after inside your home. Eventually, homeowners do come to realise that their house indeed is infested, the burden of these revelations is felt more on their bank balance than anything else.

The presence of pests means nothing but diseases and destruction. The impact of pests on humans and household commodities are profound. Pests can inflict stings, bites, and many severe and life threatening diseases like: 

• Zika virus 
• Lyme disease 
• Rabies 
• Asthma 
• Allergies 
• Typhoid 
• Dysentery 
• Diarrhea 
• Cholera 

In households with children and pets, the presence of pests also triggers a great deal of panic. Pests can leave around their mess in the house in forms of faeces, urine and even corpses. Moreover, pests like to explore, and in the process, ravage your home. They have the capability to destroy wooden furniture, fabric, books, stored food and even electric wiring. The bills start adding up slowly, dollar by dollar. One day, the damages become so irreversible that you get hit by a sudden surge of expenses.

If you want to save on  pests bills, investing in residential pest control when you observe the early signs of pest infestation is a wise choice. Now, household pest control  can be done in a number of ways. For starters, you can practice some preventive measures like trimming bushes and hedges, keeping your yard clean, decluttering storage spaces, always covering your rubbish and using a fresh rubbish bag everyday, not keeping leftover food outside etc. But here’s the catch, people focus on pest control for pest control for house after the infestation has gone to a level where preventive measures are not enough to eradicate the population of pests nesting in your house.

Homeowners, when they realise there’s a pest nest in their house, typically start using household pest control products like aerosols, poisons, baits etc. Yes, these house pest control products do eventually kill some pests, but there’s no guarantee that poisoning or unleashing toxic gasses on pests will remove them from your household forever. You might be satisfied seeing one dead rodent or cockroach but there may be at least 50 of them alive in your roof or some hidden corner in the kitchen. Moreover, these chemical pest control products are highly toxic to humans, pets and nature. So you’re passively putting your family and the environment in danger when you keep using and reusing these chemicals.

Yes, you can. But mind you, pest inspections can be very expensive, not to mention, highly messy as well. An exterminator will deploy the same sets of chemicals and poisons that you did yourself, only at a larger scale. At the end of the inspection, you will see reduced pest activity, but the mess and cleaning that follows is beyond measure.

When it comes to vermin pest control, prevention is better than cure. Vermin repellents, like those in the form of baits and chemicals won’t need to come into play if you have a system that keeps pests off your ground entirely. This is where the benefits of using Envirobug’s electronic vermin repellents come in. Tested and approved by many homeowners in Australia, Envirobug’s using electronic vermin repellents is the safest way to keep pests at bay, without using harmful chemicals and spending thousands of dollars on pest inspections. Our sonic vermin repellers  take care of pests without violence, removing the hassle of cleaning and removing dead vermin afterwards. 

Ultrasonic vermin repellers  like those of Envirobug’s use ultrasonic waves of various frequencies that only small pests can hear. These sounds do not harm humans and pets, so they remain unaware of the annoyance these sounds can cause to pests. Pests stay away from the sound source, and by extension, do not come near your home. Electronic vermin repellers are super simple and easy to set up and use. They come with a USB plug, which you can connect to any socket. Power it up and you’re all set! These vermin repellers work quietly, and run on low power so you can practically keep them running 24x7. The best part? Because electronic vermin repellers prevent pests from entering your property, you don’t have to deal with dead pests in your home. No violence, no killing, simple, cheap and safe pest management.