Bringing Home Hitchhiking Pests

Bringing Home Hitchhiking Pests

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They don’t have thumbs, but they’re expert hitchhikers waiting for an easy ride to your home. Pests are marvels of evolution with a talent for finding efficient modes of transportation. Even the cleanest house on the block is an easy destination for invading bugs that sneak through the front door. 

Spiders Hiding In the Groceries

When you bring groceries home from the market, you’re carrying uninvited guests into the house. Cockroaches treat paper bags, boxes, and soda cartons like transit systems from the store to your kitchen. Once you’ve put things away, they spread through cabinets and pantries. Spiders ride this express lane too, and they’re very good at hiding in your fresh produce.

Bedbugs Traveling With Your Clothes

The hotel industry wages an ongoing war with bed bugs, but these pests migrate from one property to another in countless suitcases. They’re almost invisible, so you won’t see the ones that slip into your bags or attach to your socks. These tiny insects can remain dormant for months after you’ve brought them home, but they eventually turn your bedroom into their dining room.

Riding Furniture, Boxes and Pets

That garage sale dresser seems like a bargain, but moving older furniture into the house opens your doors to brown recluse spiders and carpenter ants. Retrieving boxes from storage gives invading pests another easy avenue to your home. Your dog is clean and healthy, but your neighbors’ four-legged friends can infest the yard with fleas and ticks that catch a ride on you and your pet.

Hitchhiking bugs are always headed for your door, so regular pest inspections and treatments are your best insurance for pulling up the welcome mat. Rely on your professional exterminator to make sure unwanted guests don’t move in.

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