5 Tips to Keep your Outdoor Party Bug-Free

Spring and summer’s beautiful warm weather calls for BBQs, pool parties and a slew of other outdoor celebrations. While you are definitely inviting friends, family and neighbors, bees, mosquitos, ants, flies and other nasty bugs are NOT on your guest list. However, you may find them slipping through security and buzzing around your party bothering your guests if you don’t prepare your backyard properly. Richmond Pest Control, a professional pest extermination company in Staten Island, has come up with the 5 easiest tips to keep your next outdoor party bug-free.

Easy Tricks to Throw a Bug-Free Outdoor Party

Tip 1: Cover your Food & Cups. Bugs are attracted to the sweet, delicious scents of food and drinks. Use cups with lids and straws, or cover them with cupcake liners when you’re not sipping. Similarly, keep all food indoors and discard leftovers immediately. This is the easiest way eliminate pesky flies and mosquitos.

Tip 2: Build a bug-free bonfire. Throw a bundle of sage into your bonfire as a clever way to smoke out and repel mosquitos and other flying insects.

Tip 3: Drain Standing Water. Standing water is a breeding ground for mosquitos. Before hosting an outdoor event, go around your yard and find places water gathers such as buckets, kiddie pools, bird baths and gutters. While these should be emptied regularly, it is especially important before hosting guests outdoors.

Tip 4: Cut your Grass. Many flying insects, like mosquitos and bees, are drawn to high grass and weeds. They use the tall, thick grass to hide ground nests and for a quiet place to mate. Keep your grass short to help keeps bugs away.

Tip 5: Traditional bug spray. A classic remedy to an age-old problem. Make sure whichever brand you choose, it contains DEET, which is the gold-standard for all repellents. DEET is a safe and effective insect repellent developed by the U.S. Army and used since 1946.

Tip 6: Natural Mosquito Repellents. Not all repellents have to contain harsh chemicals. There are several plants that provide a natural repellent, as well as many DIY tricks.

Read More: All Natural Backyard Mosquito Repellents.

Insect Pest Control Specialists

These simple tips and tricks will work wonders to ward off the occasional fly, mosquito and bee during your casual backyard BBQ. However, if you have feel like you have a more severe pest problem call our Staten Island insect pest control company today. We’ll come to your home for an evaluation and offer several effective methods to terminate and remove an insect infestation. For year-round prevention against bugs & rodents, see our winter pest control tips.