Molly Maid's Tips to Keep Your Home Pest Free This Summer

Residential Cleaning Experts Provide Bug-Prevention Tips

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Aug 01, 2013, 01:45 ET

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Summer brings the return of bugs and other pests to your home. The first line of defense against an invasion is keeping your home clean and eliminating attractants that may bring the unwanted guests indoors.

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Infographic: Make Your Home a No Bug Zone by Molly Maid. (PRNewsFoto/Molly Maid) (PRNewsFoto/MOLLY MAID)

Molly Maid, the nation's leading residential cleaning company, has released a list of the top cleaning tips to avoid the pest invasion that comes with summer months:

Clean dishes immediately to avoid flies. Don't wait until the end of the day to wash your dishes, especially if they have sticky residues. Before scrapping leftovers into the garbage, drain moisture and place scraps in a tightly tied bag in a trash can with a fitted lid.

Practice insect control with non-toxic, organic sprays and insecticides. Home remedies or commercial products are effective for homeowners, which work on ants, roaches, fleas, etc. Read Molly Maid's blog post for more on tips to prevent ants.

Prevent roaches by regularly cleaning around the fridge, stove, and dishwasher to remove food crumbs. Keep the areas free of liquid by cleaning kitchen counters after every meal, mopping the floor and wiping down baseboards.

Cut back bushes and tree branches around your house. Remove any piles of leaves or other debris that has accumulated as they are perfect nesting spots for bugs and other pests.

Seal small cracks in windows, doors or floorboards where bugs could get in with caulk.

Place food in clean fruit bowls and use a lid to create a barrier between fruit flies and your items. For more read Molly Maid's post on getting rid of fruit flies.

Download a related infographic at MollyMaid.com/no-bug-zone. For all your house cleaning needs, contact your local Molly Maid.

About Molly Maid
Molly Maid, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is one of three service companies under Service Brands International. The residential cleaning franchise cleaned more than 1.6 million homes last year alone. Molly Maid was founded in 1979 and began franchising in 1984. Currently, more than 450 Molly Maid units are operating in the United States alone, with an additional 200 operating throughout Puerto Rico, Canada, Japan, England and Portugal. Molly Maid has consistently ranked high in Entrepreneur magazine's Franchise 500 rankings and has been the recipient of numerous awards for entrepreneurialism, software innovation and humanitarian causes.