Halloween Candy Safety and Pests

With Halloween an immediate concern and the holidays in general looming nearby, many of us have sweets and treats on our minds. A pleasant bowl of "fun size" chocolate bars on a coffee table, some candy corn placed in the guest room, and perhaps a plate of pumpkin-shaped cookies in the kitchen can all play a pleasant part in holiday celebrations. These treats might also attract a few pesky critters. Rodents and bugs love sweets, and it's hard to blame them.

If you want to have your candy out and eat it too, you have to be vigilant in keeping pests out of your home. Obviously you should always be vigilant in this capacity, but with all of these tempting treats around, you might have to keep a closer eye out. Leave a sticky mouse trap around just in case. By merely touching your snacks, a mouse or bug can spread an unseemly amount of ailments and diseases to you, your family, or house guests. 

Whenever a fly lands on a surface, it excretes waste. This means that if a fly lands on that bowl of candy corn, the bowl has now been exposed to fly feces. Keeping fly-killing disposable fly traps is indispensable. Similarly, as a mouse makes its way around your home, it excretes feces without regard for your family's food. More worrisome still is that a mouse chewing through that Snickers wrapper is sure to leave remnants of saliva on the candy. If you aren't careful, you might find yourself biting into the same section of a candy bar that a mouse did, and that is quite simply disgusting.

Here are some ideas to safely present family and friends with snacks without inviting a menagerie of wildlife to snack as well. Keep snacks covered as best as possible. Dishes with glass lids are great for keeping pests out. Only purchase individually wrapped treats. While a mouse might tear through some wrappers, it might not even know food is there if the food remains packaged. 

Buying sticky mouse traps and disposable fly traps is always a good idea. No one wants their Halloween ruined by spooky exterminators coming in to fumigate your home. Keep food and your family safe with help from these excellent tools.