- Clean your swimming pool regularly. Why wouldn’t water bugs not come to your house when there are abundant freshwater in one place? The best way to get rid of water bugs from your swimming pools is by cleaning them regularly. If it won’t work, then add few tablespoon of liquid dish soap into the pool. The chemical composition of the soap will kill water bugs, so you can scoop their floating dead body out of the pool.
- Water bugs like cockroaches are attracted to foods. Develop a habit to always clean up the spills or crumbles as soon as they happen. Use water and soap to clean the smell and any traces of foods thoroughly.
- Because cleanliness is the utmost importance to get rid of water bugs and any pests, clean your house at least once a week, and clean more for kitchen at least twice a week.
- Don’t leave dirty dishes in the sink, and organic garbage in the kitchen overnight. They will attract water bugs, cockroaches, mice, or other pests coming into your house. If you are too tired to clean dirty dishes, fill the sink with soaps and water, and clean the dishes immediately in the morning.
- Check if there are cracks on windows, doors, and roofs because they can be an entry gate for water bugs coming into the house.
- Throw away or burn the stacks of leaves and woods in the yard. Water bugs like to hide behind leaves and woods because they moist and dark, the perfect places for water bugs to live and breed.
