Hello everyone, this is Quincy with Harpoon Pest Solutions. And this is the Harpoon Pest Solutions Pest Control podcast. Today, I just wanted to briefly talk about some things that a homeowner would do to pest proof their home. It’s very basic things too, but each season is necessary to pretty much go through your home and just inspect for some, some basic things just to look out for, especially if you are moving into a new home or if it’s your first year there. If you’re not too familiar with the with the home, you may want to have it you know, inspected or inspected yourself. So the day is going to be some things that you could actually do yourself, the first thing you want to do is check out the attic. And the ethical tell you a lot of things about that house, if there’s been an issue with mice, squirrels, raccoons, there could be things possibly already living in the attic, but you really won’t know until you actually you know, go into the attic with a powerful light. And just just take a look. It’ll tell you things about just the history of the house, or droppings there there could be even evidence that birds have gotten in stinging insects and other in other different kinds of insects. You could even see evidence of that those things would be all found in the attic. So the attic will tell you a lot of a lot of things about was making its way into your house. Right down from the attic underneath the attic is of course the bedroom. Now the bedroom is a place where not too many, you know common household pests will be found. But when you go through your bedroom and you’re changing your your sheets and your your bedding and stuff like that, you want to be on the lookout for bedbugs. anymore, bedbugs can pretty much be picked up anywhere, you know, um, you know, it used to be a time when you could kind of trace back to maybe had some home visitors that come over, maybe went on vacation somewhere, and then you brought something back, you know, maybe 10 years ago, 15 years ago was easy to kind of trace if you had an issue or how you got it, but now, not so much. It seems like you could be just about anywhere in any public place. And you know, transmission can happen, you can pick up a bedbug, you know, at any time, so really what you’re looking for when you change the sheets and pillowcases and stuff like that you’re looking for droppings, and cast skins and even actual bedbugs themselves. Now in an adult bedbug is probably going to be about the size of an apple seat. And you’ll know when you see it that it just doesn’t belong there and your bed, the droppings kind of look like Ink Spots or ink marks. The best way I can describe it is like someone just took like a Sharpie pen or like a ballpoint pen and just let the ink bleed out into the fabric sometimes you’ll see like, you know, sometimes it’ll have like a across pattern or something like that, you know, anything like that is definitely a flag should go up. And you may want to have your you know, your place inspected by a professional. Moving on down through the house to the outside of the house, you have the porch. Now a lot of people like to keep plants and you know little bit of nature out there on the porch, and that’s totally fine. But you want to make sure that you’re checking the pots thoroughly. And that the the potting soil isn’t just like full of like water sometimes in that, in that when you hit water in that potting soil. Things breed in that, you know, all kinds of sometimes nets other insects can breed in that potting soil. So you just want to be mindful that you know, take a look at the leaves, you know, remove any dead leaves, anything, anything like that that might be on a porch. Inside the house or around the house, or the walls, you have the foundation walls. And here you want to check the wood or any type of wood materials that may be part of the house becau...