The last thing you want to see in your home is a roach scurry across your kitchen floor. If you see one roach, you probably have a lot more hiding somewhere. Roaches aren't the only annoying pests you want to keep out of your home. Ants, spiders, silverfish, moths, and beetles can be annoying or destructive, so you want them gone too.

You can work with a pest control company and have regular visits to keep pests at bay, or you may just want a single treatment to eliminate a pest problem. A pest control company will create a customized plan based on the pests you have. Here's what you might expect from residential pest control treatment services.

Remove Wasp Nests and Spider Webs

A residential pest control treatment may involve exterior treatments. The exterminator may remove spider webs and wasp nests that are on the exterior of your house. Working on the exterior of your home gives the exterminator a chance to look for problem areas such as gaps around window frames and holes in screens that let in bugs. The exterminator may fill these gaps or tell you how to do it so spiders and other bugs that crawl along an exterior wall can't get in your house.

Treat With Insecticide

A residential pest control treatment often involves using insecticides in some form. The pest control professional may use liquid insecticide to create a barrier around your home that kills bugs when they get too close to your house. Insecticides may be used indoors as well as outdoors. Using them indoors may be necessary when you have a pest infestation, but the exterminator may just use outdoor pesticides on maintenance visits.

Besides liquid insecticide, the pest control company might use bait on certain insects such as ants and termites. Baits work well on these insects since they pick up the bait and take it back to the colony to wipe out several other ants or termites.

Set Up Monitoring Stations

If you schedule follow-up treatments, the pest control company may put out monitoring stations that trap insects. This lets the exterminator know what kind of insects are in your home or yard and how bad the infestation is. This helps the company zero in on the type of insecticide and other treatments to use to eliminate your pest problem if you have one.

A single residential pest control treatment may not be enough to eliminate a bad infestation of roaches or other bothersome bugs. Multiple treatments could be needed, and when the bugs are finally gone, consider having scheduled maintenance treatments done so the bugs stay away.