Make sure that attics and crawl spaces are well ventilated. Integrated Pest Management is defined as a system of integrating preventative and corrective measures of shielding pests and doing so at the lowest cost with minimal risk to customers and their environment. Limitations of this reproductive and survival ability are called control factors. Managing pests effectively is the ability to manipulate their reproductive and survival potential. Not only is pesticides part of this control, but sanitation as well.
Humans can be part of the sanitation control factor by removing food, water, and shelter.
Sanitary measures of controlling pest populations go along with safe, legal pesticide usage provided by a licensed professional. The ultimate goal to achieve IPM is to establish a program that is legally, environmentally, socially, and economically acceptable to the customer.