Spring is coming! (Also Earwigs)
Don’t panic because despite what you might have heard, earwigs do not enter people’s ears while they sleep. The myth that these insects go into people’s ears and burrow into the brain to cause insanity is completely untrue but interestingly enough is how the insect got its name. The Earwig The Earwig (Latin name Order Dermaptera, meaning “skin winged”) is a blackish brown flat and thin insect ranging from ¼ to 1 inch in length. Earwigs have pinchers on their abdomens (which is why they are also known to some as pincher bugs) and the adults have 2 sets of wings on their thorax but even with those . . ...
Bee Prevention and Removal
With Preferred Pest Control, preventing bees is unbeelieveably easy 😉 California Bees: Here is California, we have a very diverse bee population. Believe it or not, there are over one thousand different species of native bees and most of them are solitary bees, meaning they don’t live in hives. These solitary bees make their homes in small holes in the ground that they dig themselves or other holes made by rodents. Bees can be great for your garden as they are excellent pollinators which will proliferate your planted fruits and vegetables. If you want to attract native bees in to your garden, plant a variety of flowers of different shapes ...