Avoiding Insect Bites and Stings This SoCal Summer
Summer is the season of beautiful blue skies, great weather, and an abundance of outdoor activities with family and friends. There are pool parties, barbecues, and vacations which allow everyone to escape their regular routines. But, alas, summer is also the season of stings and insect bites. Bugs and bees are mating, swarming, gathering pollen, and more. To make sure you get to have fun experiencing all the joys of summer, here are the ways you can avoid the bee stings and bug bites that often hamper the enjoyment! Be Attentive on Where They Live Sometimes these creatures build their home out in open where they are easily seen, but ...
Bees, Wasps, and Hornets, Oh My – Know the Differences and When to Act
A Bee? A Wasp? or a Hornet? While nearly everyone can identify the honey bee, because the species is so frequently in the news, most people don’t know the difference between stinging insects – bees, wasps, hornets, and other stinging insects. Since spring is here and summer is fast approaching, the stinging insects of Southern California will be out in force invading picnics, barbecues, sporting events, and the fun outdoor activities that come with the season. With that in mind, the Preferred Pest Control team has created this guide to help you identify stinging insects in and around your lawn and help you know when and how to act should ...
Are Bees a Problem at Your Southern California Home?
What to Do when Bees Invade Your OC Home If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ve heard about the plight of the honey bees and the resulting damage their demise could cause for everyone here on planet earth. As you know, honey bees, in most cases, live among humans peacefully, providing us with delicious honey. Where do Bees Live and What Seasons are They Active? There are times, though, when bees can become a problem for residents in Orange County and, in turn, homeowners must act. Most often, this occurs in late spring or early summer. While beekeepers work hard to keep excess queens from escaping the hive ...
Bees and Wasps + Other Sting Insects
While spring is nearly gone, bees and wasps are here to stay—that is until the season for such sting insects tails off in late fall. What this means for Orange County residents and homeowners? Be on the lookout for buzzing in walls and around the house, as bees can (and have) nested in the home. In fact, one North Virginia building recently contained as much as 70,000 bees and 100 (whopping) tons of honey—fortunately, it was abandoned! However, a non-abandoned residential house in New Jersey was not as lucky; homeowners found 30,000 bees buzzing in their walls. While both situations happened on the east coast, it’s important to note that ...
Orange County Beehive Removal
Have you noticed an abundance of bees recently around your home or business? If so, you might have a beehive nearby that might need removal… Bees and Beehives As you might already know, bees are very important to the Eco-system and the survival of many other lifeforms, including humans. There are tens of thousands of species of bees in the world and most of them live quietly in peace but there are also those who do not. If you spot a beehive, determining what kind of bees live there can be an important factor in getting rid of them. If the hive looks like paper, it is most likely not ...
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 ...
Bee Prevention
Spring is here! The sun is shining bright, barbeques are being pulled out, kids are playing in the streets, beaches are getting crowded, flowers are blooming, and bees are a-buzzing! Wait! Bees? That’s right! The arrival of spring also means the arrival of bees, and even though bees are beneficial to the environment, most of us do not want them building a hive on our property. So how do you keep that from happening? Unfortunately there is nothing you can do to ensure that you do not get bees on your property, but you can help make your property less appealing to them. Inspect the exterior of your home and ...