Keeping Those Spring Bouquets Beautiful
We love to see flowers as a part of our home decor. Most especially this spring when flowers are all in bloom. Flowers are the ideal way to show your love, but as much as humans love flowers, so do lots of unwanted pests. With that in mind it’s important to ensure your home is free from the pests that love your beloved’s favorite flowers by calling on the experts at Preferred Pest Control. But first, you need to know what flowers those pests love. Here’s a simple overview to help. Roses They are the most popular go-to flowers. As they say, you can never go wrong with roses. ...
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 ...
Summer Time Wasp & Yellow Jacket Problems? Call Preferred Pest Control Today!
It’s almost summer again and that means yellow jackets are getting ready to bug you around your home or office! Be on the lookout for any ground wasp or yellow jacket nests and call Preferred Pest Control asap to get rid of them! Give us a call today! (714) 486-2637 Yellow Jacket Wasps Did you know that people often confuse Yellow Jackets with Bees? Yep, its true, but Yellow Jackets are actually in the Wasp family and are very dangerous. Yellow Jackets have lance-like stingers with small, sharp barbs, and typically sting repeatedly at once. Most likely the stinger will get lodged in the skin and pull free from the ...
Orange County Pest Control Services
If you’re looking for Orange County Pest Control Services, whether it be fumigation services, pesticides, baits, or traps, look no further than Preferred Pest Control. We service all of Orange County and have extensive experience in the cities of Fountain Valley, Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Mission Viejo, San Clemente, Brea, Westminster, and more. Need Pest Control Services? Give us a call today! (714) 486-2637 At Preferred Pest Control of Orange County, Southern California, we have over 50 years of industry experience and are licensed, bonded, and insured. We believe that our company is built on old-fashioned honesty, integrity, and quality. Along with our industry standard pest control services, ...
Yellow Jacket Wasps in OC
It’s almost summer and that means it’s yellow jacket season! Be on the lookout for any ground wasps nests you find and call Preferred Pest Control if they become a nuisance! Need help with your Yellow Jacket or other types of wasps? Give us a call today! (714) 486-2637 Yellow Jacket Wasps The season for yellow jacket is upon us as yellow jackets are most active from May through October and reach their population peak around late summer. As you might have guessed, yellow jackets get their name from their yellow and black appearance. They have a very thin waist and measure up to 16mm. Yellow jacket wasps are distinguished ...
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 ...
Preventing and Controlling Wasps
Wasps There exists a lot of different species of wasps in nature, ranging from colors such as black, green, and blue while measuring to a few centimeters in length. These insects have two pairs of wings and a pinched abdomen. Like bees, wasps feed from flowers and act like pollinators but they are much more predatorily than bees, thus act as pest control for other types of insects and this is where their primary contribution to the environment lies. Like bees, wasps can either be solitary or social insects. The social type lives in colonies along with a great number of other wasps. A size of a wasp colony can ...