Summertime Fleas
Summer is right around the corner and you know what that means…FLEAS! Don’t let these pesky critters ruin your summertime fun – learn how to control them from Preferred Pest Control! Identifying Fleas If you’ve had the pleasure of never seeing a flea, lucky you! People less fortunate than you know that they are wingless insects, about 2 ½ mm long, have a shiny brown color, and are capable of jumping huge distances. Fleas are parasites that suck blood from their hosts and are most usually found on hairy animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits, rats, and other animals. Fleas can lay about 20-50 eggs per day so to get ...
Sow Bug Prevention and Management
Facts about Sow Bugs: Although the word ‘bug’ is in their name, sow bugs (also referred to as woodlouse), are not really bugs at all and are in fact land-living crustaceans! They belong to arthropod group, which are invertebrate animals who have exoskeletons and jointed appendages. Sow bugs are tiny creatures who are about 1cm in length, have 7 pairs of legs, and have 2 pairs of antennae. Another bug that resembles the sow bug and is often mistaken for one is the pill bug. The pill bug has the ability to roll up into a ball when it is disturbed (unlike the sow bug) and the sow bug has appendages ...
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 ...
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 . . ...
Stopping Black Widow Spiders and Brown Widow Spiders In Their Tracks
Are Black & Brown Widow Spiders taking over your Southern California home? Read more details about Black and Brown Widow Spiders below to find out why they like Orange County so much and how stop them from infesting your house. Black Widow Spiders The Black Widow is a common spider in California and desert locations due to its ability to survive very dry and hot weather. They are attracted to clutter and trash near human structures and can be commonly found outside of homes. They are shy spiders, so they typically do not come inside your living space but rather will make their home outside in backyards – inside places ...