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 ...
How to Prevent Wasps from Invading Your Home
Wasps in Orange County In October and November, Orange County homeowners, businesses, and residents can expect to see scavenging Yellow Jacket Wasps hovering over trash cans and invading picnic gatherings and other outdoor festivities. A simple swat may send flies running. A wasp however, especially Yellow Jackets (a common wasp species in California), is another animal—or insect. According to University of California, Riverside, Yellow Jackets account for more injuries and deadly attacks than killer bees. What can OC homeowners and residents do to protect themselves from potential stings, much less stop these predators from nesting in and around their homes? Read on to find out! Have an Orange County Wasp ...
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 ...
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 ...
Can Roaches Survive A Nuclear Blast?
With the finding of the mutated butterflies at Japan’s nuclear disaster site and all the speculation of what other species may have been affected, it got me thinking about the lowly German roach. It has been said that if there is a nuclear war, roaches will be the only survivors. Is this truth or myth? Well, of course, if they were at ground 0, the blast itself would kill them. But what if they survived the blast? It is said that these little critters that we chase around with a can of Raid, would inherit the earth. The myth busters put this popular belief to the test and found that ...