At Lloyd Pest Control, the last thing we want to do is to add more assignments to your docket—but we need to remind you of one task that sometimes gets pushed to the back burner until it’s too late: pest control.

In Southern California, pests don’t seem to take a break throughout the year. As new pests roll into town with the changing seasons, they are on the hunt for safe places to shack up, eat, and mate—and your home can provide the perfect conditions to do so.

While professional pest control can help remedy an ongoing infestation, scheduling regular pest control treatments throughout the year can keep you proactively protected while preventing the gamble of DIY pest control. (Fewer chores and less stress? Time for a big sigh of relief.)

But just how often should pest control be done at your house? And what pests should you be worried about throughout the Southern California seasons?

Is Quarterly Pest Control Worth It?

When it comes to regularly scheduled pest control, we suggest having your home treated once a quarter or every two to three months. And for good reason! General pest control—including treatments for pests like ants, spiders, rodents, roaches, silverfish, earwigs, and fleas—can become ineffective after a few months go by, which could leave your space exposed to incoming pests.

With quarterly treatments from Lloyd, you’ll be in a better position to safeguard your house from pests no matter what type of property you have or its location.

What Do Quarterly Pest Control Treatments Include?

During each treatment, one of our field-experienced pest technicians will monitor hot-spot areas for changes in pest activity. Even if pests aren’t directly visible, we will create environmentally-friendly pest control barriers—including sprayed applications and/or rodent traps that are pet-friendly—to guard your home against common pests all year long.

Ongoing Termite Prevention

If you’ve experienced a termite infestation in the past, our Termite Protection Plan is an annual program that will ensure termites don’t find their way back into your home. Available to customers whose properties received a whole structure treatment or a clean bill-of-wood-health from Lloyd, our protection plan is a transferable drywood and subterranean termite guarantee that lasts the lifetime of your home and includes:

• A free annual inspection to ensure we’re keeping termites away.
• Early detection of termites and wood-destroying invaders so we can help stop problems before they take hold of your home.
• Prompt eradication treatments for any termites that try to settle in your home. Even if it becomes necessary to fumigate your home again, we will provide this service at no charge.

Note: Our Termite Protection Plans are policies that include an annual premium.

Seasonal Pests in Southern California

Every year, a multitude of pests converge in Southern California. Depending upon the weather, some pests are more prone to infest your home or business due to their specific breeding season or need for man-made shelters for food and survival.

January through March

At the beginning of the year, pests are searching high and low for warmth and easily accessible food sources. Without professional pest control in place from Lloyd, your home could be a haven for cold, hungry insects and wildlife. Additionally, as we move into spring, certain pests become more active as they seek out areas to colonize with nearby food sources.

The most common pests calls we receive from January through March include:

• Rodents
• Spiders
• Silverfish
• Subterranean termites

Note: Subterranean termites begin to swarm in early spring.

April through June

With spring in full swing and summer right around the corner, pests in SoCal have gained a foothold establishing their numbers in the warmer weather. As they seek out food sources to feed their colonies, they can easily make their way into your home if it’s not protected.

The most common pests calls we receive from April through June include:

• Ants
• Fleas
• Earwigs
• Spiders

July through September

As the hottest three months of the year, July, August, and September continue to provide the perfect climate for a plethora of pests. Many pests we see from April to June are still thriving, and their drive to nourish their colonies hasn’t waned.

Pests we frequently treat from July through September include:

• Ants
• Fleas
• Earwigs
• Spiders
• Drywood termites

Note: Drywood termite swarmers begin to take flight in September.

October through December

During the final three months of the year, temperatures start to drop again—meaning pests will begin seeking out a comfortable place to survive through the winter. During October and November, drywood termites are still out and about, too, searching for any exposed wood to sink their teeth into.

Autumnal pests we commonly treat from October through December include:

• Spiders
• Drywood termites
• Ants
• Fleas
• Earwigs
• Rodents

Year-Round Pests

On top of all the seasonal pests we treat, there are a few outliers that are just as likely to infiltrate your home any time of the year, including:

• Bed bugs
• Roaches
• Nuisance birds

Prevent Pests All Year Long with Quarterly Pest Control Services

With so many pests trying to knock down your door all year long, quarterly pest control services from Lloyd will help to keep your home protected—no matter what pests are in season. Give us a call today to discuss unique, annual pest control programs built for your property type and location. When you choose Lloyd Pest Control, the bug stops here!

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Whether you’re receiving packages from a meal subscription plan or you’re temporarily handling child care, you’re probably focusing on getting out and about as little as possible. But, as you continue to use your living environment more than ever before, your day-to-day activities are likely attracting some unexpected guests: pests.

Here at Lloyd, we want to make sure your time at home is smooth and safe—which is why we are here to help you keep your home pest-free. With an increase in the amount of food we are eating, trash we are creating, and the life we are living in our spaces, all sorts of pests are catching on to our new routines.

From rodents searching for food in your kitchen to wildlife preying on your food deliveries, our team has a few pointers on what you can do to prevent unwanted houseguests during quarantine.

How to Prevent Pests During Quarantine

Unfortunately, the stay-at-home orders are happening during the spring and summer months, which is a prime time for pest activity here in Southern California. That means pests like rodents, roaches, ants, fleas, termites, and more are on the move in search of food and shelter. If the proper precautions aren’t put in place now, your space can become a pest paradise in the ensuing months.

Accept Package Deliveries Promptly

With an influx of package deliveries at your doorstep (especially grocery and meal subscription deliveries), your chances of attracting pests to your home increase drastically.

Because cardboard is a food source for cockroaches, these insects can get inside packages during the shipping process and lay eggs. If boxes are improperly disposed of in your home or garage, it could potentially lead to the beginning of a roach infestation. Cockroaches aren’t the only pest attracted to boxes on your porch, either. Rodents, ants, and squirrels can catch wind of grocery or food deliveries if these packages are left outdoors for too long.

Make sure to get your packages indoors promptly, dispose of cardboard boxes properly, and ensure your outdoor trash cans are sealed with a tight-fitting lid to prevent these pests from thinking your home is an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Clean Your Common Spaces Frequently

Whether you’re cooking more at home or ordering take-out frequently, food waste inside your space can draw in pests quickly. After cooking and eating, make sure you’re cleaning your countertops and dishware promptly. Dirty dishes in the sink, dried spills on your counters, and loosely sealed indoor trash cans can provide ample food sources for pests like ants and rodents.

If you have children home with you, there might be dirty dishware or snacks located in places they shouldn’t be. Be sure to inspect common areas regularly—including basements, bedrooms, coffee tables, playrooms, and breakfast bars— as even the smallest crumbs of food can attract unwanted bugs.

Inspect Your Outdoor Vehicle

If your car sits outdoors in your driveway or on the street, it’s important to check under your hood at least once a week—especially if you haven’t been driving much recently. When cars sit outside for too long, rodents like mice and squirrels can easily take shelter inside your engine bay, chewing on wires, cables, and even air filters in search of food.

To ward off these pests from being attracted to your vehicle, make sure all food bags, coffee cups, and spilled fries are picked up and properly disposed of. In addition, seal all openings—such as cracked doors or sunroofs—to the best of your ability and try to keep your car away from bushes, trees, or foliage. 

Call Lloyd to Stay Pest-Free at Home

While we are still under the stay-at-home order, it’s important to remember that pests are attracted to your house the more you live in it.

From consuming or cooking more food to creating more waste inside your space, you need to take the proper precautions to ensure pests don’t start sheltering in place with you and your family. And, if you want to truly implement an effective pest control strategy, the team at Lloyd Pest Control is waiting in the wings to kick bugs to your curb.

At Lloyd, our technicians work alone in the field and employ personal protective equipment—including wearing gloves and medical-grade respirators while we are inside or around your property. So, no matter what pest you are dealing with while you are staying at home, we will make sure you stay shielded while we take care of your infestation.

Don’t hesitate to give us a call today for minimally invasive, low-intensity pest barriers around the interior and exterior of your home.

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For prehistoric pests, cockroaches—German cockroaches (Blattella germanica), in particular—have been notoriously great at propagating their species all over the world, utilizing the shelter of man-made structures to survive all types of inclement weather. These cockroaches have been found in human dwellings on every continent aside from Antarctica.

Although German cockroaches are inherently hearty insects that have survived ice ages, rogue meteors, and mass extinctions, they’re also beginning to survive present-day pest control treatment methods—making them even more difficult to contain than most other pests.

So, how do we go about finding German cockroach kryptonite if they’re becoming immune to even the most advanced treatments? To better understand how to get rid of German cockroaches, let’s take a closer look at their life cycle, reproductive process, and eating habits in the modern world.

The German Cockroach Life Cycle

With three distinct life stages—egg, nymph, and adult—German cockroaches go through incomplete metamorphosis (where early stages of development look like tiny versions of an adult) and complete their entire life cycle in about 100 days. However, the exact timeline of the German cockroach life cycle depends on environmental factors such as climate, access to food, and various strain differences.

German cockroaches are excellent breeders, continuously producing offspring into their multi-generational, isolated groups if no intervention takes place. When populations are actively growing, the group consists of nearly 80 percent nymphs (newborn roaches) and 20 percent adults.

Reproduction Cycle

After a male and female German cockroach mate, the female will carry her eggs in an egg case on her lower abdomen (scientifically known as the ootheca, these egg sacs can hold 30 to 48 eggs) right up until hatch occurs—helping to optimize offspring birth location while keeping larvae and nymphs away from danger.

During the transition of a nymph becoming an adult, roaches will molt—meaning they will shed their exoskeleton (exuviae) roughly six times. After each molt, the roach will appear bright white and be particularly susceptible to injury until a hormone called bursicon causes the exoskeleton to darken and harden. The period between each molt is called an instar.

Physical Characteristics of the German Cockroach

Adult German cockroaches measure 10 to 15 mm long, are brown to dark brown, and feature two distinct parallel bands running the length of the pronotum (the plate-like structure that covers their thorax).

Male German cockroaches feature:

• Thin, slender body shapes
• Tapered posterior abdomen
• Visible terminal segments in the abdomen
• Not covered by tegmina (leathery outer wings)

Female German cockroaches feature:

• Stout body shapes
• Rounded posterior abdomen
• Entire abdomen covered by tegmina

German cockroaches draw in air through holes in their sides called spiracles, have colorless blood due to not using hemoglobin to carry oxygen and store their fat in one centralized location called the fat body.

What Do German Cockroaches Eat?

Roaches have a very unique digestive system that allows them to eat practically anything. From bread and meat to furniture glue and book bindings, roaches are omnivores with specialized internal modifications that allow them to eat cellulose and other tough materials along with human food.

In their digestive tract, they have a section called a crop that holds swallowed food until the proventriculus—a toothy section of the tract—can break down the food. After the initial breakdown, gastric caeca sacs digest food even further with the use of enzymes and microbes—making it easier for German cockroaches to consume dense material like cellulose.

Where Do German Cockroaches Live?

Residential Homes & Multi-Family Communities

You might think roaches only infest dirty homes, but that myth has been debunked! While it’s true that a lack of readily available food will prevent extreme breeding from happening, German roaches can infest even the cleanest homes that feature moist, warm areas.

The safe, predictable indoors is much more hospitable to German roaches than the harsh outdoors. If there’s a way in, a roach population will be more than happy to make themselves welcome.

Two rooms are particularly susceptible to roaches in residential areas: kitchens and bathrooms. Kitchens are great sources of food and home to plenty of warm, dark corners (like behind the fridge condenser and underneath the stove). Bathrooms are usually the wettest rooms in the house, so roaches are perfectly fine hanging out there, too.

Businesses

Restaurants, hotels, and rental properties are the three businesses most often infested by roaches, as they are easy targets for nutritious meals and ample warm nooks. Service businesses that don’t practice satisfactory sanitation are most prone, but roaches are tough creatures that can make their way to clean businesses, as well.

Other areas of businesses that roaches like to infest include:

• Salons
• Break rooms
• Food processing plants

Non-service businesses are also vulnerable. Roaches can hitch a ride with employees or in shipments with cardboard boxes or paper sacks, which are favorite hiding places for these insects. And because roaches can multiply quickly, offices and high-rises certainly aren’t immune to an infestation, either.

How Are Cockroaches Harmful to Humans?

It’s commonly known that rodents and mosquitoes carry disease, but cockroaches are equally dangerous in this regard—not to mention they don’t smell great due to using cuticular hydrocarbons to communicate. Roaches can carry bacteria and viruses on their bodies and spread disease via their droppings.

Some of these diseases include:

• Cholera
• Dysentery
• Salmonellosis
• E. Coli
• Leprosy
• Plague

Although cockroaches won’t directly contaminate you with a disease, a population of roaches—particularly roaches that come in contact with bacteria from sewers, latrines, or drains—can quickly contaminate large swaths of your house or business. This is problematic because they don’t even need to be in sight for their diseases to reach you.

Molting or Decaying Roaches Are Respiratory Nightmares

During molting or death, roaches pose a significant health risk to humans of all ages due to the makeup of their exuviae. Roaches’ exoskeleton is made up of a protein called chitin (a fibrous substance consisting of polysaccharides that form the exoskeleton of arthropods), which eventually breaks down and becomes airborne.

This protein is an allergen for many, causing dermatitis, itching, swelling of the eyelids, a runny nose, rashes, and other severe allergic reactions. Furthermore, exposure to chitin from cockroaches has been linked to the development of asthma in children.

Additionally, roaches emit yet another foul stench when they die: oleic acid. These fatty acids cause a “stench of death” that notifies the entire group to stay far away from the death site—but these smells are also off-putting to humans.

How German Cockroaches Are Inching Toward Invincibility

German cockroaches can survive without their heads for weeks, hold their breath for 5-7 minutes, and withstand 10 times more nuclear radiation than a human—so it comes as no surprise that they’re growing immunity to modern pesticides used to control their tight-knit populations. Scientific reports have recently stated that controlling German cockroaches with traditional treatments alone will be nearly impossible soon.

Since the 1950s, German cockroaches have been developing resistance to every insecticide class introduced. This immunity is developed within cockroaches due to their closed populations facilitating rapid evolution for high-level resistance. While German cockroach baits were once the answer to fight against roach pesticide immunities, these indomitable insects are also developing a physiological resistance to common traps.

Sugar Baits Aren’t So Sweet Anymore

When baits were first introduced to cockroach populations, they were laden with sugar, as roaches are attracted to glucose and need it to promote growth, energy, and reproduction. German cockroaches caught on to these traps and developed an adaptive behavioral aversion to glucose, signaling their taste neurons to react negatively when ingesting sugar baits.

How To Prevent Roaches from Infesting Your Property

While you’re probably looking up flights to the South Pole’s roach-free tundra now, there are plenty of ways to learn how to get rid of German cockroaches—both on your own and with professional help:

Sanitation, Sanitation, Sanitation

The single best thing you can do to combat roaches is sanitation. Yes, roaches can eat lots of things, but if there isn’t ready access to food in your home or business, it will be very difficult or impossible to maintain a strong population.

Cleaning Your Restaurant

If you’re cleaning a restaurant, make sure not to hose down the floors at the end of a shift, as this excessive moisture sitting overnight can attract German cockroaches from all angles. Additionally, ensure your staff is properly discarding leftover food material in sealed containers or bins.

Close Off Outside Entrances to Your Home or Building

Even if your home or business is perfectly clean, roaches could enter if there’s a way in from the outside. Do some investigating—and caulking work—to close any potential entry points around your property while ensuring there are no leaky pipes or areas with excessive moisture.

How To Get Rid of German Cockroaches with Lloyd

If roaches crawling around your Southern California property is driving you up the wall, let the professionals at Lloyd Pest Control step in and help. Lloyd proudly uses sustainable roach control tactics that feature the lowest toxicity levels possible.

In many cases, our low-impact gel baiting—specifically designed to target roaches with behavioral aversions to outdated formulas—works excellently to eradicate German cockroaches. As adult roaches venture out to forage food for their nymphs, they will pick up the bait and bring it back to their aggregation area, which ensures all roaches present consume the material.

To deploy our baits in the correct areas, our team will set up sticky traps (monitors) in notable roach hotspots that contain high heat levels, moisture, and food sources—continuously monitoring traffic to ensure roach populations are dwindling.

Don’t delay on roach control; contact Lloyd Pest Control today to learn how to get rid of German cockroaches!

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With conducive habitats, booming rat populations, and plenty of potential hosts, flea-borne typhus outbreaks are on the rise throughout urban areas in Los Angeles and Orange County—which means that fleas aren’t an issue we can simply ignore.

To better understand how you can get rid of fleas and prevent disease, it’s best to learn about the origins of flea-borne typhus and what you can do to make your surroundings less attractive to these blood-sucking parasites:

What Is Flea-Borne Murine Typhus?

Not to be confused with typhoid fever (caused by Salmonella Typhi bacteria and spread via contaminated food and water) or epidemic typhus (caused by Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted via body lice), flea-borne murine typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi or Rickettsia felis bacteria and is spread by fleas infected from biting sick rats, mice, opossums, feral cats, or homeless dogs.

How Do Fleas Transmit Typhus to Humans?

This disease occurs in humans when either 1) a bacteria-laden flea latches onto a host (aka you) to feed on their blood, 2) infectious flea fecal matter (known as “flea dirt”) gets rubbed into wounds in the skin or mucous membranes (aka your eyes), or 3) flea dirt is breathed in.

Even worse, infected fleas tend to defecate while biting you, creating a streamlined source for the disease to enter your body.

Symptoms of Murine Typhus

One to two weeks after being bitten, an infected host can expect a rapidly ensuing fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, abdominal pain, or vomiting that typically last a few days.

Additionally, maculopapular rashes—rashes that contain both flat and raised skin lesions— may occur. Typhus that’s left untreated can lead to severe complications with your major organs, including your:

• Kidneys
• Liver
• Lungs
• Eyes
• Heart
• Brain

Murine Typhus Treatment

While no vaccination exists to prevent flea-borne murine typhus, doctors can treat those who are infected with the antibiotic doxycycline soon after symptoms begin.

Filth and Clutter Attracts Rats and Fleas

While fleas can contract typhus from various animals, extensive rat populations in the city are becoming a primary source of flea-borne murine typhus.

The rat population has been exploding in homeless encampments due to unsanitary conditions, an exorbitant amount of trash improperly disposed of, and the elimination of rodent control methods under legislation such as AB 1788.

Even city hall officials have felt the impact of a typhus outbreak from rat infestations, causing staff to tear out rat-contaminated office carpet that led to sick employees.

“California is being overrun by rodents—and without immediate emergency action by state and local government, we face significant economic costs and risk a public health crisis,” said Carl DeMaio, chairman of Reform California, at a news conference at city hall where he discussed his group’s recent report on rats becoming a public health crisis in more ways than one.

Stopping Fleas to Prevent Disease

While controlling the city-wide issue of unsanitary homeless encampments and rat infestations might be a challenge, keeping you, your family, and your pets safe from fleas only takes a few simple preventative measures:

Administer Flea Medications to Your Pets

To stop fleas from harming you or your pets’ health, the first (and most important) thing to do is keep up to date on your pets’ flea treatments. Utilize veterinarian-approved medications for both cats and dogs, including flea collars, oral medications, or topical treatments.

It’s almost inevitable that you’ll have a flea issue otherwise, as your pets are susceptible to these pests no matter where they go.

Eliminate Yard Waste and Debris

Fleas flock to landscaping with plenty of moisture and safe places to live, so make sure to remove leaf litter, rock piles, cords of firewood, and other debris from your yard. Also, make sure to keep your grass and hedges trimmed short to prevent any additional flea breeding grounds.

The less flea-friendly your yard is, the less likely your pet will encounter them at home.

Keep Wild Animals Away from Your Home

Finally, keep feral cats, opossums, and rodents—and any traces of them—far away from you and your home.

Don’t pet or feed wild animals near your house, in the park, or out on a hike, regardless of how cute they may seem. At home, ensure all your trash cans, recycle bins, or compost bins have lids that are always sealed tight, and store all food—including your pet’s food—in air-tight containers to avoid attracting hungry animals.

Our Flea Control: Preventing Fleas from Coming Back

Fleas are tough buggers to combat. In fact, they’re the second-most difficult pest to eradicate behind bed bugs, considering their fast reproduction, hardiness, and ability to hide in furniture and carpet fibers.

That’s why, at Lloyd Pest Control, we ward off these tiny disease-spreaders with low-intensity pest barriers outdoors and spot treatments indoors. No matter where fleas are lurking in your home or what life cycle stage they’re in, our team will target their colonies at the source with treatments that are safe for both you and your pets.

Additionally, if you’re dealing with rats or mice, we provide comprehensive rodent control through thorough inspections, exclusion recommendations, and the use of advanced traps and baits.

Contact us today for flea control that goes above and beyond most—and keeps the health of you, your family, and your pets in check.

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What Makes Ants Superior by Nature

Ants are a superior pest by nature because, quite simply, there are so many of them. With impressive reproduction rates, their sheer numbers help them outnumber any other insect around. Many ant colonies house multiple queens who lay up to 1,000 eggs per day. It makes sense, then, that their populations come to dominate the areas in which they reside. Colonies can contain thousands or even millions of ants – numbers that most pests simply can’t match.

The second big reason ants have become the top pest problem is their social makeup. Other pests like spiders typically live in isolation, while ants are “social insects” that work together as one unit. It’s not uncommon to see ants protect one another or even give their lives for their colony. When starting a new nest, colonies send out scouts that look for a food source and often die in the process. They leave behind pheromones that trail all the way back to the nest. This provides the colony a direct route to a tasty meal.

The Southern California Ant Takeover

Ants have taken advantage of travel to make it to virtually every corner of the Earth. The more we become a globalized society, the easier it is for ants to reach commercial and travel hubs like Southern California via cargo ships, trucks, and even airplanes. It’s hard to imagine tiny ants surviving at 30,000 feet, but it’s indeed possible. In our region, there are two foreign species – often called “tramp ants” – that have quickly taken over: Argentine ants and red imported fire ants.

Rather than the invading ants having to adjust to new environments, we’ve already done the work for them, adjusting ourselves with green lawns, food-filled buildings, and interiors with plenty of hiding places. Southern California used to be full of odorous house ants and harvester ants, but now sees Argentine ants outcompete them in crowded cities while red imported fire ants have come to dominate the desert.

In the City: Argentine Ants

Argentine ants may not sting like fire ants, but they make up for it with their overall dominance as a species. The reason they’ve replaced many native ants in our region is because:

• They’re prolific reproducers – Argentine ants are set up to outnumber other ants, with more queens per colony and, thus, more offspring. They take the term “strength in numbers” to a whole new level, often winning physical battles, too.
• They’re not aggressive toward their own – Unlike other ants, Argentine ant colonies work together, often joining forces in one “supercolony.” It’s even rumored that there’s an Argentine supercolony in Southern California.

At Lloyd Pest Control, nearly 95 percent of ant infestations we deal with in the city involve the Argentine species. They’re attracted to overwatered lawns and tropical plants, which offer an environment like their native Amazonian region of South America.

Argentine ants prefer to nest outdoors, looking for places in trees, soil, or under logs. From there, they then trek indoors in search of food, bringing it back to the nest with pheromone trails as their arsenal.

In the Desert: Red Imported Fire Ants

In the Southern California desert (notably, the area stretching from Palm Springs to Coachella), fire ants reign supreme. Two species call the desert home: the native fire ant and the invasive fire ant, also called the red imported fire ant.

Both species crave dry environments – hence, they’re both fond of the desert. But it’s the red imported fire ant that’s more concerning because it’s much more aggressive.

Red imported fire ants’ colonies, like Argentine ant colonies, are bigger than most ant colonies – with populations often numbering in the millions. They live underground, coming to the surface in search of nearby food sources.
Unlike Argentine ants, they spend all their time outdoors, seeking nearby insects, honeydew, and vegetables to satisfy their omnivorous appetite. Be wary of finding the ants near you – their large dirt mound nests are everywhere from backyards to parks to and baseball fields.

A good reason to be wary of fire ants is their stinging ability, which, added to their massive numbers, makes them a big health threat. Taking care of a nest sooner rather than later is key to avoiding a painful encounter.

If threatened, the ants will send out an alarm pheromone, quickly pouring out through the opening of their nest to attack you relentlessly. They don’t sting once, but over and over – there have been instances of people getting stung thousands of times. Ouch!

How to Fight Back Against Ants

While ants are the world’s number one pest nuisance for a reason, there are steps you can take to stop their takeover. To prevent Argentine ants from infesting, do the following:

• Take away the food sources by wiping up crumbs and keeping food in sealed containers.
• Make it harder for them to get indoors by sealing cracks and voids and keeping bushes and trees away from your structure.
• Prevent attracting them to your yard in the first place by not overwatering your lawn.

When it comes to fire ants, there’s not as much you can do to prevent infestations. Fortunately, they’re only found outdoors, so the best thing you can do is keep an eye out for their nests once they pop up. If you spot one on your property, the first thing you should do is call in the professionals for safe ant control.

Professional Ant Control in Southern California

At Lloyd Pest Control, we use two different methods for both Argentine and fire ants: insecticides (for smaller colonies) and baits (for larger colonies). Baits are taken back to the nest by workers, and within a few days, they take down an entire colony – including the queens. Contact us for thorough ant control in Southern California today.

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Despite bed bugs living among humans for eons, there was a point in time when these blood-sucking bugs were so rare in the United States that some Americans didn’t even know they existed. If you were one of these people, you may have once believed they were simply a fictional, nursery rhyme creature.

But, due to a combination of factors including increased travel, regulations on powerful pesticides, and genetic resistance, bed bugs have come back with a vengeance.

In Southern California especially, they’re proving to be very real by causing quite the panic-ridden ordeal.

A Bed-Bug-Free America

Bed bug problems go as far back as 3,500 years ago when humans were living in caves. For the U.S., bed bugs sailed on the same ship that brought the first colonists. From the time the Mayflower hit land to the late 1930s, they were a staple in American life. Infestations were common, and the pesky bugs appeared impossible to wipe out.

It wasn’t until 1939, when the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller created the pesticide DDT, that weary homeowners were finally able to fight back.

For decades, Americans sprayed DDT all over their homes and hotels, effectively keeping their space bed bug-free. Since insects had never experienced a synthetic poison before, both bed bugs and many other pests were vulnerable.

But, in the 1970s, the U.S. ultimately banned DDT, as it was proven to be highly toxic to humans and other wildlife, too.

How Bed Bugs Made a Comeback

After 60 years of near eradication in the U.S., bed bugs bounced back. Many insects have the keen ability to adapt to their environment, and in the early 2000s, pockets of pesticide-resistant bed bugs popped up throughout the world.

Three ways bed bugs have become resistant to pesticides like DDT include:

• They developed a genetic mutation that allowed them to close their ion channels, which DDT worked to open and harm their nervous systems.
• They acquired enzymes that help them break down the toxicity of pesticides quicker, making them less effective.
• They have started to grow thicker exoskeletons, which make it tougher for pesticides to penetrate.

Hasty Hitchhikers

Bed bugs’ resistance to pesticides has allowed them to come back in large numbers, but how exactly did these durable bugs make it all over the world? Well, they’re remarkably good hitchhikers.

They’re attracted to body heat, pheromones, and carbon dioxide, and they’re known to catch a ride on traveling tourists and their luggage while staying in a hotel. Pair this with the continued increase in air travel – domestically and internationally – that helps bed bugs spread, and it’s no wonder these bugs have been able to come back so rapidly.

Because our Southern California home is a hotspot for vacationers, we typically have bigger bed bug issues, too. Tourists from across the world are constantly arriving in airports and bringing bed bugs in. Infestations in San Diego, Palm Springs, and Orange County have proven our region is no exception. With long commutes and a constantly mobile population, bed bugs have effectively gotten everywhere.

Identifying Bed Bugs

You may not realize you have unwanted houseguests until you wake up with mysterious bites and rashes, or – if you’re allergic – you may not even notice an infestation until it gets bad. People’s inability to identify bed bugs is another factor that has led to their resurgence in the U.S.

By nature, bed bugs are cryptic insects, hiding in cracks and crevices during the day, only coming out under the cover of darkness. To help you spot them, look for reddish-brown colored insects with flat, oval-shaped bodies.

Common Hiding Spots

Infesting places from five-star hotels to halfway houses, bed bugs don’t discriminate – they’ll reside anywhere there’s a host.

They’re named after their preference for the sanctuary of your bedroom, but other hotspots include sofas and any place you spend an extended amount of time not moving very much.

Since bed bugs are typically nocturnal, they despise being out in the open or a lot of sunlight, so they hide in openings in furniture, floors, and walls during the day or whenever you’re not home.

For bedrooms, you may think mattresses alone are bed bug hubs. But, as a soft surface without many crevices to take shelter in, the bug prefers to hide in the box spring, headboard, and nightstand before flocking to the host at night. Don’t be fooled by believing any crack is too small, either. A hatchling is the mere size of the head of a nail.

Preventing Bed Bugs

For frequent travelers, a quick bed bug check should be the first thing you do upon arriving at a hotel. Before bringing your luggage through the door, take a flashlight and perform a precursory inspection of the mattress, box spring, and headboard. This is one of the best ways to ensure you don’t take any hitchhikers back to your home and set up a whole new infestation.

Bringing second-hand furniture into your home is another thing you should be cautious about when it comes to preventing bed bugs. It’s common for people to purchase used furniture for an unbeatable deal or pick a piece up off the curb, only to realize later that it’s infested with bed bugs. So, the next time you’re tempted to give discarded furniture a new home, it may be wise to think twice about the price.

Turning to Treatment

One of the most important things to keep in mind when it comes to bed bugs is that it’s easier and cheaper to treat an infestation early. Simply throwing out the mattress isn’t a solution, as bed bugs can hide in a variety of cracks throughout your home. It’s best to call in the professionals as soon as you have a suspicion that these bothersome bugs are harboring in your home.

Fight Back Against Bed Bugs with Professional Help

Bed bugs are currently one of the greatest challenges facing the pest control industry. But at Lloyd Pest Control, we have the expert bed bug treatments you need to carefully and effectively banish existing bugs from your bedroom. While bed bugs can always come back due to their traveling nature, we approach them with a variety of treatments, including:

• Removing them with a vacuum-chambered device
• Sealing the mattress and box spring in a bug-proof encasement
• Administering a variety of pesticides to targeted areas
• Applying heat treatments when preferred

We also conduct follow-up treatments to ensure they are stopped at every life stage. By checking every possible hiding place, we want to ensure no bug gets left behind. If you need help combatting bed bugs in Southern California, contact Lloyd Pest Control for the most thorough solution.

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Far from your friendly sea snail, Gary, brown garden snails can be a cosmetic and costly burden on your crops and plants, chewing up the outside layer of your fruits and eating holes in the leaves of your landscaping with thousands of microscopic teeth.

At Lloyd Pest Control, we want all Southern California residents and farmers to keep pests like garden snails from causing extensive damage to their landscaping or produce. But to do so, it’s crucial to understand how to identify the brown garden snail, what environments allow them to thrive, and what you can do to keep these soggy snails far from your land.

Identifying Brown Garden Snails

As a member of the mollusk phylum family, brown garden snails have a similar anatomy to the slug (Deroceras reticulatum), with the addition of spiral shells on their backs. These gastropods are around 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter and have a distinct brown-gray color pattern on their bodies. Their shells normally range from yellowish-brown to a cream-like color, featuring spiral bands with dark, muted-yellow flecks and streaks.

Both land slugs and snails are hermaphrodites – meaning that each mollusk has male and female reproductive organs, giving them all the ability to lay eggs after mating. Fully matured brown garden snails lay about 80 spherical, pearl-white eggs at a time in holes within the topsoil. With the ability to lay eggs up to six times a year, these gooey garden snails utilize the mild California weather to grow their populations rapidly.

Snails and slugs move by sliding along on their muscular undersides, constantly secreting mucus that helps to streamline their movements. You can tell if these pests are in your area by their silvery trails that are left behind once their mucus highways dry up – or if there’s noticeable damage to your produce or plants.

How Snails Survive On Your Land

Brown garden snails thrive in moist environments that are safely hidden from the heat of the sun. Most active during foggy, cloudy, or rainy days when it’s damp, these snail scoundrels will feed on a wide variety of living plants and decaying plant matter – such as young tree bark, ripe or ripening fruit crops, or young tree or plant leaves.

Other common plants snails consume include:

• Basil
• Beans
• Cabbage
• Dahlia
• Delphinium
• Hosta
• Lettuce
• Marigolds
• Various vegetable plants

When feeding on plants, snails opt for seedlings, succulents, turfgrass, or herbs. As they munch on your foliage, they scrape their rasp-like tongues along the smooth edges of plant leaves and succulent arms, causing irregular-shaped holes and chips across the outermost surface area. Thankfully, most snails won’t be able to eat enough of your plants to kill them before you notice, so the damage they cause on your ornamentals is mostly an aesthetic issue.

Snails also go after many different types of ripe or ripening fruits – such as strawberries, tomatoes, and citrus fruits (feeding on both the fruit and bark of citrus trees). When snacking on fruits, they chew out circular-shaped areas on the rind – making the fruit appear unappetizing and blemished. Snails can be extremely damaging when nesting and reproducing in citrus fruit orchards, as citrus farmers utilize irrigation methods that create the perfect, moist environment for snails to prosper.

How to Prevent Snails from Moving In

Eliminate Snail Hideouts

Dealing with an abundance of snails on your land starts with eliminating as many snail hideouts as possible. From tall weeds around tree trunks to loose organic debris around your garden or produce, snails will look for any dark, shaded place they can find to call home. Naturally, you may have areas across your land that create natural snail hiding places and cannot be changed, so do your best to check on these specific spots frequently.

Opt for Drip Irrigation Methods

When setting up irrigation methods, opt for drip irrigation rather than sprinkler irrigation to reduce humidity and minimize multiple moist surfaces in the area. Drip irrigation techniques allow your plants to be watered closer to their roots, keeping the surface level drier. Additionally, make sure to irrigate your crops or plants in the morning time, allowing the soil to dry out throughout the day rather than staying soaked overnight.

Landscape with Snail-Resistant Plants

If you notice snails thriving in certain spots of your yard, try to avoid growing plants or produce that they are attracted to. Remember, snails and slugs primarily feed on seedlings and succulent foliage.

Types of plants that snails are NOT attracted to include:

• Lavender
• Rosemary
• Sage
• Ferns
• Cyclamen
• Hydrangea
• California Poppy
• Nasturtium
• Lantana

Snails tend to stray far away from plants that are highly scented, ornamental woody plants, and ornamental grasses.

How to Get Rid of Snails When They Start to Scavenge

Hand-Pick Them Out

While this method might seem primitive, hand-picking snails from your garden or crops on a daily basis can be an effective way to eliminate their numbers. When scouring your area for snails, pay close attention to any hiding spots that may allow for snail populations to grow and do your best to get rid of them.

If you’re noticing snail damage but having a tough time sourcing them, you can water your entire area by hose or sprinkler during the late afternoon – starting your snail search after the sun sets with the help of a flashlight. Each time you hand-pick snails from your yard, you can put them in an empty bucket and relocate them to areas at least 65 feet (20 meters) away. It’s thought that snails have a natural homing instinct, but if they are taken far enough away from your garden or farm, they likely won’t be able to find their way back.

Set Humane Snail Traps and Barriers

In addition to temporarily utilizing sprinkler or hose irrigation to draw out snails, you can set up humane traps that enhance your chances of snatching snails at the source. To aid in capture, you can build and place wooden traps with runners throughout your landscape to allow them to crawl underneath – checking the underside at least once a week to see if snails are attached, hand-picking them off, and then relocating them.

Additionally, snails’ mucus secretions have a chemical reaction to copper, causing misfiring in their nervous systems and delivering an electric shock if they come in contact. Copper foil, banding, or screens on or around your garden can help keep snails far away from your valuable landscaping or food.

Salt

If you’ve ever poured table salt on a rogue slug in your driveway, then you know that this simplified solution can work! Mollusks are made up of a great deal of water, and their membranes are more permeable than most animals. Therefore, salt poured on top of these critters causes osmosis to occur – a biological phenomenon in which water passes from one region of high water concentration through a semipermeable membrane to a region of lower water concentration. This means that when salt is applied to snails, large amounts of fluid from inside their membranes rush to the surface to restore equilibrium and dilute the concentration of salt.

Although salt can be a great way to take care of a few snails here and there, using large amounts of organic salt in your garden can increase the salinity of the soil and damage your plants or crops. If the level of salts in the soil water is too high, water may flow from the plant roots back into the soil – resulting in dehydration of the plant, yield decline, or even death of the plant. If using salt, make sure to use inorganic salt (without a carbon-hydrogen bond) to ward off snails without harming your landscape.

Introduce Decollate Snails

Decollate snails (Rumina decollata) are natural predators to brown garden snails. By introducing these snails to your garden or crop, they can eliminate your harmful snail infestation with minimal damage to your land. Decollate snails are easy to differentiate from brown snails, as they have conical shells and grow to about 2 to 2.5 inches long.

During the daytime, decollates live in the first few inches of moist topsoil, leaf mulch, or underneath rocks. As the sun sets, they become active and will hunt slugs and snails – feasting on all types of mollusks and their eggs. If this method isn’t controlled properly, decollate snails can cause immense damage to endangered snail species or certain plants nearby, so be sure to contact your local department of agriculture for best practices.

Let Lloyd Pest Control Handle Your Lawn Pests

If snails are constantly returning to your garden or farm, don’t fret! These strategic methods can help you keep snails’ teeth far away from your ornamentals or produce the humane way – saving your valuable crops and luscious landscaping.

For more information on how Lloyd Pest Control can help you get rid of common lawn pests – such as ants, spiders, or fleas – don’t hesitate to get in touch with one of our pest professionals or get your free, instant quote today!

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In Southern California, wasps begin to build their numbers at the first sign of spring, creating their nests in tucked-away places to keep them protected from predators. If these sly stingers build their hives on or near your home – such as in your garden, underneath eaves, or on your deck – they can wreak havoc on you and your guests, especially if food, trash, or an abundance of other insects are nearby.

Although getting rid of wasps near your home may seem daunting at first, Lloyd Pest Control can help you humanely combat these territorial insects while avoiding painful stings, allowing you to enjoy your yard or patio this summer without the fear of wasp attacks!

Common Wasps in Southern California

There are thousands of wasp species across the United States, but the two most common types in southern California are yellow jackets and paper wasps.

Although these wasps can be a nuisance to humans, they are an important part of the ecological food chain, as they kill off agricultural and horticultural insects – such as spiders, caterpillars, ants, and flies.

Yellow Jackets

With thin waists and a yellow-black pattern that appears striped across their bodies, yellow jackets create nests that are constructed from chewed wood fibers and plant materials mixed with saliva. Their hives contain multiple layers of paper-like cells that can resemble the honeybee’s comb. Yellow jackets commonly build their nests near the soil or underground, but they can also create hives in hard-to-reach places like eaves, soffits, and inside window frames.

Larger than the European honeybee, yellow jackets are fast, aggressive, territorial, and food-motivated. Normally living near humans, these wasps are scavengers that love to munch on proteins and sweets; they will even go after foods or drinks that are in your hands!

Paper Wasps

Paper wasps are predominantly brownish-black with yellow to red markings along their head and abdomen. Sometimes known as “umbrella wasps,” paper wasps are slightly bigger than yellow jackets and create nests made from wood or bark that look like upside-down umbrellas.

Although paper wasps build their nests in similar areas to yellow jackets, they are much less aggressive and only defend their colony if they feel threatened.

Why Wasps Are Flocking to Your Fortress

Out in the wild, yellow jackets and paper wasps would normally make their nests in protected areas high up in trees or underneath shrubbery on the forest floor. With human homes in the mix, these wasps have a wide variety of sturdy places to choose from that satisfy their most basic hive requirements:

• Safety from Predators – From the top of a chimney to the underside of a bush, wasps can build their nests away from predators from just about any place around your home.
• Food Supplies – With things like unkempt trash cans, exposed sugary drinks, and protein-rich foods on your patio table, wasps can feast on human food without having to work too hard to find it. Even hummingbird feeders, nectar-rich flowers, and other insect hotspots – such as ant hills – can draw in wasps.
• Building Materials – Wasps can utilize rotting tree bark, old wooden fences, damaged siding, and common landscaping plants as materials to build their nests around your home.

Warding Off Wasps from Setting Up Camp

Properly keeping wasps from setting up camp around your home starts with establishing a wasp control prevention plan early in the year. Before spring hits, make sure to check your house, yard, and any surrounding structures for places that wasps could build nests.

Wasp-Proofing Your Home

After you give your home a once-over, it’s important to carry out routine wasp control maintenance on any nook or cranny that seems hive-worthy. Do your best to close off or block any areas that wasps could get into, fix and seal old fences or decks, replace damaged siding, and keep your grass and bushes trimmed neatly on a regular basis.

Landscaping Away from Common Areas

If you plan to landscape in the spring, make sure to keep hummingbird feeders and nectar-rich flowers to a minimum or place them away from common areas like your patio or deck.

Keeping Trash Secure & Cleaning Up Spills

Opt for trash cans with tight-fitting lids and always keep your trash bags tied securely when placing them inside the bin. When you host outdoor get-togethers that involve food and drink, make sure that any spills are cleaned up promptly and that all trash makes it into the proper receptacle. Any soda or bits of food left behind could attract wasps as they hunt for full bellies.

Ridding Your Yard from Other Insect Infestations

With insect infestations – such as houseflies, spiders, ants, or caterpillars – it’s critical to call your pest professionals as early as possible. An overabundance of any of these insects can draw the attention of wasps while they’re out foraging for food, making your yard primary nesting grounds for large wasp colonies.

The Dangers of DIY Wasp Nest Removal

When it comes to DIY wasp control, there isn’t a foolproof solution to ensure that the colony will completely pack up and leave your area. While you may find many DIY wasp remedies floating across the internet, most of them will do little more than put you, your family, or your pets in harm’s way.

If you have a wasp nest nearby your home, it’s best to understand what hive removal methods you should avoid to prevent painful stings, damage to your property, and wasps from coming back.

Water

Your first instinct may be to grab a nearby hose and start spraying, but flooding a hive is not a foolproof solution. When wasps are sprayed with water, they become agitated and can start attacking. Once an aggravated wasp homes in on a target – aka you – it releases chemical pheromones that call in the colony cavalry.

Unlike bees, wasps can sting multiple times, so making them angry by soaking them is not a good idea. Additionally, spraying a wasp hive doesn’t properly dismantle the structure, and the wasps will likely come back when it dries out.

Fire

Similar to water, using fire to eliminate a wasp nest is ineffective – not to mention it’s highly dangerous. Because most wasps’ nests are made from chewed-up wood pulp, they are extremely flammable. If you manage to get close enough to set fire to a hive, you could run the risk of the flames spreading, which could cause irreversible damage to both you and your property.

Additionally, hive fires don’t adequately stave off the entire colony, as many wasps will fly away unharmed once a flame starts to burn the thin, papery outer layer of the nest, emitting their pheromones while doing so.

Large Sticks

Attempting to destroy a wasp nest with a large stick, baseball bat, or any other pole-like object will likely put you right behind enemy lines. Being in such proximity to the colony, the likelihood of you being stung multiple times skyrockets. This DIY method of wasp nest removal is especially dangerous for those who are allergic to wasp stings, as anaphylactic shock could occur within minutes.

Hitting a wasp nest with any item will likely result in you being stung before any progress is made, so it’s best to avoid this method altogether.

Wasp Sprays

While wasp sprays may seem like a simple and effective way to get rid of a hive, they aren’t a complete, spray-away solution. Even if you manage to spray the nest and eliminate a portion of the colony, each worker wasp – regardless if they are dead or alive – will release pheromones that could linger in the area for weeks. These chemical scents could draw in more wasps or other insects to the empty hive, putting you right back at square one.

Much like bees, wasps play a vital role in our ecosystem, so killing them rather than doing your best to prevent them is counterintuitive to a thriving ecological community.

Professional Wasp Nest Removal with Lloyd Pest Control

Here at Lloyd Pest Control, our well-seasoned technicians are trained to handle wasp nest removal right at the source. While wearing a professional beekeeping suit, one of our team members will assess the hive and apply comprehensive treatments that will not only rid your home from these pests but will do so in the most humane way possible.

Afterward, we will thoroughly survey your land for potential areas that might be attracting wasps, providing you with effective wasp control treatment plans to ensure that other colonies won’t move in later down the road.

Let us help your Southern California summer soirees stay wasp-free this year. Contact us today for a free wasp removal quote.

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The Termite Treatments We Offer

At Lloyd Pest Control, we specialize in a variety of treatment methods to keep you 100 percent termite-free. These include:

Fumigation

You’ve undoubtedly driven by a home covered with what looks like a circus tent in the past. That’s fumigation, the tried-and-true method of drywood termite eradication – one that’s been handed down from company to company since the dawn of pest control. Our fumigation plan comes with the guarantee that we will rid your home of termites and continued termite damage.

After we tent your home or business, we’ll pump it full of Vikane gas (which is harmful to all creatures, including termites). You, your family, and your pets can’t be home, and you have to carefully seal all food from being affected by the materials. Yes, we know that that’s an inconvenience, but it’s also the most effective termite treatment for large structures, killing all termites living in them.

T3

Our T3 targeted treatment is an effective and economical method of treating small, isolated colonies. We begin with a thorough, comprehensive inspection. A pest management professional will visit the property to electronically determine the affected location. Our scanners detect even the faintest vibrations in your walls with extreme accuracy. They’re like stud finders, but for bugs.

After detecting the colony, we’ll either inject termiticide or replace the affected wood. The advantages of T3 treatments are that:

• You don’t have to leave the premises (unlike fumigation)
• You don’t have to seal up food products
• It’s not harmful to pets or humans

Heat Treatments

Lloyd Pest Control’s Thermal Pest Eradication is patented technology to eliminate termites and other pests from structures. We use specialized heat fans to maintain the core of the wood at 140-160 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour – a process that that no termite or egg can survive. We can also apply localized heat treatments to smaller areas.

Sentricon® Baiting

For subterranean termites, we place Sentricon® bait stations in soft soil, old tree stumps, irrigation sprinkler heads, and roof downspouts – anywhere subterranean termites like to hang out. These bait stations disrupt termites’ molting process, eliminating current infestations and preventing future ones by taking on colonies as a whole.

Drill and Trench Treatments

A trench dug around your home and filled with termiticide can be a useful method for subterranean termites. When they crawl through the solution, they transport the material back to their homes, eventually killing the entire colony.

Repairs

The last thing we want to do is come in, eradicate all pests, and leave like some callous bounty hunters. We’ve always believed in leaving a place in better shape than when we found it. We’ll replace fascia boards and rafter tails, which are common locations for termite damage.

Take Advantage of Our Termite Treatments

With our variety of termite treatments, we’ll defend your home against the wood-eating pest in the way that’s best for you. Our Termite Protection Plan is the strongest in the business, and we stand by our methods with an eradication guarantee. With Lloyd Pest Control by your side, we’ll take care of termites before they take control of your Southern California home.

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Do Argentine Ants Sting?

In Southern California, the Argentine ant is the most common species. These are the super small fellas that enter our homes in search of food and water. Fortunately for us, they don’t sting.

Argentine ants are, however, relentless killers to other insects. Their organization, overpowering numbers, and ability to displace their enemies are the reasons that odorous house ants – once the dominant ant of our region – have become the minority here. Argentine ants will attack bees, wasps, and even birds, and they won’t stop until their adversary has fled or is destroyed. The one good thing about these ants is they will sometimes attack termite colonies in your home.

Do Fire Ants Sting?

Although they’re nowhere near as common as the Argentine ants, we still have to watch out for fire ants in our region. These guys do sting, and the reaction that results can be fairly painful – so much so, it’s comparable to a bee sting. A fire ant sting will swell, forming a blister within 8-24 hours. This is normal, and can be treated with ice, elevation, and a topical antihistamine. If you experience a more severe allergic reaction, contact emergency medical help.

Fire ants live mostly in small, inland colonies, and can be identified by their reddish-brown color. They don’t create entrances on the tops of their mounds, but enter colonies through the side or underground tunnels. If you find an anthill, do not poke or prod it, because fire ants will attack to protect their home, and they run fast. Unlike bees, fire ants can sting more than once (an even bigger reason to leave them to ant control professionals).

Ant Control to Prevent Stings Once and for All

Don’t let the worry of ant stings stress you out – get them (specifically, fire ants) eliminated before they create concerns for you and your family. Trust in Lloyd Pest Control as your dependable ant control solution in Southern California. We’ll eliminate your ant colony in full, keeping any worry of stings at bay.

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