Winter sometimes lingers, and the cold nights hold back the spring, but spring is coming. The weather will turn and start to warm up. When the winter cold breaks the bugs will re-emerge. The bugs are bidding their time and waiting for the moment when they will be all over your yard again. This is where your Ongoing Preventative Pest Control service from PacWest Exterminators steps in to protect you.
During the next couple of months, we are laying down an aggressive treatment in the areas where bugs normally emerge and begin their annual journey to your home. We use a product that will hide itself but kill them quickly. This treatment will be in place as they emerge from winter and try to increase in numbers. This is our ultimate preventative treatment that makes your summer and spring better.
Wasps and Spiders Awake
Often, in early spring, wasps begin to awake from their overwintering process and rebuild their nests. This process can start in your eaves and leads to trouble in the yard during summer. If these starter nests are taken care of now, then we don’t have to worry about them bothering you later in the year.
Very soon young spiderlings will be hatching from their eggs. They will go to a high point and catch a breeze. Using the prevailing winds, they will spread across the neighborhood landing anywhere the wind takes them. This is often a spot in your eaves that leads to your attic. They can also land on your house’s walls, make their way to your windows or doors, and find a way inside.
For these reasons you’ll find us looking up a lot here at the end of winter and the beginning of spring. We treat in the eaves and around windows and doors to lay down a barrier to protect you from spiders and wasps. We search out the wasp nests and hit them with a chemical that will kill the returning insects. During this service, we leave things in place to get a good kill, but during our next service, we will knock them down.
Insect Harborage
Most bugs in your yard breed or invade your planters, around bushes and trees, or at the edge of your property. This is also where they generally choose to lay their eggs and overwinter. These eggs stay viable through the cold winter months and hatch as the weather warms up or certain conditions are met. This is how bugs survive even harsh or cold winters from year to year. They are safe in their egg sacs, and they emerge into your garden.
This is why pest control, especially in temperate southern California, is a year-round service. Our weather varies and these trigger conditions can occur anytime throughout the year. Furthermore, it is a very short period when bugs aren’t enjoying the weather they prefer here. During this short period, PacWest Exterminators aggressively attacks the areas bugs breed and emerge from.
In our pre-spring treatment, as well as looking up, we look down. We look for all the potential breeding sites of crickets, earwigs, and fleas. We attack those sites with targeted spot treatments around your lot. You’ll see your technician looking around and laying down your chemical preventative in your planters and lawn areas. When the bugs emerge then they emerge right into your protective barrier, and they don’t start their annual cycle on your property. This doesn’t stop them completely, but it sure slows them down a lot.
Ounce of Prevention
We keep track of the science and the seasons so you can have peace of mind. We plan each treatment for maximum effective control of insects around your property. We know when and where the bugs emerge so we can prevent them. Doing a preventive treatment now makes controlling bugs easier all year long. This treatment also reduces our need to use large amounts of chemicals later in the year to respond to a large outbreak thereby limiting our impact on the environment. In all these ways, PacWest Exterminators keeps you free from pests entering your home and bothering you in your backyard.
PacWest Guarantee
We want to remind you if you are under a service contract with us and are having a problem with covered insects inside your home then please call us so we can come and treat the problem for you right away.
If you partner with PacWest Exterminators then we can control your insect problems all year long. You will never have to worry about waking up to that dreaded invasion in your living room, kitchen, or bathroom again!