Ant management requires diligent efforts and the combined use of mechanical, cultural, sanitation, and often chemical methods of control. It is unrealistic and impractical to attempt to totally eliminate ants from an outdoor area. Contacting a professional can reduce your exhausting efforts to maintain an ant-free environment.
Spiders
Why do so many home owners spend so much time controlling pests on their own? Traveling back and forth to the hardware store and buying products that may or may not be effective, can be expensive and time consuming. Pests are continually trying to find ways into our homes and businesses because of food, shelter and safe harborage found inside and outside structures. For this reason, professional pest control is a better choice.Take the guess work out of pest control and hire experts who can identify your particular problem and eliminate or prevent an infestation. Here is what you can expect with Yosemite Pest Control’s standard pest service. We will start by sweeping down the webs around your eves, windows, foundation, and fence line. In addition to making your home or business look nice, sweeping down the webs will help prevent those spiders from getting inside. Your property’s exterior will be inspected each time to identify problem areas and potential risk. Then your property will be thoroughly treated to control insect populations.
Termites
Even the very best stand-alone treatments are not 100% effective under all circumstances and over time. This is why it is common practice in the industry to require a thorough inspection of your home at least once per year in order to maintain the guaranty. That, however, is not always enough, since termites can cause a lot of damage in 12 months. Instead, we install our colony bait station system with every treatment. The bait stations are inspected every three months, and if termites are present, a bait is applied and the stations are checked monthly until the activity stops. This dual level of protection greatly reduces the risk of re-infestation in the years following the primary treatment. Termites are relentless, constantly seeking to penetrate into any wood source. With the our dual treatment, you can rest assured as hard as the termites are working to come in, we are working even harder to keep them out.
Bed Bugs
If you’ve tuned in to the news just once over the past year, you’ve heard about the bed bug infestation in our Nation’s hotels. Just the name can bring chills down your spine. When you were a child, did your parents say “Good night, don’t let the bed bugs bite”? And they expected us to sleep? But what are bed bugs? Bed bugs are small, oval, non-flying insects that belong to the insect family
Fleas
Adult fleas are no larger than 1/8 inch long, so it is difficult to see a number of the characteristics used to describe them. These reddish-brown, wingless insects host on animals and can live for more than 30 days.
Cockroaches
If you think that cockroaches only inhabit filthy homes, you are sadly mistaken. These highly-resistant creatures have been around for more than 300 million years, long before humans. Once humans inhabited the planet, roaches knew they had a dependable food source. Since then, roaches have followed humans where ever they have expanded and now the urban jungle is their natural habitat. In all honesty, not even the cleanest house is immune.
Bees
Ticks
Lyme disease is a potentially serious disease, and can be localized or affect multiple bodily systems. This disease is transmitted to humans and other animals by the feeding activities of certain ticks. Of the 47 tick species established in California, 6 species attach to humans with any regularity, but only the western black-legged tick, is thought to be responsible for transmitting the spirochete to people. Yosemite Pest Control can help your family stay tick-free.
Beetles
Formulated with a concern for the environment, Bora-Care is used for the interior and exterior control of subterranean termites, drywood termites, Formosan termites, wood destroying beetles and decay fungi. Perfect for termite remedial and pretreatments, Bora-Care eliminates the wood as a food source for pests. More than ten years of efficacy studies prove wood destroying organisms cannot develop resistance against Bora-Care. Bora-Care is accepted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a primary tool against termites in new home construction. It's specifically listed by the International Building Codes as a suitable alternative to soil treatments.
Aphids
When numerous ants are found on plants, they are probably attracted to the sweet honeydew deposited on the plants by honeydew-producing insects such as aphids or soft scales. Ants may also be attracted up into trees or shrubs by ripening or rotten sweet fruit or floral nectar. Yosemite Pest Control’s professionals can treat your outdoor plants and protect them from ant damage.There are more than 12,000 species of ants throughout the world. In California, there are about 200 species, but fewer than a dozen are destructive pests.
Snails
It is not easy to maintain your yard and garden on your own. From weeds to pests (gophers, aphids, snails and more), it can be a full-time job to keep your yard healthy and grow your garden. That’s why it’s smart to hire a professional. The Yosemite Pest Control team has the knowledge and equipment to keep the pests out of your lawn and garden...for good.
Yosemite Pest Control has several eco, child and pet-friendly methods that will help with rodent exclusion and eliminate access points of structure, including...
Mice
Nothing is worse than walking into your kitchen and staring eye-to-eye with a rat or a mouse. Rats and mice cause huge food loss worldwide every year. Rodents invade your home or business, with the risk of spreading more than 35 serious diseases, including Hantavirus. Rodents will gnaw through many types of materials, including lead sheathing, cinder block, aluminum siding and some concrete, in order to reach a location. Besides depleting food storage, they spoil it by contamination with their feces, urine, or fur. Rats and mice also cause costly damage to our buildings with their burrowing and gnawing activity. They are able to squeeze through very small openings:1/4 inch for mice and 1/2 inch for rats, so prevention is difficult.
Rats
Not only can rodents be found in our homes, but they also live in supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, food processing facilities, livestock facilities, farms and fields; anywhere that has food. Rodents reproduce rapidly with major activity at night. Rats tend to be cautious and mice are more curious. Rats tend to eat most of their food at one time, where mice will nibble a little at a time. It is important to remove rodents food sources, but do not disturb the rodent habitat. You will want a complete rodent elimination to occur before they could move to another area. A successful rodent control program includes a combination of baiting and trapping for the highest rate of success.
Gophers
It is imperative to begin a construction project without a serious pest problem. Whether you're building on old farmland that can be inhabited by ants, or you're building in a rural environment that is inhabited by gophers and other wild animals, it's important to begin your project pest free. Call the experts at Yosemite Pest Control to evaluate your pest situation before the foundation goes up.