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21803 Cactus Ave, Suite E
Riverside, CA 92518
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At Corky’s Pest Control, we bring specialized training and years of experience to gopher control in the Riverside area. Our proven approach targets gophers at the source, helping ensure long-term protection for your property.
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Gophers might look cute, though only from afar. If you’re struggling with a gopher infestation, there’s nothing appealing about what they’re doing to your property. Even just a few gophers can decimate your lawn, garden, and home. Trust our team to find the root cause of the issue and do whatever it takes to help you reclaim your space.
How Did Gophers Get Here?
If your yard provides an ample gopher food source, like a garden, that’s reason enough for them to invade and start creating their network of tunnels. But you don’t have to have a wellspring of produce for gophers to become a problem, either; they also love soft grasses and even flower bulbs. Generally speaking, they’ll gladly munch on most things as long as there’s enough to go around for their food and shelter needs.
Moisture is also very attractive to gophers. Moist soil makes digging easier for them, so they’re more inclined to search it out. Loose and sandy soils are also common gopher targets for similar reasons. Their digging will not only make your yard look like a mess, but some gophers will dig deep enough that they impact things like sprinkler lines, making a bad problem that much worse.
Whatever the reason for their arrival, it won’t be as easy to get them to leave and allow you to take back your backyard. You need a professional gopher exterminator — like one from Corky’s Pest Control — to get rid of them.
Why Hire Professionals for Gopher Control Services?
Gophers are notoriously hard to pin down. They’re fast and have lots of ways to escape, given their intricate underground tunnel systems, and they’ll simply pop up again whenever they’re ready to wreak more havoc.
Thankfully, with Corky’s Pest Control on the scene, you’re in good hands with experts who understand gopher behavior. We can combine our knowledge about these critters with the tools at our disposal to eliminate gophers from your property.
You can also expect the following:
- Access to specialized equipment designed for gopher control
- Fast, effective, and humane animal control with minimal damage to your yard
- A commitment to excellence and service at every step
- Preventive care and post-treatment follow-up services
Our Approach to Gopher Control in Riverside
There are many ways to approach a gopher problem, but we’re only interested in one: the one that makes sense for your property. To that end, our team devises custom-tailored pest control plans for every service visit, so you can expect the best possible results.
Here are a few examples of what a Corky’s Pest Control gopher exterminator might employ:
Trapping
Traps make for one of the most effective ways to remove gophers from your yard. Our experts will locate their tunnels, set the traps, and lie in wait for the critters to emerge. Once we’ve got them all, we’ll apply a topical repellent to the area to dissuade them from coming back.
Baiting
Baiting techniques often work well alongside traps. The bait will draw the gophers from their hiding spots and directly into the hands of the well-placed trap. There are poisonous baits that will take the gophers out for good, as well as humane baiting options that are solely meant to get them to fall into one of our traps.
Exclusion Methods
Exclusion is best done for prevention, as it involves adding specific fencing or “gopher baskets” to protect plants from gopher attacks. Still, it can also cause gophers already on your property to look elsewhere for food, seeing as they’ll be unable to access it.
Carbon Monoxide
For larger infestations (or in situations where trapping isn’t enough), it may be best to resort to fumigation. It’s an incredibly effective way to eliminate gophers from your yard, though we generally only recommend it for gopher problems that have spiraled out of control.
Castor Oil
Castor oil is a natural, non-toxic gopher repellent. These critters have a strong sense of taste and smell, and castor oil doesn’t appeal to either. While it’s rarely enough to get rid of a gopher colony by itself, castor oil is still handy for managing populations and preventing gophers from returning after we remove them.
Preventive Measures
With the gophers gone, we can focus on making sure they don’t come back. A Corky’s Pest Control expert might recommend various gopher prevention avenues. Other natural deterrents, like peppermint oil, or even simply planting plants gophers are known not to like, are excellent ways to keep them at bay without it being detrimental to your yard.
Custom Gopher Control Services Catered to You
No two gopher infestations look the same, and that’s ultimately because what you supply to the gophers — food, shelter, a predator-free zone, and so on — will be different from what another customer of ours does.
It’s our job to determine what gophers like about your yard, in particular, and find ways to deter them from making a home here. We’ll often combine our treatments, starting with trapping and baiting to get rid of any that have already taken up residence, and finishing with preventive treatments.
Proactively Averting a New Infestation
We’re experts at gopher and rodent removal, but the best way to ensure you don’t have another infestation is by having a hand in deterrence. Our team recommends homeowners keep up with these landscaping tasks to protect their homes:
- Improve your soil’s drainage to keep it from getting too moist
- Keep your garden well-maintained, clean, and weed-free
- Avoid planting anything gophers might like without deterrents in place
- Use physical barriers to keep them away from your plants
- Call for gopher control if you start seeing signs of them again
Contact Corky’s Pest Control Today: We’ll Take Care of Your Gopher Problem
Gophers don’t just go away, but with our gopher control services, we’re the Riverside pest control team to call to send them packing. Reach us at (800) 901-1102 to schedule an appointment with a gopher control specialist today. It’s time to take back your landscaping, and Corky’s is here to help.