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Snails and Slugs: Slow, But Sure to Ruin Your Garden!
Snails and Slugs, may be slow but the damage they do to ornamental plants, vegetable gardens and citrus orchards is devastating and costly. These gastropods, have eaten and slimed their way into the top 5 most unwanted pests in the garden. Typically you will find...
Who’s Been Digging in My Yard? – Signs of Gophers
When you find holes, mounds of dirt or torn up turf, in your beautiful landscape, you've been visited by “wildlife” on the hunt for food and/or a place to live. You can identify your trespasser, most often, by the damage they leave behind. So the best qestion is,...
Fumigation Isn’t a Circus, but a “Tent” Is Involved!
Fumigation is a treatment used to exterminate Drywood Termites. ...
Beware! Rats are Dirty and Leave Toxic Chaos Behind.
Rats and even mice can create a ton of damage and a dangerous amount of contamination in a very short time. Cleaning up after them can be a “big” job and a hazardous one to boot. The messes they make are “TOXIC”! Rats and mice are constantly urinating and...
A Tale of Two Rats and a Mouse.
A rat is a rat but not a mouse or a mole or a shrew! But they are all rodents. The two most prolific rats that we, in Southern California, deal with, in our urban settings, are the Roof/Tree or Black rat , which inhabits mostly suburban communities, and the...
Where Did These Rats Come From and Why My House?
Rats are everywhere! That is, everywhere humans are.Rats can be traced first, from Asia where they then spread throughout Europe along trade routes. Then they were brought to the Americas by ships transporting people and supplies, to the new world.In California, two...
Where Did These Gophers Come From and Why My Yard?
The most asked questions about gophers are; (1.) Why my yard and (2. )where did they suddenly come from? Who Gophers Chose Your Property Gophers migrate from neighboring properties where populations have gotten out of control, or where food sources have become...
A Frankenstein Bug – Just in time for Halloween!
Scientists have recently discovered a mysterious, 100-million-year-old insect trapped in amber — and as far as anyone knows, it is unlike any other insect that has ever lived on Earth. This strangely pieced together bug, looks like a composite of several different...
Gophers Survive Exploding Volcanoes!
Well, we have it from the experts that even a volcanic eruption can’t discourage gophers from their daily tasks of digging holes and burrow systems and eating whatever vegetation they fancy. The May 8th, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens ripped the top off the...