When ants invade, call us. With many years experience in the Santa Rosa area, you can rely on us to eliminate the ant problem in one treatment — no expensive annual contract required.
Spiders
Termites
Termites are most troublesome in the Spring and Autumn. All termites have wings, all the time, not just during mating season. If they look like ordinary worker termites and everyone has wings, your best bet would be to call a specialty termite exterminator.
Bed Bugs
Please give us a call and speak to my daughter Jenni who can tell you about discounts for teachers and active military, and will schedule a visit by a technician. Check out this video of her husband, Jon, explaining the bedbug extermination process. Jon is a specialist in the abatement of crawling insects.
Fleas
The fleas on rats carry bubonic plague, typhus, toxoplasmosis and trichinosis as well as other less well known diseases. They live in social groups of up to 60 rodents. If water contaminated by Rat urine gets in unhealed breaks in the skin, it can cause Leptospirosis (Fort Bragg fever). Call Rats To Roaches to have them eliminated from your home.
Cockroaches
Anyone can bring a cockroach home from the store. They reproduce very quickly, so it is important to call us right away. Don’t spray pesticide on kitchen counters — someone is sure to make a sandwich there.
Silverfish
Over-the-counter sprays available at grocery and hardware stores are fast-acting repellents that will move the roaches from where you can see them to places where they are harder to find. Call us to get rid of ants, roaches, and silverfish effectively.
Bees
Honeybees are smaller, valuable bees that make honey and are becoming scarce. They are furry and tuck most of their legs under as they hover by flowers. Their flattened, hairy rear legs are good for pollinating. Don't bother them and they won't bother you because they die if they sting you. They can only sting once. In general, beneficial bees are fuzzy and stout-bodied.
Wasps
Wasps have a narrow waist and their legs dangle when they fly. Their bodies are smooth so they aren't good pollinators. Most build nests from paper or wood scraped from structures, but some build from mud. The nests, or hives, are often on a short stem, under eaves or on lawn furniture. The nests can resemble an open honeycomb or an umbrella. Wasps can sting repeatedly and will do so if their nest is threatened. If not eradicated, they can burrow through dry-wall for winter dryness and safety. Call us for fast, effective removal.
Crickets
Earwigs
Flies
Hornets
Have you discovered a nest and want it removed? Flying insects that you want eradicated? Bumblebees are big, round, furry, not aggressive, and valuable pollinators. They are interested in flower nectar, not you, so they can be ignored.
Yellow Jackets
Yellowjackets build nests above-ground in trees, shrubs, or in protected places like sheds. Yellowjacket hives resemble paper because they chew wood fiber into a paper-like pulp. Yellowjackets also nest in soil cavities like rodent burrows and tree stumps. If you see lots of flying insects emerging from a hole in the ground, they're probably yellow jackets. By late summer, a colony of thousands will aggressively defend their nests from homeowners. Take note of the location of the nest and call us. An underground hive can be removed in a single visit, no long-term contract required.
Indoors, pet food and other edibles should sealed in storage containers We are rodent experts and can locate their nests, entrances, and runways. Call us to find out how we can help get rid of vermin and rodents.
Mice
The Roof rat (Rattus rattus) accounts for nearly all the rodent pest activity in Sonoma County. Sometimes called a citrus rat, fruit rat, house rat or black rat, it is the one that chews on your house, mostly at night. It has to chew to keep its front teeth trimmed. It chews on everything, but the roof rat’s favorite foods are grain and fruit. They will feast on fallen fruit and ivy in your yard, then scamper back along fences and utility lines into your house. They will chew in your kitchen, then snooze all day above the ceiling because they like warmth. They are good climbers and they tend to flee upwards and range in color from light brown to black.
Rats
I spoke with Steve Gustafson, the owner of the company, and worked mainly with his son-in-law, John, the next owner of the company. John was very thorough and informative about how the rats got in and what I needed to do to prevent subsequent infestations.