Pest control in Hemet, CA

Hemet has a semi-arid climate with very hot, very dry summers and about 11.75 inches of rain a year, almost all in the winter months. Weatherspark's hot season here is June 16 to September 23, daily highs averaging above 89 degrees and August averaging 95, its cool season November 22 to March 16, and its wetter season November 23 to April 4, February wettest at 2.2 inches. UC IPM notes that Argentine ants trail indoors in hot dry weather and after rain, so the ant pushes come with the August heat and return after the February storms. With summers this dry, the only damp mulch and leaf litter for earwigs is the irrigated kind in the beds and lawns of the retirement communities and the golf course homes. Black widows multiply through the warm months in garages, under mobile home skirting and along block walls, while brown widows keep to the patio furniture, fences and eaves outside. Mosquitoes breed in standing water, and in this valley that means irrigation runoff, plant saucers and birdbaths. UC IPM places roof rats high in palms, trees and vines, and fences and utility lines carry them into attics.

Hemet fills about half of the San Jacinto Valley, 29.3 square miles of it, and shares the rest with San Jacinto to the north. The Santa Rosa Hills and the San Jacinto Mountains close the valley in, and apart from Diamond Valley Lake to the south it's dry land. The town exists because of water. In 1886 Mayberry, Judson and Potts bought 3,000 acres of the old Rancho San Jacinto, first granted to Jose Antonio Estudillo in 1842, and on January 27, 1887, they and William Whittier formed the Lake Hemet Company and the Hemet Land Company to dam the South Fork of the San Jacinto River up in the mountains and pipe the water down to the valley. The first train arrived in April 1888, the Great Hemet Dam went up to 122.5 feet between 1891 and 1895, and by 1893 there were 39 families buying water from the Lake Hemet Water Company. Residents voted to incorporate on January 11, 1910. The Ramona pageant has been staged in the hills above town since 1923 at the Ramona Bowl on Ramona Bowl Road, the Historic Hemet Theatre dates from 1921, and the Ryan School of Aeronautics trained about 6,000 fliers for the Army Air Force between 1940 and 1944 on the site that's now Hemet-Ryan Airport. In the early 1960s Sierra Dawn became the country's first mobile home subdivision where the individual lots were sold, and Hemet has been known as a retirement community ever since. The 2020 census counted 89,833 residents, 22.8 percent of them aged 65 or older.

That housing mix shapes our work here. Seven Hills and Four Seasons are both age-restricted communities, Seven Hills built around a golf course with 1,143 homes and Four Seasons at Hemet with 1,106 homes built between 2003 and 2011. Irrigated turf and planting in a valley this dry is what Argentine ants and earwigs look for, and UC IPM notes that earwigs shelter in damp mulch and leaf litter, which is exactly what a watered bed against a stucco wall provides. The mobile home parks and the Sierra Dawn lots have skirting and a gap underneath the home, which gives western black widows the kind of sheltered, undisturbed spot UC IPM describes for wood piles and clutter, and gives rats and mice a way under. The older streets around the Hemet Theatre and the North Harvard blocks where Whittier built his warehouse and opera house carry a century of wood, and drywood and subterranean termites are both present in Southern California. On the southeast edge, Simpson Park is 438 acres of wilderness in the Santa Rosa Hills at about 2,500 feet, and to the south Diamond Valley Lake, built between 1995 and 2000 to hold up to 810,000 acre-feet, sits inside the 14,000-acre Southwestern Riverside County Multi-Species Reserve that connects it to Lake Skinner. Homes along that much open ground have the palms, trees and fences roof rats use by UC IPM's account, the block walls and wood piles where black widows settle, and the patio furniture and eaves where brown widows do. East Hemet, which borders the city to the east, and Valle Vista are unincorporated communities next door with the same pests, and we serve both.

We serve San Jacinto too. Founded in 1870 and incorporated on April 20, 1888, it's one of the oldest cities in Riverside County, with 53,898 residents at the 2020 census, sitting at the north end of the valley with Hemet to its south and Beaumont to its north. Mt. San Jacinto College has been there since 1965, and the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians runs the Soboba Casino. San Jacinto's ZIPs are 92582 and 92583, and it gets about 12.2 inches of rain a year, so its pest calendar matches Hemet's. We cover both cities from 29990 Technology Dr Ste 13 in Murrieta. Jared Brown, who owns the company, has 27 years in the trade and has worked every position in it, and the technicians he sends out are licensed through the State of California. Pick monthly, every other month or quarterly visits on a plan, and each one includes the eaves brushed and the cobwebs cleared, with a return trip at no charge if something comes back in between. One Google reviewer, Violeta, mentions that she gets a text before we come out. Call (951) 535-4220 Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm and tell Jenni whether you're in Hemet, San Jacinto, East Hemet or Valle Vista.