Pest control in Wildomar, CA

In Weatherspark's words, Wildomar's summers are arid, clear and warm, and the winters long, cold and partly cloudy. Weatherspark's hot season here is June 26 to September 25, when average daily highs stay above 82 degrees, and August averages 86 by day and 61 at night. From November 24 to March 23 it's the cool season, with December averaging a low of 42, and the wet months run November 19 to April 7 with February the rainiest at 2.7 inches. UC IPM notes that Argentine ants come inside for refuge from dry, hot weather or flooded conditions, so the two ant pushes land in August and after the first storms, and that earwigs move indoors when it's too hot, too dry or too cold outside, which makes the watered beds against the house the place earwig numbers build. Through the warm months the black widows fill the garages and the wood piles and the brown widows the patio furniture, fences and eaves. Mosquitoes follow the standing water left by saucers, birdbaths, blocked gutters and irrigation, and the roof rats nest in the sycamores along Murrieta Creek in every season.

Wildomar took its name from three people. William Collier, Donald Graham and Margaret Collier Graham founded the town, and the name is a blend of theirs. Franklin Heald, Collier and Graham bought the 12,832-acre Rancho La Laguna in 1883, the townsite map was recorded in 1886, and the town grew up on the California Southern Railroad, which had reached Colton in 1882. Rail service ended in 1935, the town went quiet, and the freeway brought it back: construction of Interstate 15 in the early 1980s renewed growth, and Wildomar became a city on July 1, 2008. It had 36,875 residents at the 2020 census across 23.70 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 1,270 feet, and it borders Lake Elsinore, Menifee and Murrieta. Interstate 15 cuts the city in two. City Hall is on Clinton Keith Road, the library opened in 2001 as the Mission Trail Library, and the city's largest park is the 9-acre Marna O'Brien Park on Palomar Street, with Windsong Park on Prairie Road, Regency Heritage Park on Autumn Oaks Place with its dog park, and Malaga Park on Mission Trail, the newest, which greets you coming in from Lake Elsinore with a view of the Cleveland National Forest mountains. Wildomar was once known for honey. The hills are covered with coastal sage scrub and chaparral, California sycamores grow along the riverbeds, and Murrieta Creek, 13 miles long, flows through Wildomar, Murrieta and Temecula before it meets Temecula Creek to form the Santa Margarita River. To the north the Sedco Hills, the southern end of the Temescal Mountains, rise to 2,432 feet at Wildomar Peak above Bundy Canyon, and the Sedco Hills community voted alongside Wildomar for cityhood in 2008. Riverside County's park district manages the Iodine Springs Reserve. Put together, that's tract homes along the freeway with block walls, irrigated yards and bark mulch, chaparral hills and a sycamore-lined creek within reach of every back fence.

Our office at 29990 Technology Dr Ste 13 is in Murrieta, and Murrieta borders Wildomar, so this is the city next door to us. The company belongs to Jared Brown, 27 years in pest control, and each technician on the team is licensed through the State of California. The city's geography shapes how our four biggest pests, spiders, ants, rats and termites, show up here. UC IPM notes that roof rats nest above ground in shrubs, trees and dense vegetation, favour attics indoors and run along fence tops and overhead utility lines at night, which is what the sycamores along Murrieta Creek and the sage scrub and chaparral on the hills provide. UC IPM finds black widows in garages and along rock walls, and brown widows, now well established across Southern California, tucked under plastic patio furniture. Argentine ants, one linked supercolony with many queens in UC IPM's description, head indoors for refuge in hot dry spells and after flooding, and the irrigated beds with fresh mulch against the stucco in the newer tracts are where UC IPM says earwigs shelter by day. Drywood and subterranean termites are both present in Southern California. Tyler Williams does the termite inspections here, and Dylan Reed takes the termite treatment and the rat trapping.

Whether you're on the freeway side or up toward the Sedco Hills, the technician treats what you called about, brushes down the eaves and cobwebs, and gives you the time kids and pets need to stay off the treated areas, because each product label sets its own. You can book monthly, every other month or quarterly, each a 12-month agreement, and if the pests come back in between, so do we, at no charge. The seasons decide which pests show up when. In the August heat ant trails reach the kitchen, black widows crowd the garages and wasps build under eaves and patio covers, and the first winter storms push the ants indoors again and bring the earwigs out of the soaked mulch. Roof rats work the fence lines all year. Mosquitoes breed in standing water, and UC IPM lists bird baths, flower pot saucers, unused garden pots and gutters blocked with leaves as the usual sources, so start with what's sitting in your own yard, then ask about adding mosquito treatment to your Quarterly plan. Call (951) 535-4220, Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm, and tell Jenni Lara whether you're on the freeway side, up toward the Sedco Hills or out along Bundy Canyon.