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Everything You Need to Know about Bees in Gilbert

Everything You Need to Know about Bees in Gilbert
Bees are amazing. They bring us luscious and beautiful flowers, tasty local honey as well as vegetables and fruits, and keep many aspects of nature running as it should be. In Arizona, it is at exactly this time of the year when flowers are at their full bloom, somewhere between February and April, depending on the weather, when bees make their full appearance known.

There are 2 main types of bees: non-social bees and social bees. Let’s break down what you can expect to see this bee season and how to react when you do see some bees.

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Removing a Beehive On Your Own

First off, NEVER, ever try to remove a beehive on your own. This is probably one of the worst things you can do. I can’t tell you how many “beehive removal fail” videos we’ve seen on Youtube where an Arizona resident tries to remove a beehive on their own.

There is simply no safe way to remove a beehive on your own that won’t result in more than a few stings, a potential trip to the hospital, and a spot on the news. If you’re lucky, no one gets seriously hurt.

Articles floating around Google, like the one below, showing you how to remove your own beehive DIY are horrible endorsements of a DIY pest removal option that can get you seriously injured.

If you have a beehive on your property, don’t wait to call in an expert. And I’m not talking about finding a Craigslist advertisement for someone who is unlicensed to come to your home. I can’t tell you how many calls we get from Arizona homeowners who have gone down this route, finding “cheap” beehive removal services, only to be completely let down when the bees return…

And if you don’t remove beehives correctly, they WILL return.

So, don’t do this:

Beehive removal sounds like a frightening prospect, but it doesn’t have to be. You do need to be aware of a few things and follow certain steps in order to have a successful beehive removal.

Note: These instructions are for destroying the beehive. However, because bees are an integral part of nature and food production, humane solutions should be considered before eliminating a colony. Many beekeepers and pest control companies will remove beehives for free, so check your local listings before pursuing this option.

Step 1 – Make Sure You Aren’t Allergic

Whether or not you have any other allergies, you may be allergic to bee stings. If you are allergic, the venom in a bee sting can cause serious problems such as swelling of the lips or throat, difficulty breathing, tightness of the throat, vomiting, diarrhea, lightheadedness, and passing out due to low blood pressure. For highly allergic individuals, this can be fatal. If you have experienced an allergic bee sting reaction, then beehive removal is best left to the professionals.

Step 2 – Protect Yourself

When attempting to perform a beehive removal, it’s important to wear appropriate clothing. Professional bee removers wear light-colored and smooth-textured clothing, and you should too. Bees are aggravated by dark-colors and rough clothing.

Look for a beekeeper’s veil and leather gloves for additional protection of your face and hands. A bee smoker can help calm bees and make them less likely to sting. Don’t wear any perfume, cologne, after-shave, or scented deodorant. The bees may confuse your scent with the scent of flowers.

Step 3 – Locate The Beehive

This sounds like a no-brainer, but often beehives are located in out of the way places like chimneys or in the walls. Also check out bird houses, pots, your attic, trash cans, and any open structure where bees can get in.

Honey bees that nest in your walls pose a health problem as well as a danger to the structure of your house. Beehives in the house can hold 20 to 80 pounds of honey. Honey can ruin walls and ceilings if not removed.

Chimneys are prime targets for bees seeking a new location for a hive. Scouting bees look for places to make their nest. If your chimney doesn’t have a protective screen, you may have a beehive inside. When completing a beehive removal, don’t make any sudden movement. Be sure to exercise extreme caution around any suspected beehives. If you see numerous bees flying around in your house, you know bees have nested. Immediate beehive removal is recommended.

Step 4 – Best Time To Perform Beehive Removal

Kill established bee colonies in late winter or early spring when the bee population in the hive is the smallest. You will also want to apply insecticide in the late afternoon. Again, this is when all the bees will be in the hive or nest. Bees sleep in the evening and early morning.

Step 5 – What To Use For Beehive Removal

In terms of chemicals, a good insecticide such as Sevin works. You will need repeated applications in order to kill all the bees inside the hive.

To remove a beehive located inside your walls, tap with a hammer and listen for the bees’ answering buzz. This is where the nest or hive is located. You’ll need to bore a hole (preferably through an outside wall) and apply the insecticide to the hive.

Step 6 – The Process

Once you’ve located the beehive, put on your protective clothing, beekeeper’s veil, and leather gloves. It’s time to remove your first beehive. Spray the insecticide on the beehive. Do this in the late afternoon or early morning as indicated above. Repeat the application several times in order to kill all the remaining bees in the hive. Remove and destroy the beehive to prevent foraging bees from neighboring colonies from moving in.

Dispose of the removed beehive by placing it in a plastic garbage bag you securely tie. Make sure all the bees inside are dead. Then place it in a trash disposal container (with a tight lid) and put out for trash pickup. After the beehive removal, clean the area thoroughly with soap and water. Plug all entrances where bees could gain an entry point. Seal all openings in walls. Install screens over vents and rain spouts. If you’ve bored a hole in an outside wall, seal it up and paint as necessary.

What to Do If You Have Bees in Your Home

Bees are a nuisance and they can create large difficult to remove hives in your Glendale, Arizona home or business. If you suspect that you have a beehive in your home, you should call pest control as soon as possible. In most cases you will not be able to safely or easily remove a hive on your own. A pest control company may also be able to preserve the hive and relocate it to protect the local bee population when appropriate.

What to Do If You Have Bees in Your Home

Take Pictures of the Insects

The first step is to identify what type of bee or insect you have. Take pictures of the bees and send them to your pest control company so that they can identify them. The company can also stop by your home to inspect them in person, but you need to identify what type of insects you have so that the proper removal technique can be used. Stinging insects like wasps will make nests out of wood fiber, while honeybees have nests with honeycomb made from beeswax. A local beekeeper may also be able to help you identify them.

 

Honeybees Can Be Difficult to Remove DIY

If you find that you have honeybees in your home, you should know that they can be very difficult to remove on your own. The hive can be located in your walls and some hives can be extensive. A pest control company can remove the hives safely and often do it a lot more quickly and efficiently than you would be able to on your own. Other insects like wasps and hornets can be difficult to remove as well, but they will often have smaller hives.

 

Call Magic Pest Control Right Away

Calling a Magic Pest Control in Glendale, Arizona will likely save you a lot of stress and time when dealing with your bee problem. The Magic Pest Control specialists will know how to thoroughly inspect your home and ensure that there are no hives that are overlooked, and they will remove the hive with safe methods. We will also be able to advise you on how to close openings and secure your home to avoid bees in the future.

Termites Are Most Active Right Now

Termite season is quite literally year round. If there is a time of year when termites in Arizona are least active, it could be said that it’s in the middle of winter when temperatures cause termites to seek deeper hiding areas. However, the moist air in wintertime also leads to damp, soft wood, which Arizona termites live for.

As our temperatures warm up and springtime bugs make their way, including bees and scorpions, termites are becoming more active. Termites can breed and invade your in complete silence, hiding in plain sight.

Termites feed off the soft wood that might be within your walls, around your windows and doors, collecting in your garage or backyard, or within your attic. Termites tend to slow down in the winter but become more active as temperatures rise, just like many other insects and animals of the desert.

Some of the most obvious signs to start looking for as Spring approaches are termite tubes and wood debris. When you’re doing your springtime planting or cleaning, look around the foundation of your home, your windows, and in the garage for termite tubes. They look like sticks of mud running vertical along the walls, trim or foundation.

If you think you might have termites, don’t wait and don’t’ try to get rid of them on your own. Arizona termites can potentially destroy your home, causing a great deal of damage in very little time. Call us as soon as you think you might have a termite problem.

A Chance to See Active Termites and How to Spot Them

A Chance to See Active Termites and How to Spot Them
Termites have been around for millions of years and for good reason.  Once they get started they can quickly grow to be a problem for your home.  Did you know that a primary queen can lay as much as 20,000-30,000 eggs per day. That is why it is important to get rid of the problem as soon as posible  In the time it takes to make the phone call, a hundred new eggs could be laid. Now that’s just the primary queen. There are often multiple queens. Furthermore, each queen lives for 45 years.

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Why Your Arizona Business Needs Pest Control

How Commercial Pest Control Can Benefit Your Business

If you have pests in your Phoenix, AZ business, you will want to call commercial pest control as quickly as possible to deal with whatever pests you have. When you are running a business your reputation is of the utmost priority, and by having pests you can lose customers and have other issues with your operation. Commercial pest control can get rid of your pests quickly and ensure that your business can resume options without a hitch.

 

Calling Commercial Pest Control Lets Your Deal With Your Business

You don’t want to waste time trying to handle a pest problem on your own. If you own a restaurant or retail location, pests can seriously affect your business. By calling commercial pest control you can focus on managing your business while we take care of the pests using the latest and most effective methods. This will protect your company’s reputation and ensure that the problem is dealt with quickly and efficiently.

Commercial Pest Control Can Eradicate the Problem Thoroughly

The other reason to call commercial pest control for your Phoenix, AZ business is the fact that they will be able to deal with the problem more thoroughly. A commercial pest control company has the equipment and tools to find out exactly where your pests are located and catch any other nests that you may have missed. It can be difficult to know exactly where the pests in your building are located, but a commercial pest control company like Magic Pest will be able to find all of them and eradicate the problem thoroughly.

Don’t Treat Commercial Pests the Same as Residential Pests

Residential pests can be handled with your own efforts in some cases, because you might have more time to deal with them. In your business, you often won’t have the time to try to eradicate pests on your own. You will also have to take time away from your other important priorities to try to deal with pests, and this will negatively affect your business. The best choice in the majority of circumstances is to call a Magic Pest Control as soon as you start having pest problems.

How To Keep Termites From Destroying Your Home

The professional word for these ravenous mash eaters is cryptobiotic: They’re so great at finding the stowaway, you may not know they’re there—but rather they are. The most widely recognized underground assortment settles in the clammy soil in each state spare Alaska. While termites might be useful in the woodland, where all that crunching dispatches dead stumps, when they move from the yard to your home, they can wipe you out. What’s more, think about what: Insurance doesn’t cover the harm. Here’s the way to abstain from transforming your greatest speculation into a creepy crawly gut work.

They’re subtle

Termites tiptoe through soggy mulch and soil, while winged ones fly amid swarming season—which is currently. Be that as it may, they settle outside of anyone’s ability to see. An invasion may not become visible until the point that you remodel or an auditor jabs around.

They overshare

Scavenging laborers leave the home looking for sustenance, frequently scored in a warm, moist place, similar to an inadequately vented slither space. They at that point return home to share the ingested products, utilizing an expertise known as “the common trade of gut substance”— net, yet accommodating in conveying poison through a state.

They have a desire for…

Foragers are attracted to rotting wood and plants, a few sorts more than others, and warmed up if conceivable—a board under a releasing high temp water pipe, say. They burrow through the delicate springwood, deserting the harder grain, making the present milder, quick developed wood a genuine termite treat. FYI: Several settlements can flourish in one house.

They eat relentlessly

Eating every minute of every day, they utilize dampness, sharp mandibles, and intestinal smaller scale living beings to hand cellulose over wood, plants, and even paper into sustenance.

They leave confirm

Giveaways incorporate light wood and thin mud tubes, which termites make with spit and bits of wood or drywall; on the off chance that you tear one open and see specialists, you have an issue. Swarmers shed their wings previously tunneling outside of anyone’s ability to see; in the event that you discover shed wings inside, bring in an ace.

They have complex social lives

A detailed standing framework doles out errands: rummaging; bolstering and preparing different termites; shoring up the settlement’s safeguards; and basically increasing. When swarmers discover succulent landscape and shed their wings, they begin reproducing to shape a subcolony or another one. It might take a long time to develop, and afterward it implies inconvenience.

Step by step instructions to Keep Them Out

Remove their nourishment and water

Store kindling no less than 20 feet from the house. Keep up a 6-to 12-inch line between mulch or soil and wood parts of the house; foliage ought to be no less than 3 feet away. Point garden sprinklers from the establishment, and direct downspouts far from the house.

Play it safe

Try not to bring home wood unless it’s been dealt with to kill termites—most new sheets have. Keep vents clear so dry air can flow. Freshen up upper rooms, cellars, and creep spaces consistently.

Go on edge

Fill or fix any passage focuses, from torn blazing to breaks in your storm cellar’s solid. Screen patios, fence posts, and ledge plates for indications of termite intrigue.

Let down your monitor? Contract an ace

Get three offers, check references, analyze fight designs, and read the fine print. Fluid termiticides work by entering the foragers’ stomach related frameworks and traveling through the state when nourishment is shared. It’s a monstrous business, however get genuine: This is your home, not theirs.

The Most Common Winter Pests

It might not feel like winter outside, but we’re still in the thick of the winter season. And while temperatures are rising above 80 degrees, winter pests are still invading your home getting ready for the warm weather and influx of food.

Some of the most common winter pests are mice, spiders, rats and scorpions.

Mice – A mouse can act like a contortionist, squeezing and bending their bodies to get into houses through openings as small as 1/4 of an inch. Once inside mice reproduce quickly, and before you know it – your house can be overrun with mice. Not only are they destructive to property, building nests and chewing on wood and furniture, but mice present a health hazard through their bites, urine, and feces.

Rats – Slightly larger than the common house mouse, rats are rodents that destroy property by chewing electrical wires and building nests in walls and under appliances and leave a trail of potentially hazardous excrement. Both mice and rats thrive in the many nooks and unused spaces a house offers for nesting.

Spiders – While spiders are often thought of as beneficial pests because they eat other household pests, most people don’t want to share their homes with a bunch of creepy, crawly spiders. One of the most unfortunate things about spiders is that they often enter homes while hunting other pests that have come before them.

Stink bugs – Another nuisance pest, stink bugs don’t transmit diseases to humans or pets, nor do they cause damage in homes. Still, they are unsightly, and like their name suggests, can cause quite a nasty odor in your home. Stink bugs will sometimes leave stains on curtains and walls and can invade your home in large numbers, which they do simply to survive the low temperatures.

So, how can you prevent winter pests from invading your home? First of all, get yourself a reliable pest control professional, like Magic Pest Control. A great relationship with an expert in pest control can make all the difference.

Secondly, get those pest control professionals out to your home once a month. Have our experts seal up your home to keep winter pests away. All cracks, holes and soft wood needs to be patched and replace. All carpeting that doesn’t attach needs to be placed down correctly. All ceiling fans that do not fully cover the hole needs to be repaired.

Thirdly, keep a mindful eye on the floors at night when scorpions roam, and during the day when spiders and cockroaches invade.

 

Businesses Need Pest Control

On the off chance that you claim an eatery, we don’t have to clarify the advantages of business bug control. Whenever cockroaches, rodents, flies, and different ailment spreading vermin torment an eatery, they accomplish more than frighten clients off, they can prompt fizzled wellbeing assessments and a conclusion of a business. In the event that you possess or deal with a store that has basic supplies, we don’t need to disclose to you how critical creepy crawly light traps are. You know they are the forefront protection against flies. In any case, bug control isn’t generally so self-evident. There are numerous unobtrusive ways a business can profit by continuous business bug control. Here are a couple of cases.

Client RETENTION

At the point when bothers show up, clients pay heed. There are numerous ways bugs can affect your clients. Some are as evident as the cases above. At the point when a cockroach keeps running over a table in a retail location, it will decrease the fulfillment of any client who sees it. At the point when bloodsuckers are found in a childcare, guardians will be brisk to take their kids out. However, some nuisance issues are unobtrusive. In the event that you have winged animals settling on your edges and leaving droppings on your property, it could be sufficient to push a few clients away.

Less BAD REVIEWS

We live during a time of moment audits. In the event that nuisances don’t push clients away, they can at present influence your business contrarily. What’s more, no business profits from awful audits.

Representative MORALE

Numerous entrepreneurs don’t understand the effect nuisances can have on the spirit. Regardless of whether you run a Mom and Pop store or deal with a bank, irritations can influence your main concern. At the point when representatives are upbeat, they work harder. What’s more, when they buckle down, they profit for the organization they work for.

LEED CERTIFICATION

In the event that your business is progressing in the direction of LEED accreditation, you’ll profit by enlisting a business bug control organization like Adam’s Pest Control that utilizations Integrated Pest Management and green vermin control choices.

Irritation FREE BREAK AREAS

Regardless of whether your business doesn’t deliver, transport, store, offer, or get ready nourishment, you can at present have issues with sickness spreading nuisances in your lunchroom. What’s more, that can prompt an expansion in worker non-attendance.

Each business ought to have a bug control design. Bugs and untamed life cause numerous unpretentious issues past the ones recorded in this article. In the event that you have inquiries regarding how bugs can influence your specific business, or you’d get a kick out of the chance to set up the benefit, contact a QualityPro-Certified business bother control organization like Adam’s Pest Control.

In case you’re in our Minnesota benefit territory, we anticipate noting any inquiries you may have, and to help you set up a custom irritation get ready for your particular needs.

Termites Remain Active in Winter

Termites are pretty active all year round, even in the middle of winter. OF course, the middle of winter in Arizona is not the same as winter in, let’s say New England. But, our Arizona termite season is neverending.

When temperatures drop, termites do move below ground even farther, which can just mean they are tougher to find and seek out. The warmth that termites seek is deeper into the dirt, so they dig down farther and farther, but never really disappear.

Here in Arizona, queen termites produce eggs at a steady rate year round. Because our winters are fairly mild, egg production doesn’t necessarily slow down. Which could mean that there are termites laying eggs right now far below your home, just waiting to be born and attack your home.

In colder temperatures, queen termites do, in fact, slow down their egg production. While they don’t hibernate, they do cease egg production during the coldest months of winter.

Finding termites in the winter time inside your home is possible. Subterranean and drywood termites that have found shelter and food in your home’s foundation and walls will not be as affected by cold outdoor temperatures.

It’s imperative that you have a termite pest control come out to your home to inspect for termites immediately, particularly if termites have been in your neighborhood in the past few months. Termites can wreak havoc on your home, causing hundreds and thousands of dollars in damage, including hotel stays while pest control companies treat your home.