Pest Control in Encinitas

Encinitas, CA – A beautiful beach community and tourist attraction, Encinitas has a lot to offer visitors and residents alike.

Situated along the coast, in North San Diego County, the City of Encinitas is comprised of five different communities: Old Encinitas, New Encinitas, Olivenhain, Leucadia, and Cardiff-by-the-Sea. Each with their own special uniqueness.

Beach at Encinitas, CA

Enjoying the beach in Encinitas, CA

To the south of Encinitas is the San Elijo Lagoon and to the north is the Batiquitos Lagoon. Some of the pest issues for this coastal city are: flies, rats, mice, ants, and spiders galore.

Here are some of the services Hearts Pest Management provides for Encinitas residential and business customers:

General Pest Control - ants, spiders, earwigs, outdoor fleas, and Oriental roaches.

Green and Organic Pest Management for residential and landscape.

Rat and Mice Control - rodent trapping and baiting, attic clean-out and exclusion.

Bird Control - single story nest removal, clean-up and prevention.

Wasps and Bees - removal and honeycomb cleanup.

Commercial Pest Management - restaurants, hotels, retirement centers, churches,
schools, industrial facilities, and medical centers.

Roach Control - Oriental roaches (water bugs), kitchen infestations of American
and German roaches.

Landscape Pest Management - aphids, whitefly, grubs, snails, fungus, flies, gnats, and mosquitoes.

Fleas - inside and outdoor flea treatments.

Gopher and Squirrel Treatment - Hearts can save landscapes and plants from damage by gophers and squirrels.

Squirrel

Squirrels can become pests when it comes to damaging the landscape.

Hearts Pest Management services Encinitas customers in a timely manner, while taking care to protect the environment.

Hearts Pest Management practices IPM solutions for Encinitas customers.

Our Service Professionals are EcoWise Certified for Organic Pest Management Services and Licensed in both Structural and Landscape Pest Control.

We are an Environmentally Conscientious Company

Hearts understands Encinitas customer concern for the environment and practices implementing IPM (Integrated Pest Management) solutions for pest control.
Our Service Representatives take the time to determine a customer's needs and customize their own treatment plan to keep pests at bay and from entering the home.

EcoWise Certified logo Green Pest Management

EcoWise Certified Green Pest Management

Meet Dave - Your Encinitas Service Representative

Dave is a supervising Field Service Representative with many years of experience in pest control.
Before Hearts Pest Management had the pleasure of hiring Dave, he owned his own business in Arizona
Dave is an expert on all manner of pests and will help keep your property looking good and pest-free.

David Cole - Hearts Pest Management Field Representative and Supervisor

David Cole - Hearts Pest Management Field Representative and Supervisor

Spider Control in Encinitas, CA

In coastal towns such as Encinitas, spiders can travel from house to house and other areas of the city with a behavior called "ballooning.”

Many residents wonder why they have so many spiders and spider webs all around their home. This "ballooning" behavior is typical of coastal areas because of the continuous air currents from ocean breezes

Western-spotted Orb-weaver Spider

Western-spotted Orb-weaver - Orb-weaver spiders are beneficial in gardens; they catch flies and other garden pests inside their intricate webs.

After spending a short time with their mothers, young spiderlings will set out on their own into new territory by using the ballooning method.
On warm days when there’s a breeze in the air, the spiders climb to high points of a fence, roof, or even plants, and stick their abdomens up in the air to release a small amount of silk.

If the air current is stronger than the weight of the spider, the spiderling becomes airborne and is carried away, sometimes for miles.
Ballooning spiders have been found as high as 10,000 ft. and on ships, 200 miles offshore!

Spiders of Medical Importance in Encinitas

The Black Widow: Female black widows have shiny, black, bulbous bodies with a red spot shaped like an hourglass underneath their abdomens.

widows are found throughout the United States but predominately in the southern and western states. The bite of a female black widow is dangerous and full of toxic venom poisonous to humans.

For black widow infestations, Hearts Pest Service Professionals are experts at finding and treating the spider's hiding places.

black widow spider

Female Black Widow - note the red hourglass.

Female Brown Widow with Egg Sac

Brown widows with "spiky" egg sac like to hide under patio furniture.

The brown widow: A female brown widow spider is similar to the black widow but less dangerous and a little smaller in size. She has a pattern of brown and tan stripes; and instead of a red hourglass on her underbelly, it's orange in color.

Another way brown widows can be identified is by their spiky, cream-colored egg sacs. Both brown and black widow spiders make messy webs called theridiid webs – sticky, tangled cobwebs in which to catch their prey.

Widow spiders prefer making webs and laying their egg sacs in undisturbed areas; sheds, garages, wood and rock piles, under patio furniture, eaves, and other outdoor structures. Indoors, they hide in cluttered areas like garages, in and behind boxes, in corners of rooms, and in closets.

Here are some precautions you can take to protect yourself when cleaning and doing yard work:

When working in a garage or storage area, wear long-sleeved shirts, gloves and even a hat. Avoid sandals and wear boots or tennis shoes.

Cleaning out woodpiles, handling lumber or moving rocks in the landscape should be done wearing gloves, long-sleeved shirts, and boots.

When black and brown widows find their way indoors, it's usually because you have lots of insects around - a widow's food source. Call you Hearts Representative, we can treat inside and out organically or with traditional methods, depending on your preference.

Ant Control in Encinitas

Lucky Southern Californians are sitting on one big Argentine ant hill! During spring and summer, ants start marching into homes, not one by one but colony by colony! These ants continue into fall and winter preferring to come indoors when it gets wet outside from the rains.

Residents get frustrated in trying different home remedies but atlas, they do not work with these invaders from Argentina. The Argentine ant has become the most problematic ant species for Californians - and is the hardest to control. Do-it-yourself methods don't work for a couple of reasons:

a. Because Argentine ants can move their colonies within just hours, either to escape when they know your coming with the spray bottle or to take advantage of a new food source.

b. This particular species has more than one queen, which means breaking off from the one colony and easily starting another (most ants species have only one queen).

Argentine ant and aphid

Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile) tending an aphid.

outdoor ant nest

Argentine Ant Nest.

Did you know that ants spread diseases such as salmonella and staph? They can spread these diseases throughout your home as they come indoors, crawling across the kitchen counters in search of food and water!

The most effective pest control and permanent solution is to find and treat the Argentine ant nest. Queen Argentine ants must be eliminated to properly eradicate a colony.

Hearts Service Professionals are experts at identifying this ant species and finding their colonies, in and around your property.

Landscape Pest Control in Encinitas

Aphids are often green in color, depending on the species, with long slender mouth parts that they use to pierce and then suck out fluids from tender parts of plants, usually the leaves.

Large populations of aphids will cause leaves to discolor, turning them yellow.
The honeydew an aphid emits from its rear is a sticky substance that can cause a black, sooty-looking fungus to grow on leaves and stems of plants.

Leaf with aphids and whiteflies

Aphids and whiteflies damage leaves of trees and shrubs.

Besides damage to plants, aphids are a two-fold type of pest because the more aphids you have, the more ants come around in search of the sweet honeydew aphids provide.
In exchange for the honeydew, aphids are protected by the ants and are actually "herded" into safe areas.

This ant behavior is called "farming" and gives an ant colony a stable food source. If you treat for aphids, you´ll have fewer ants.

Snail

Snails are year round pests for many Encinitas Residents.

Hearts provides landscape inspections free-of-charge and will keep your plants and trees looking healthy and pest-free.
Hearts can help keep snails at bay and from ruining your plants.

We take especial care when treating landscapes with KOI fish ponds and recommend our Greenthumb program.

Deer mouse

Mice are able to enter the home by squeezing through holes a little over ¼ of an inch.

Rats and Mice in Encinitas

Mice are able to thrive under a variety of conditions.

In nature, mice live in open fields but as houses are being built, less open land is available to them.
tend to find their way into our homes seeking easy access to food and water as well as shelter from the cold

Oh Roof Rats!

Roof Rats are notorious for using tree branches as a means to cross over onto your roof and into your home; especially during winter months when they start searching for warm, comfy places to make their nests.

Along with bringing their family members to partake of the kitchen pantry, rats and mice carry diseases that can be transmitted to humans.

Roof Rats Climbing down a wire or rope, one after another.

Roof rats are very common and great climbers.

Rats can be one of the most troublesome of rodents, especially when they decide to set up camp in your attic
They scurry across the attic floor or crawl space, creating pitter-patter noises with their tiny feet, waking you up at three in the morning. Then they decide to visit the kitchen where they eat and contaminate your food.

roof rats are in your attic, they destroy the insulation by urinating on it; breathing in the contaminated insulation and feces through air vents can also transmit disease.
Rats usually start creating their nest in the winter and then breed throughout the year.

house with sub-area

Many of the homes in Encinitas are older and have lots of cracks and crannies where rodents can enter.

Damage in attic by roof rats

Damage to the attic floor and insulation by roof rats; breathing in feces and urine through vents is very unhealthy for humans.

Roof rats can produce up to 6 litters a year and anywhere from 6 to 10 babies in each litter and within a given area, the roof rats social group is as many as 60 members!
If you think you have rats, its important to begin treatment right away to avoid an infestation and damage to your home and health!

Hearts provides free inspections for rats and mice. We can block off any entrances into your home and will clean-up any damage.

Hearts Pest Management Staff

Hearts Pest Management Staff

To schedule a service and/or a free inspection, please call today for a caring Hearts Pest Service Representative at

1-800-986-1006

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