Strike 3 offers convenient pest control solutions to fit your home’s unique needs. Our residential services include treatment of current infestations as well as preventative methods and treatments. In addition to offering as-needed or one-time pest control, we also offer monthly, quarterly and yearly pest control options. Depending on the severity of infestation and your tolerance level for pests, we can tailor a program you will be happy with. Remember, with Strike 3, there is never a pest control contract to sign. You call the shots!
Commercial Pest Control
Strike 3 offers commercial pest control services to small businesses and commercial facilities in the Oklahoma City metro. We offer pest control services to meet the needs of each of these environments and more...
In the spring, winged reproductives leave the parental nest in swarms to create a new colony. The swarming lasts less than an hour, so it's very likely you'll never even see it. The winged reproductives themselves look quite a bit like flying ants, for which they are often mistaken.
Spiders
Habitat: The webs of these spiders are usually built in or beneath objects close to the ground such as under porches, under foundations of buildings, and in basements.
Termites
Locally owned and operated, Strike 3 Pest Control provides termite and general pest control solutions for both residential and small commercial customers in the Oklahoma City metro. We offer convenient, long-term service plans or one-time service options to meet your unique pest control needs. As a Termidor certified professional, you can rest assured that we are well educated in termite biology and behavior, to properly and effectively identify, prevent and treat termite problems.
Fleas
Life Cycle: Flea eggs are small and white. Generally, after several weeks the eggs drop off and hatch into tiny, hairy, worm-like larvae. The larvae are usually found where the animal sleeps, along baseboards, in carpets, or on furniture. Pupa mature to adulthood within a cocoon woven by the larva to which dust, pet hair, carpet fibers, and other debris adhere. After about five to fourteen days adult fleas emerge from the cocoon. Female fleas lay up to twenty eggs per day and six-hundred in a lifetime. Although fleas can live up to two months or one year without eating, they cannot survive or lay eggs without blood. Newly emerged adult fleas live only about one week if a blood meal is not obtained. People may be bitten by fleas, especially when populations are high, but fleas will not live and reproduce on humans.
Cockroaches
Habitat: This cockroach is a common inhabitant of sewage systems and basements. The American cockroach is found most commonly in restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, and where food is prepared or stored. During the summer months, alley ways and yards may be badly infested.
Silverfish
Habitat: Recluse spiders avoid areas where there is human activity, and prefer closets, guest rooms, basements, and attics. Outside, they like piles of rocks and leaves. They frequently inhabit shoe boxes, clothing and furniture. These spiders are most active at night and feed on silverfish, crickets, and other insects. Most people are bitten on the hands or feet when they are handling infested items.
Bees
Africanized honey bees (AHB) were first imported to the Americas in 1956 by the prominent Brazilian geneticist, Warwick Kerr. He thought there was a good possibility that he could utilize African stock to produce a new breed of honey bees, which would be less defensive than the wild African bees but which would be more productive than European honey bees (EHB) in Brazil's tropical setting.
Wasps
Host: Cicada killers do not feed on plants. The larvae feed primarily on paralyzed cicadas. The adult wasps feed on flower nectar.
Ticks
Life Cycle: Adults become active in late September and October and are present until March or April. The preferred host for larvae and nymphs is the white-footed mouse, while adult ticks prefer to feed on white-tailed deer. Ticks can feed on humans at any stage, but most often the nymph transmits the spirochete. Animal studies have shown that
Crickets
Description: Field crickets are black or dark brown insects about 1 inch long as adults. They have large hind legs (for jumping) and most have well-developed wings. Nymphs are similar but are smaller and lack wings. Both have long, slender antennae.
Earwigs
Lawn or outdoor pest management is also available. A general pest treatment of the structure will control the following: spiders (including fiddlebacks and black widows), ants, crickets, scorpions, earwigs, fleas, ticks, roaches, beetles, wasps, hornets, flies, mosquitoes, silverfish, centipedes, millipedes and much more.
Mosquitoes
Flies
Centipedes
Description: Centipedes are worm-like arthropods with a flattened body and a distinct head that bears a pair of long antennae. Jaws containing venom glands are located on the first body segment behind the head. Centipedes, or “100-legged worms,” have only one pair of legs on each body segment. Depending on the species, centipedes can vary in length from one to 12 or more inches, with the total number of legs varying from 10 to 100 or more. The most common species of centipede found in Oklahoma is two to six inches long. Centipedes can range in color from yellowish-brown, dark brown, to iridescent reddish-green.
Millipedes
Habitat: Most millipedes feed on damp and decaying vegetation and leaf litter, although some species will attack the roots and lower leaves of living plants. They spend most of their life in the soil. Adult millipedes spend the winter in soil, debris, and leaf litter found under trees.
Beetles
Description: Adult cigarette beetles are yellowish to reddish brown, oval-shaped, and about 1/10 inch long. The head is bent downward sharply, giving the body a humpbacked appearance when viewed from the side. The wing covers (elytra) are smooth. The antennae are uniformly serrate (saw-like).
Scorpions
Description: Adult striped scorpions are yellowish tan with two broad, darkened longitudinal bands on the top of the abdomen. They are up to 3.5 inches long. The female produces living young, which she carries on her back for five to 15 days. It takes three to four years for the young to reach maturity. Adults may live two to five years. Oklahoma may have from 3-5 species of scorpions.
Hornets
Pantry Pests
Strike 3 specializes in termite prevention and treatment, and elimination of ants, roaches and fleas. We also perform specialized treatments for spiders, scorpions, wasps, flea/tick lawn treatments, rodent problems, and pantry pest problems such as Indian Mealmoths. We guarantee almost all treatments; meaning that we will not charge if follow-ups are needed after the initial services are provided (some time limits might apply).
Aphids
Activity: Carpenter ants are active indoors during many months of the year, usually during the spring and summer. When ants are active in the house during late winter/early spring (February/March), the infestation (nest) is probably within the household. When carpenter ants are first seen in the spring and summer (May/June), then the nest is likely outdoors and the ants are simply coming in for food. The natural food of the ants consists of honeydew from aphids, other insects, and plant juices, but they will readily forage for water and food scraps within the house.
Habitat: The American dog tick has a fairly wide host range. Dogs are a preferred host but adults commonly infest both large and medium sized mammals such as cattle, deer, raccoons, and opossum. The immature stages may feed on these same hosts but prefer to infest smaller mammals such as meadow mice, squirrels, and chipmunks. All stages of the American dog tick will also feed on humans if given the opportunity. In Oklahoma, this tick transmits the causative organism for Rocky Mountain spotted fever.