With main offices in Sacramento, Pinnacle Pest Control serves the greater Sacramento Region with a full range Pest Control Services that include insect, and rodent extermination and termite damage repair. We offer green pest control solutions that include orange oil for the treatment of termites.
In practice, IPM helps to promote sound structures and healthy plants by advocating for sustainable bio-based pest management alternatives. The general procedure for an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach to residential pest control includes the following steps...
Commercial Pest Control
Since 1998, Pinnacle has been providing a full range of residential and commercial pest control, termite control, and repair services. Our commitment to the Sacramento area has made us the regional experts on pest control, and we are constantly finding the newest eco friendly ways to remove all types of invaders.
Ants are highly social, live in large colonies, and are among the world's most numerous insects. There are over 12,000 ant species worldwide, but only a handful of these species are found in the Sacramento, CA, Area. For Pest Control Companies in our area, the most common ants encountered during an ant control service are Argentine Ants, Pharaoh Ants, Pavement Ants, & Carpenter Ants. Aside from being a nuisance, these unwanted pests have been known to transport several food-borne illnesses, including salmonella, since they wander across trash looking for food. In addition, one of the ant species mentioned, Carpenter Ants, will damage wood as they carve out tunnels for their colonies. Our family-owned Sacramento Pest Control company handles many customer service calls for ant control and carpenter ant extermination.
Spiders
Spiders are predatory arachnids and will paralyze or kill insects with their venom. They usually live outside and seek protected areas around windows, doors, and eaves. They will, at times, move indoors, especially during the colder months. Although there are thousands of different types of Spiders found worldwide, only a handful of species are typical in our area near Sacramento and require pest control. Common spiders in Sacramento, CA, include three venomous spiders, the Black Widow Spider, Cellar Spider, and the Yellow Sac Spider. Since many people are afraid of spiders, repeated sightings will prompt many calls to our phone number after searching for pest control Sacramento and seeing our many good pest control reviews.
Termites
We found them through a Google search. Had them do an inspection and were told subterranean termites was likely the cause of wings in our bathtub. They were more reasonable than another company we reached out to so we went with them. They were professional and answered all our questions. The job took the whole day but fingers crossed we won't need their services again! We were satisfied with the service provided.
Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are small parasitic insects that feed on the blood of animals. They are not known to carry or transmit diseases to humans, but Bed Bug bites can cause skin irritation. If you suspect a Bed Bug infestation, it would be wise to search out for pest control Sacramento and find the phone number of a company like Pinnacle Pest. Call us today for a Bed Bug inspection. Bed Bugs spread easily, and travel is the most common cause of bed bug infestations. An infestation can follow you on your clothing or belongings to any destination. These insects are excellent hitchhikers and are capable of traveling long distances with an unsuspecting host. They commonly travel in luggage, backpacks, and handbags to any destination, including public transportation, health care facilities, hotels, retail stores, and private homes. A visiting friend, family, or even a domestic help worker can unwittingly spread bed bugs. Should you suspect a problem, call our phone number today to schedule a Bed Bug inspection. At Pinnacle Pest, we have highly trained technicians for pest management bed bugs.
Fleas
Fleas are external parasites of mammals and birds. Indoors these pests can be found in the cracks and crevices near where pets frequently visit, including bedding, carpeting, furniture, and rest areas. They may transmit plague and have been linked to murine typhus. Fleas generally prefer cats, dogs, rabbits, or rats, but they will feed on humans. Fleas can easily infest pets that go outdoors. What isn't so obvious is that they can also enter pet- free buildings on people's shoes and clothing. They can jump up about 7 inches from an infested area, so even people can serve as a transportation source. Most Pest Control Companies don't get many calls for fleas in Sacramento, CA, but those who do come in are fairly aggressive infestations and will require pest control. Once inside, Fleas prefer deep, undisturbed places they can hide and lay eggs and begin their life cycle, and they can also survive for weeks and sometimes months without a meal.
Cockroaches
There are over 4,000 different species of cockroaches globally, but in Sacramento, CA, there is only a handful of them that we would consider common pests. The German Cockroach and the Oriental Cockroach are two of the most common for Sacramento Pest Control. Roaches enter buildings searching for food and water or transported in packaging or even on our garments. Once in your home, they multiply quickly, so you have to be very careful not to offer food and water. Keeping your home clean, free of standing water, food, and even crumbs will help prevent these dirty insects from infesting your Sacramento, CA home.
Silverfish
While Silverfish pose no threat to humans, they are considered a pest due to their consumption and destruction of typical household articles. Cellulose is the main ingredient in paper, paperboard, wood products, and cotton-based textiles. This means that they will eat glue, book bindings, plaster, paper, photos, sugar, coffee, hair, carpet, clothing, dandruff, tapestries, cotton, linen, and silks. If you find damage to your household items from this insect, find our phone number by searching pest control Sacramento.
Wasps
But for active infestations, we see "do it yourself attempts" go bad every day. Even for something as simple as spraying a wasp's nest, we see novice mistakes that will lead to failure. For example, people will often spay nests incorrectly and force stinging pests deeper into a structure or merely agitate them and force them through a different opening. Typically, we get a call the next day and face a more difficult nest removal. The point here is that our training and experience will save you time and money in the end, and it is ok to refer to professional services by searching for Pest Control Sacramento and finding an experienced company for your pest protection needs.
Ticks
Technically, Spiders are not insects. Both insects and spiders are arthropods, but they fall under different classifications. Insects have a head, thorax, and abdomen, and the thorax has three pairs of legs. They also have eyes, antennae, mouthparts, and exoskeleton. In contrast, Spiders have two main body parts: the cephalothorax and the abdomen. The cephalothorax has eyes, mouthparts, and four pairs of legs. Therefore, Spiders are classified as arachnids, a class of arthropods that includes scorpions, mites, and ticks.
Earwigs
Earwigs are harmless to humans. They can be responsible for feeding damage on flowers, vegetables, fruits, and ornamental plants around the home by eating the leaves. These leaves will have a ragged appearance with numerous, small, irregular holes.
Flies
There are over 20,000 different species of wasps, but only a few are particularly aggressive. These stinging insects will be either social or solitary. The difference is whether the individual members help build the nests as a collective group or act solely in the nesting and egg-laying. The social wasps will typically cause the most trouble around our homes as the group will defend its territory as a unit causing repeated stings. Some social wasps are predators of other insect pests and provide a significant benefit by killing large numbers of plant-feeding insects and nuisance flies; others are exclusively scavengers.
Beetles
Wood-boring beetles are significant wood-destroying insects in Sacramento, CA. Powderpost Beetles invade and damage decorative and structural wood and furniture and will require pest control. If you suspect this insect's infestation, it would be wise to search for pest control Sacramento and find a phone number for a company like Pinnacle Pest. This beetle generally feeds on hardwoods with high sap content such as ash, bamboo, cherry, hickory, mahogany, oak, poplar, or walnut and turns the wood into dust as the species' larvae feed on the wood's starches.
Scorpions
Hornets
In terms of classification, Yellowjackets and Hornets are types of social Wasps. Yellowjackets sting people much more commonly than Hornets and tend to be the most aggressive. Another common wasp that we see in Sacramento, CA, is the Paper Wasp. They are much less defensive and rarely sting humans. They tend to be a problem in high traffic areas near windows, doors, or entranceways. In the Sacramento, CA area, a Pest Control Company will likely get most of their calls for Wasp treatments from July through the late summer months of August and September. Homeowners are generally afraid of stinging pests, and the sight of a large wasp nest will result in many searches for Pest Control Sacramento, looking for our phone number and a pest control specialist.
Keeping pests away from your Sacramento, CA business is essential for your employees' and customers' health and safety. We will protect your business from insects and rodents, regardless of industry.
Mice
Mice and rats are also active all year round, but they seek to move inside manmade structures in colder months. In fact, the rodents we have in our area, the roof rats and mice, are referred to as "commensal rodents" because of their intimate relationships with humans.
Rats
Roof Rats can quickly adapt to a wide range of environments, and when living around the humankind, they are typically found around warehouses and residential buildings. They are good climbers and build nests above ground, not underground in burrows like Norway Rats. Outdoors, you can find roof rats nesting in trees, shrubs, woodpiles, and dense vegetation. In Sacramento, CA, Roof Rats are the biggest concern during November through February, and during this time, most of the Pest Control in Sacramento is for rodent problems.