800-901-1102Corky’s Pest Control Blog
Living with Bugs? Don’t look under the bed!
Aside from pets, family members, or short or long term guests, many of us often go weeks without seeing another living thing in our homes. But appearances can be deceiving. We are, in fact, surrounded by arthropods—insects, spiders, mites, centipedes, and other...
Know the Facts. Mosquito Season’s Coming Early This Year.
Every year new facts and control techniques for insect pests are circulated among the masses. This year with the mosquito borne Zika virus and West Nile virus being in the news, stories, testimonials and cheap, homemade solutions touting successful control and...
What Zika means to those living in Southern California
In the 21st century, no place on earth is more than a day from any other place. Therefore, diseases with short incubation periods, such as Zika, have unprecedented opportunities for rapid spread through human movement. All travelers, regardless of the purpose,...
Mosquitoes are in the news again and the news isn’t good!
Mosquitoes have been the bane of man’s existence for centuries, or should I say millenniums. Not only are they annoying, buzzing around our heads, their bites itching and looking red and ugly, they carry diseases that have killed millions maybe billions over the...
Bionic Ants. Revolutionizing Our Future Workforce.
Ants may be the perfect workers - they share chores, solve complex problems and work themselves to death without complaint. And now the behavior and appearance of nature’s most hard working insect has been copied in plastic and metal, with the creation of...
El Nino will bring more than wet weather to Southern California.
The wet weather pattern blamed for this winter's record snowfall in the East and mudslides in the West — is expected to wreak more havoc this spring with a surge in insects and other pests. When there's an increase in water, there's an increase in vegetation growth,...
Ant Facts to Start the New Year!
Holidays are over, a new year has begun, the kids are back in school and researching ant behavior and biology is my assignment this week so that I can pass on unique information about these abundant, complex and interesting creatures. So finding out that Ants, who by...
Insect Trivia: Who’s got The Most Toxic Venom?
The insect with the most toxic venom is not necessarily the most painful or the most lethal. Pain is a really subjective. What some might find excruciating, others might feel as merely uncomfortable. We can't compare venom on the basis of incidence statistics, either,...
Don’t Bring Pests into your Home for the Holidays- 5 Helpful Tips
Decorating for the holidays is great fun, but make sure to take a few moments to inspect holiday decorations for signs of pests before bringing them indoors. No one wants to deal with a pest infestation-especially during the holidays. Boxes of stored decorations,...