General

• Residential Pest Control

Insects and Spiders

• Ants
  A termite colony is like a whole city of people totally focused on growing and expanding. The colony has a sophisticated caste system and can be made up of millions of termites. Their goal is to make your home into a gigantic meal that can feed their entire family. Ants with wings look very similar to termites. Don’t be fooled! Ants have two sets of wings with the front pair larger than the hind pair. Both sets of termite wings look the same.
• Spiders
  Many people fear or dislike spiders but, for the most part, spiders are beneficial because of their role as predators of insects and other arthropods, and most cannot harm people. Spiders that might injure people—for example, black widows—generally spend most of their time hidden under furniture or boxes, or in woodpiles, corners, or crevices. The spiders commonly seen out in the open during the day are unlikely to bite people.
• Termites
  Species vary throughout the United States, but subterranean termites are the most likely termite to attack your home.
• Bed Bugs
  Bed bugs are small wingless insects that feed solely upon the blood of warm-blooded animals. Certain kinds inhabit bird nests and bat roosts and await the return of their hosts; others have adapted well to living in the ‘nests’ (homes) of people. They are usually found in bedrooms and they tend to hide in the bed or near the bed in nightstands, behind picture frames and under the mattress. Their flattened bodies allow them to conceal themselves in cracks and crevices around the room and within furniture Clutter around the room offers additional sites for these bugs to hide, and increases the difficulty in eliminating bed bugs once they have become established.
• Fleas
  Fleas are frequently encountered in homes and are common pests on domestic cats and dogs. Dog fleas look like cat fleas, but are rare in California. Sticktight fleas can become a problem when pets frequent areas near poultry. Female sticktight fleas firmly attach themselves around the ears and eyes of their host. Fleas on either cats or dogs in California are most likely cat fleas.
• Cockroaches
  Common roaches in California that can become pests: German roach, Oriental roach, American roach, and Vega roach. Of these species, the one that has the greatest potential for becoming persistent and troublesome is the German roach, which prefers indoor locations. Oriental and American roaches occasionally pose problems in moist, humid areas.
• Silverfish
  Silverfish live and develop in damp, cool places, particularly in basements and laundry rooms. Firebrats thrive best in very warm, moist places. They may be found around ovens, heating units, fireplaces, hot water pipes, the attic in summer, and near the furnace in winter. In apartments and homes, the insects crawl along pipelines and through openings in the walls or floors from basements to rooms above.
• Bees
  The stinger is a modified egg-laying apparatus, so only females can sting. Most hymenopterans live solitary lives and their behavior is more likely to be flight than fight. Honey bees, and bumble bees, have individuals in the colony whose task it is to defend the nest. If the nest is disturbed, these individuals will defend it vigorously. In addition, foraging members of the colony will also sting if they are disturbed or injured as they go about their activities.
• Wasps
  The most commonly known wasps are yellowjackets and hornets. These typically live together in a nest with an egg-laying queen and non-reproducing workers. The majority of wasp species are solitary, with each adult female living and breeding independently. Wasps play many ecological roles. Some are predators or pollinators, whether to feed themselves or to provision their nests. Many are kleptoparasites, laying eggs in the nests of other wasps. Many of the solitary wasps are parasitoidal, meaning they lay eggs on or in other insects (any life stage from egg to adult) and often provision their own nests with such hosts. Unlike true parasites, the wasp larvae eventually kill their hosts. Solitary wasps parasitize almost every pest insect, making wasps valuable in horticulture for biological pest control of species such as whitefly in tomatoes and other crops.
• Crickets
  Crickets are insects related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. They have mainly cylindrical bodies, round heads, and long antennae. Behind the head is a smooth, robust pronotum. The abdomen ends in a pair of long spikes.The hind legs have enlarged femora (thighs), providing power for jumping. The front wings are adapted as tough, leathery wing covers, and some crickets chirp by rubbing parts of these together. The hind wings are membranous and folded when not in use for flight. many species, however, are flightless. The largest members of the family are the bull crickets which are up to 2 in long.
• Earwigs
• Mosquitoes
  There are numerous types of mosquitoes that are what we call “vectors” of carrying diseases. They can carry many different diseases including malaria, yellow fever, dengue, encephalitis, Chikungunya,West Nile Virus and Zika – the newest mosquito-borne disease of growing concern.
• Flies
  Non-biting flies, such as houseflies, are not only nuisance pests, but they are also responsible for transmitting diseases and contaminating food. Flies are capable of contaminating food and transferring more than 100 pathogens, including malaria, salmonella and tuberculosis. Food contamination is one of the main reasons that fly pest control is so important.
• Centipedes
• Beetles
  Carpet beetles are insects are pests in warehouses, homes, museums, and other locations where suitable food exists. In California, three species of carpet beetles cause serious damage to fabrics, carpets, furs, stored foods, and preserved specimens.
• Hornets
• Moths
  The webbing clothes moth and the casemaking clothes moth are occasional fabric pests in California. Clothes moths are weak flyers and are not attracted to lights. They tend to hide when disturbed, and for this reason, infestations of clothes moths are not usually noticed until damaged fabrics, furs, or feathers are found.
• Pantry Pests
  Pantry pests damage food by contaminating it with their bodies and their by-products. The larval stage of the Indianmeal moth produces frass and webbing, and some beetle larvae produce secretions that give food a disagreeable odor and taste. Setae (hairs) from the warehouse beetle can irritate the mouth, throat, and stomach of people who eat infested products. In addition, pantry pests might introduce microbes into the food that could produce mycotoxins (highly carcinogenic compounds), especially if the food is stored in warm, humid conditions.
• Stinging Insects
  Stinging incidents often occur when nesting areas of social insects are disturbed. Be observant of the area around you. If you see insects flying to and from a particular place, avoid it. If you are going to be in an area where disturbing a nest is likely, wear long pants and a long-sleeved shirt. It might be a good idea to carry a military surplus, collapsible mosquito/gnat veil with you. Stinging insects often fly around the top of their targets. Because stings in the face can be disorienting, put on the veil, or pull a portion of your shirt over your head, and run away. Be sure that you can see where you are going!
• Aphids
  Are among the most prevalent pests in households. They are also found in restaurants, hospitals, offices, warehouses, and other buildings where they can find food and water. On outdoor (and sometimes indoor) plants, ants protect and care for honeydew-producing insects such as aphids, soft scales, whiteflies, and mealy bugs, increasing damage from these pests. Ants also perform many useful functions in the environment, such as feeding on other pests (e.g., fleas, caterpillars, and termites), dead insects, and decomposing tissue from dead animals.
• Firebrats
  If the pages and bindings of books in your bookcase have been chewed on, suspect the look-alike household pests–silverfish and firebrats.
• Snails
  Snail is a common name loosely applied to shelled gastropods. Snails have considerable human relevance, including as food items, as pests, and vectors of disease.

Animal Control

• Bats
  Earwigs are mostly nocturnal and often hide in small, moist crevices during the day, and are active at night, feeding on a wide variety of insects and plants. Damage to foliage, flowers, and various crops is commonly blamed on earwigs, especially the common earwig. Earwigs are regularly preyed upon by birds, and like many other insect species they are prey for insectivorous mammals, amphibians, lizards, centipedes, assassin bugs, and spiders. European naturalists have observed bats preying upon earwigs.Their primary insect predators are parasitic species of Tachinidae, or tachinid flies, whose larvae are endoparasites. Earwigs are fairly abundant and are found in many areas around the world. There is no evidence that they transmit diseases to humans or other animals. Their pincers are commonly believed to be dangerous, but in reality, even the curved pincers of males cause little or no harm to humans.
• Moles
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Bird Control

• Birds
• Pigeons
  Pigeons and humans have lived together for thousands of years. There are very many different types of pigeons in the world, and only some species give people trouble. This mainly concerns those species that live in cities and towns. They can occur in large numbers and multiply very rapidly. The city pigeons today are actually feral domestic pigeons that have been bred for centuries and originally stem from the rock dove. The pigeon droppings look awful on your roof and the uric acid in the droppings can damage your house. In addition, the droppings contain bacteria and fungi that can be dangerous to humans.

Rodent Control

• Rodents
  Most rodents are small animals with robust bodies, short limbs, and long tails. They use their sharp incisors to gnaw food, excavate burrows, and defend themselves. Most eat seeds or other plant material, but some have more varied diets. They tend to be social animals and many species live in societies with complex ways of communicating with each other. Mating among rodents can vary from monogamy, to polygymy, to promiscuity. Many have litters of underdeveloped, altirical young, while others are relatively well developed at birth.
• Mice
  Delk Pest Control is one of the few companies in the industry that offers complete rodent control including rodent exclusion.  Rats and mice cause major damage in homes and commercial structures throughout the Valley. They consume and contaminate food, damage structures and transmit diseases to animals and humans. Rodents live and thrive under a wide variety of climates and conditions.
• Rats
• Voles
  Residential pest control service with all of the extras. Such as control for bed bugs, lawn fertilization, pre and post emergent treatments for weed control, aphid control, snail control, rodent trapping, gophers, moles,voles and more. With confidence, we can say that Delk Pest Control is the only company that offers this service at this level.
• Gophers
  Gophers are small burrowing rodents that feed on roots of many types of plants. A single gopher can ruin a garden in a short time, and gopher gnawing can damage irrigation lines and sprinkler systems. Gophers do not hibernate and always plug up their tunnels. In lawns, their mounds are unsightly, interfere with mowing, and cause can cause injuries to people who accidently step into the hole or trip on the mound.