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Pete's Pest Control

Residential Pest Control
We Specialize in residential pest control as well as restaurants and commercial kitchens in the food and beverage industry. Our primary services include ants, bees, wasps, spiders, mice and rats, fleas, and roaches.

Insects and Spiders

Ants
These ants are about 1/8-inch (3 mm) long. Color: Dark brown or black. These ants are most easily identified by the coconut or turpentine odor produced when their bodies are crushed. This odor gives this ant its name. Geographic Range: The odorous house ant is found throughout North America. Habitat: These ants nest outdoors under items on the ground, within landscape mulch, beneath loose bark on trees, under ground cover, in potted plants, and within piles of items, such as lumber, firewood, or bricks. Nests may readily be established inside homes, in walls, beneath carpeting, and other suitable voids or spaces.
Spiders
Almost all spiders possess venom for the purpose of subduing their prey – normally insects. This makes spiders one of the most beneficial of invertebrate groups. Spider venom is occasionally used against humans. This usually happens when the spider is trying to defend itself. While many spiders are not able to penetrate human skin with their fangs, those that can occasionally inflict painful and, in rare cases, dangerous bites.
Termites
Termites feed on wood and may live deep inside the structure. Treatment alone for the Pacific Dampwood termite is not enough. Repairing the wood and eliminating moisture problems are recommended. The Western Subterranean termite attack wood but return to the soil. Both may create mud tubes for protection and moisture as they travel about. Treatment in some cases involves trenching inside and outside of foundation walls and sub-slab injection. Consult Pete’s Pest Control for proper identification and measures that can be taken to discourage infestation.
Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are oval, chestnut-brown insects and are flattened from top to bottom. Adult bed bugs (Fig. 1) measure about ¼ inch in length. The mouthparts are shaped into an elongated proboscis, which, when not in use, is held directed backward underneath the body. When a bug is ready to feed, the proboscis is extended forward and the stylets within are thrust into the skin of a host. Mated female bed bugs deposit their eggs in their resting places. One female will produce about 345 eggs during her lifespan.
Fleas
Few other parasites are as difficult to control as fleas. Traditional attempts of controlling this pest on the pet revolved around an array of products like collars, sprays, powders and shampoos. In addition, household products such as light traps, sonic devices, and chemical foggers were also used. However, only a few lucky pet owners will claim to have completely and in long term conquered the annoying flea using any of these methods.
Cockroaches
Adult Brownbanded cockroaches have wings, are about 5/8 inch long and are light brown to dark glossy brown. Males are capable of flight. Nymphs and females are broad when viewed from above, while the male is slender. The male’s wings cover the abdomen, whereas the female’s wings are short, exposing the abdomen. Most cockroaches have a flattened, oval shape, spiny legs, and long, filamentous antennae. Immature stages are smaller, have undeveloped wings and resemble adults. These roaches have two light, transverse bands across the base of the wings and abdomen. These bands may appear irregular or broken but are usually quite apparent on the nymphs and females. These insects feed on starchy materials and even non-food materials such as nylon stockings. These roaches are active at night, and nymphs and adults jump rapidly when disturbed. These pests do not require as much moisture as German cockroaches and tend to avoid light.
Bees
Bumble bees are not very aggressive, nest anywhere they can feel protected, and are beneficial pollinators of both crops and wildflowers. These bees live in small colonies of hundreds, and can be quite gentle. Bumble bees have a fuzzy abdomen.
Wasps
Paper wasps build smaller nests of paper usually on overhangs of buildings. They are moderately aggressive, but the small colonies are quite easy to handle. Catching these nests early with only one or two wasps on it is best for controlling them.
Mosquitoes
Centipedes
Beetles
I will recommend your company to anyone who asks. You solved our infestation and I owe you a telephone call, but forgot to phone today. I sent our comment to the Contact Form. We followed your instructions, so patiently given to this older lady, and we appear to be beetle free. I also bought bug proof containers for all the food stuffs that need it, cereal, mixes, grains, etc. We have a large pantry cupboard, and it took a day and a half to empty it, scrub it, spray it, let it dry, and replace canned and jarred goods. Yesterday our supply of new bug proof containers arrived from Amazon, and were washed, dried and filled with cereals, grains, and other food stuffs. Thank you! Our infestation had been identified by Oregon Extensiion Service (from my photos of the tiny little beetles) as Elm Seed Bugs, but nothing we tried got rid of them, until we sent photos to your office, and I walked to a hardware store to buy the proper pesticide (we have no car at our age) and now we have no little beetles on our kitchen windowsill!!! Thank you. We will be telling neighbors and family about your patience and knowledge. We recommend you highly!!!
Scorpions
Hornets
Bald-faced hornets are large wasps that live in large nests made of mottled gray paper, usually in trees. These wasps are quite aggressive and put a whopper of a sting on you. Tread lightly around these wasps.
Yellow Jackets
So glad I found Pete's Pest Control! He arrived FAST and completely rid our problem of YELLOW JACKETS nestled in a crack of our back door steps which is a high traffic area near our back door, garage, patio and back yard entrance. He saved our summer fun! THANK YOU PETE'S Pest Control!
Stinging Insects
For the most part, an encounter with one of these stinging insects, especially if they are alone, will not result in a sting. Here, the old axiom “leave them alone and they will leave you alone” holds largely true. The bees listed above (bumble bees and honey bees) are mostly gentle creatures who sting in defense of their homes. So unless you stumble across a bee hive, you are highly unlikely to get stung. Just let them go about their business. The same goes for the paper wasps. The hornets and especially the yellow jackets can be more persistent and aggressive...and yellow jackets are notorious scavengers for our sweet human foods and drinks. Swatting at them won’t help. Keeping your food sealed and limiting their exposure will.
Aphids
Odorous house ants forage both night and day and eat many types of foods. They eat live and dead insects but are also very attracted to sweet foods. They especially like the honeydew that is produced by aphids and mealybugs. Many colonies of odorous house ants tend or herd aphids and mealybugs to collect the honeydew they excrete.

Bats
Raccoons
Animals that may come indoors during winter include mice, rats, squirrels, and sometimes even raccoons and opossums. Rodents may come in through almost any opening – pet doors, holes in walls, missing vent screens, openings around pipes, dryer ducts vents, etc. The roof may also be a handy highway into your home. Rats can climb plants or trees that are too close to the house. That’s where roof rats get their name.
Opossums

Birds
Pigeons
All members of the bed bug family feed on the blood of birds or mammals. The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, attacks man, as does the Eastern bat bed bug, Cimex adjunctus. Other species exist that attack bats, pigeons, and rodents. Bed bugs are active only at night, usually just before dawn. During the day, they hide in cracks and crevices in walls, floors, beds, and furniture. When only a few bed bugs are present, they live close to human sleeping areas; when numerous, they can be found in many rooms of the house.

Rodents
In the U.S., rodents try to come inside from October through February. An estimated that 21 million homes in the U.S. are invaded by rodents each year winter.
Mice
House mice constantly give off hundreds of micro-droplets of urine as they travel around their territory every day. A large medical research study showed a protein in house mouse urine called mouse urinary protein (MUP), caused allergies in 18% of the inner city children studied.
Rats
There are two basic types of rats – the black or roof rat and the Norway or brown rat. European settlers probably brought the black rat with them as stowaways, while the Norway arrived around 1775 starting their own revolution by killing off their cousin, the black rat. Today, the Norway rat has taken up residency almost continent-wide, while the black rat has chosen the coastal areas of the southern, southeastern and western United States. In comparison, the Norway rat is slightly larger in appearance. Wherever food and shelter are plentiful, that’s where you’ll find Norway rats. Parks and recreational areas, older industrial areas, rail yards and back alleys are a real breeding ground for both species.
Squirrels
Pete is the only person I will ever consider calling for my pest problems. I first started working with him about 3 years ago when I had a squirrel family living in my attic. He removed all of the squirrels and sealed the attic so they could not get back in, and they didn't. I also had issues with a spider infestation in my lawn and he was right on it. When I purchased a new home last year Pete was the first person I had come by to "bug proof" the house and that he did. I have only seen 2 tiny baby spiders in a year and a half and they likely came in from outside. His service is unmatched. He is incredibly knowledgeable and very personable. I can't say enough great things about him. Any opportunity I get I recommend him. Thanks for all of the great work Pete!

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