Agricultural Pest Control Services

10/27/2026

Two widow spiders live around San Diego homes, and one of them is far more likely to be on your patio furniture. 🕷️

→ Black widow: shiny black, bright red hourglass, hides low and dark (woodpiles, garages, meter boxes)
→ Brown widow: tan and mottled, orange hourglass, found on patio furniture, chain-link fences, and play sets
→ Quick tell: brown widow egg sacs are spiky; black widow sacs are smooth and teardrop-shaped
→ Wear gloves when clearing clutter, and vacuum webs and sacs from eaves

Save this before you pull out the patio cushions. 📌 Our full guide is linked in the comments below, or call us at (858) 428-2174.

Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

10/23/2026

Five years with us, and the gophers are long gone. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"We have been using AG Pest for 5 Years. I first contacted them because we had a bad gopher problem. Owen came out to address the gopher situation & gave us a really reasonable price. Within a month the gophers were gone from our yard. AG Pest also sprays for bugs around our house. If you have a gopher/Bug problem call AG Pest. Thank you Owen & AG Pest for helping us out."

- Mike C., Google review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you, Mike, for sticking with us for 5 years! Owen, great work out there.

Call (858) 428-2174 or visit agpest.com for a free quote.

Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

10/22/2026

For an HOA, a termite finding is never just a pest issue. It's a scheduling, budget, and resident-communication issue. 🏘️

→ Whole-structure (tenting) treats the entire building at once, including hidden colonies, but residents relocate for a few days
→ Local treatment targets the wood with confirmed activity, so residents stay home, but it only treats what can be found and reached
→ The inspection, not a script, should decide which one fits

Save this for your next board meeting. 📌 Our full guide is linked in the comments below, or call us at (858) 428-2174.

Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

10/20/2026

That Halloween box has been sitting in the garage since last November, and it may not be empty in the way you think. 🎃

Stored décor is a quiet, undisturbed hideout, so check what moved in before it comes into the house:
→ Spiders and egg sacs tucked in the cobwebs (the fake ones and the real ones)
→ Roaches hiding in cardboard folds, and rodent droppings or chewed decorations
→ Open stored boxes outside, wear gloves, shake each piece out, and repack in sealed plastic bins instead of cardboard
→ Keep pumpkins off the porch rail and away from doors, set hay bales away from the house walls, and toss pumpkins before they rot

Save this for decorating day. 📌 Found droppings in the box? That usually means rodents are in the garage or attic. Call us at (858) 428-2174 and we'll find how they're getting in.

Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

10/15/2026

That scratching overhead after dark isn't the house settling. 🏠

When SoCal nights cool down, roof rats go looking for a warm, quiet place to spend the season, and an attic is perfect.

→ Listen for scratching or scurrying overhead in the evening
→ Look for droppings in the attic or garage and dark rub marks along eaves and beams
→ Check fruit trees for half-eaten fruit, and notice if pet food disappears overnight
→ Trim branches 4–6 ft back from the roof, pick up fallen fruit, and bring pet food in at night

Save this for your next weekend walk-around. 📌 Already hearing them? Call us at (858) 428-2174 and we'll find how they're getting in.

Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

10/12/2026

The first fall rain showed up, and so did the trail of tiny ants across your kitchen counter. 🐜

It isn't bad luck, and it isn't a dirty house. Here's what's actually going on in Southern California homes this week:

→ Argentine ants nest shallow, just under the soil along your foundation, under pavers, and beneath mulch
→ The first real rain floods those nests, so the whole colony relocates
→ Your home is the closest dry place with food and water
→ Spraying the trail kills the ants you see. The colony outside doesn't even notice.

AG Pest tip: before you wipe up the trail, follow it. Where the ants come into the room is the most useful thing you can tell a technician, and sealing that one gap often stops the whole parade.

Save this for the next storm. 📌 Our full guide (why it happens, where ants get in, and what to do before the next rain) is linked in the comments below 👇. Ants back every time it rains? Call us at (858) 428-2174.

Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

09/30/2026

See a cloud of winged insects recently? Before you panic — or ignore it — here's the 3-second test.

Check three things to tell if you're seeing ants or termites:

→ Wings — Termite: four wings, all the same length, extending well past the body. Ant: front wings noticeably longer than the back pair.

→ Waist — Termite: straight and thick, no pinch. Ant: sharply pinched.

→ Antennae — Termite: straight and beaded. Ant: clearly elbowed.

In Southern California, our main structural termite swarms in the FALL, not the spring. Western drywood termites fly by day from September through November, usually on hot Santa Ana afternoons.

A swarm in the air nearby doesn't prove your house is infested — they could be from a neighbor's, a fence, or a tree. What matters more is finding discarded wings on an interior windowsill or in a bathtub.

One more thing: don't vacuum the evidence! Take a photo first.

Full breakdown — signs, what a swarm actually means, and what to do — is in our latest guide on Drywood Termites. Link below 👇

📍 Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside
🔎 For a fast, free inspection: call (858) 428-2174

Western drywood termites swarm September–November in SoCal. What a swarm means, how to tell termites from ants, the warning signs, and what to do next.

09/19/2026

Feels like spiders appeared out of nowhere this week? You're not imagining it — September is their peak.

Two things line up at the same time:

→ It's mating season, so males that normally stay hidden are out and moving
→ Populations are at their yearly high after a whole summer of eating other insects

Where they set up in SoCal homes: garage corners, meter boxes, under patio furniture, in stacked pots, woodpiles, and along the low outside walls. Black widows in particular like undisturbed, dark, ground-level spaces — which is exactly what a forgotten stack of planters is.

Here's what actually reduces them: cutting down the insects they eat, clearing ground-level clutter, and sealing gaps. Knocking down webs just relocates the spider.

Save this one for your weekend garage reset 🕸️

Call (858) 428-2174 for a free inspection
📍 Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

09/17/2026

Here's the thing most people get wrong about fall in Southern California: the pests aren't leaving. They're coming inside 😬

Most of the country gets a freeze that resets everything. We don't. So instead of dying off, our pests just relocate — and your house is the warmest, driest option on the block.

What's actually happening in September:

→ Roof rats start scouting rooflines and vents for a winter nest
→ Drywood termites begin their fall swarming flights (yes, fall — not spring)
→ Spiders hit their mating peak, which is why you're suddenly seeing so many
→ Invasive Aedes mosquitoes are still biting, and they bite during the day

What you seal in September is what you don't evict in January.

We just published your full September–November guide — what's active, why, and the 7 things to do right now 👇

📍 Serving San Diego · Orange County · Riverside

What pests peak in fall across San Diego, Orange County & Riverside — rodents, termite swarmers, spiders & mosquitoes — and how to keep them out of your home.

09/11/2026

Property managers: the rodent calls you'll get in December are being decided right now.

Roof rats don't wait for winter. Across SoCal they start scouting rooflines in September, get in during October, and are nesting by November. By the time a tenant hears scratching overhead, you're no longer preventing a problem — you're managing one.

What we see on multi-unit and commercial properties every fall:

→ Unscreened attic and crawl-space vents on older buildings
→ Oversized gaps where AC lines and conduit pass through walls
→ Landscaping that's grown into a bridge to the roofline
→ Shared walls and pipe chases that let one unit's problem become four

The fix in September is exclusion work and a walk of the property. The fix in December is trapping, cleanup, insulation, and a lot of unhappy residents.

We work around resident schedules, document every visit, and give you a real point of contact.

📩 Let's walk your property before October.
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