Last night you went to sleep, all snuggled up like a bug in a rug. The next morning you wake covered in little welts all over your back, arms, and legs. Now, you know you closed the window so it couldn’t have been any pesky mosquitoes nibbling on you. There’s no sign of any spiders...
How do you enjoy spending your weekends? Maybe you enjoy catching a movie or relaxing at the beach. Perhaps you enjoy taking a hike around Thousand Oaks, Lake Eleanor or Paradise Falls? Or maybe you just like to relax at home with an excellent outdoor barbeque. You certainly don’t want to spend your entire weekend...
It’s three o’clock in the morning, and your bladder needs to make a pit stop before you head to dreamland again. You stumble into the restroom, sleep clouding your eyes when all of the sudden *ECK* those goes a two-inch long roach scurrying across your foot. If you weren’t awake before, you certainly are now....
What was that scurrying across the backyard? It almost looked like it could be a kitten or maybe a large bird. Maybe it’s just your imagination running amok? That’s it, your imag—or so you think until you see a kitten sized rodent running across your backyard’s fence. What you thought was your eyes playing tricks...
What is that dog barking about? It’s just a California Ground Squirrel running across the patio. Oh, he’s so cute. California Ground Squirrels are such cute little creatures, that is when they don’t stick around for long. It’s hard to believe just how destructive a little squirrel can be. And they know how to use...
After a long day at work, you decide to take your dog for a walk around your neighborhood, your dog comes to a sudden stop. Next, you notice your dog sniffing something on your neighbor’s lawn. You start walking closer to scope it out. Low and behold it’s an unusual creature that you have never...
At the beginning of spring, there’s a sound that starts appearing. It’s a kind of buzzing sound. At first, you might not be able to tell exactly what it is. Then, as it grows closer, you realize the buzzing is coming from one of your local honey bees. Oh, how sweet. Then you turn and...
Labor Day represents the last gasp of summer before the kids head back to school and life returns to its typical chaos of field trips, art projects, lunch money and missing homework. Most of us like to gather for one last party or family picnic before summer ends. If you’re planning a picnic at a...
You know you have a rat! Figured you got this! You saw the location of the rat as it scurried away. It scared the bejeebers out of you! You gathered up a couple of snap traps. You watched AIPM’s videos on how and where to place the trap but wait, you think… What Do Rats...
In the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet, a little girl was happy as can be as she sat on a tuffet. But she was scared away when a spider sat down beside her. It was probably a good thing she ran away, for had that spider been a Brown Recluse, it was quite possible she’d...
