For those considering their options when it comes to pest control in Santa Clarita, an expert is weighing in on store-bought fly bags and professionally-installed mosquito buckets. Cardon Ellis of Unipest advised against using store-bought fly bags around the exterior of homes, as he noted they tend to attract more flies than they catch.  “I actually think your problem gets ...

Residents in need of pest control in Santa Clarita can learn from an expert about two important components of bee hive removal. Cardon Ellis of Unipest first noted that the time the bee hive removal is performed is critical.  “When it’s below 77 degrees, they don’t like flying too much. When it’s below 55, they kind of almost can’t,” Ellis ...

A Santa Clarita pest control expert is offering residents three DIY tips on how to identify termites as what’s known as “termite season” returns this summer. “Right now it is the termite season,” said Cardon Ellis of Unipest. “When you get 77 or above degree nighttime temperatures followed by moisture, even from sprinklers or rain or whatever, boom, they just ...

A Santa Clarita pest control expert is answering a common question among homeowners and business owners alike: is organic pest control really better, for people and the environment? Cardon Ellis of Unipest noted the answer to this question really depends on the specific situation, the organic product in question and a person’s individual reaction to these products. “Organic is a ...

The Santa Clarita pest control company Unipest now offers a new kind of mosquito control service that doesn’t involve spraying chemicals around a home. “We’ve noticed a large increase in the amount of calls that we get for mosquitoes,” said Cardon Ellis of Unipest. “Fortunately, the spray days are over with mosquitoes.” Instead, Unipest can bury a special “bucket” in ...

A Santa Clarita pest control expert from Unipest is offering the community DIY tips on raccoon removal. “People especially in Valencia get a lot of raccoons,” said Owner Cardon Ellis. “You see them everywhere in Santa Clarita.” While Ellis noted that Unipest does not perform wildlife removal and instead partners with wildlife removal specialists when raccoons are discovered, experts may ...

A Santa Clarita pest control expert is telling the story of how the aggressive Africanized bees known as “killer bees” first came to California in the 1990s, and sharing how prevalent they are in the SCV today. Santa Clarita was originally only home to the more docile European honey bees, but that changed in the decades following an “accident” in ...

A Santa Clarita pest control expert is helping residents avoid potentially expensive bee hive removals around their homes this summer by naming two common problems that often lead to infestations. “It got hot all of a sudden, so everybody’s calling me with all kinds of crazy bee infestations,” said Cardon Ellis, owner of Unipest, noting that bees tend to appear ...

A Santa Clarita pest control company is seeing an “explosion” of crane flies locally as temperatures continue to rise this spring, according to officials. “When it warms up, all of a sudden all of those eggs hatch and all those young come out and you have a ton of activity,” said Cardon Ellis of Unipest. Sometimes mistaken for mosquitoes, crane ...

A Santa Clarita pest control expert is offering the community tips on how to perform your own bedbug inspection on hotel mattresses when travelling. Cardon Ellis of Unipest noted that checking a mattress for bedbugs before sleeping on it can be done quickly and easily. “All you really have to do is inspect the seams within six to eight feet ...