Bakersfield residents play an important role in protecting the public health of their community and should take simple steps to reduce the risk of mosquito-transmitted diseases in their neighborhood.

The DIY pesticide alternatives found at your local Bakersfield home and garden store don't always work as advertised and improperly applied can pose serious health risks for humans and pets. 

Here at O'Connor Pest Control in Bakersfield we consider lizards to be pest control experts in the best sense: they feed upon many of the insect pests that sting or bite humans and they do so completely naturally.

Vector-borne diseases, while historically most prevalent in tropical climes, where they disproportionately affect poor and undernourished populations, are cropping up increasingly on the radar of temperate region disease specialists and medical practitioners.

Pest control companies are staying busy across the Central Coast, including Bakersfield. As summer turns into fall, O'Connor Pest Control has been fielding numerous calls per day for help fighting pest infestations.

Some agricultural scientists say that climate change could result in changes in the population dynamics of insect pests in Bakersfield. It may alter insect population numbers as well as insect feeding activity. If those insects feed on humans, the impact will be felt quickly and painfully!

Illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites have actually tripled in the U.S. over the last 13 years, according to a new report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and pest control will be increasingly important for Bakersfield.