About the Baltimore & D.C. Area

The greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area experiences a variety of weather patterns that affect the pest populations.  A common misconception is that pest control is not necessary in the colder months of the year, especially the winter.  There are several reasons to continue service throughout the winter.  Some pests come inside during the winter; two of the most common winter pests that invade the home are spiders and mice.  Surprisingly, service calls for German cockroaches and bed bugs reach their highest volume during the winter.

To continue to prevent these winter pest invaders from entering your home we focus on maintaining a strong barrier around the exterior so that the interior can remain protected.  If we delay service from the fall to the spring, the products break down naturally with the environment and lose their effect.  When the weather begins to warm up and the pests become more active the barrier will be absent and pests will have free entry into your home, forcing us to start over completely from square one creating the barrier.  Pests are still around even in the cold months of the year.

Insects are most active during the spring and summer months of the year.  In the spring termites are swarming which usually begins during the months of March or April.  When they swarm they are seen flying and they are looking for a new place to colonize.  Ants have already begun to come out during the month of February.

In the Maryland and D.C. region most homes have basements which are more susceptible to pest invasion.  Spiders, centipedes, crickets, and earwigs are commonly found in the basement level of homes.  In our region we also have many townhome residents which are also more susceptible to insects.  These residents share walls and unfortunately usually share bugs too.  The most commonly shared pests among neighbors are ants, bed bugs, and German cockroaches.

With the vast and beautiful vegetation in our region we have many homes that border the edge of wooded areas, fields, and large lawns.  Homes near wooded areas are conducive environments for termites and ticks and homes near fields or that have larger lawns are more likely to have ticks as well.

Homes in this region often have nice decks behind them constructed of wood.  The wasps like to make their paper nests under the deck in the nooks and crannies and carpenter bees like to drill holes in the unstained and unpainted areas of the deck usually underneath or on the sides.

For more information on Maryland Pest Control and Pest Control in the Washington D.C. area, please contact us any time.