Indoor and Outdoor Pest Control

Traditional pest control services usually consist of treating a house with pesticides. The timing of treatments varies greatly depending on the types and quantities of the pesticides used. Atlanta exterminators offer service contracts that typically cover pests in the house but not in the yard. However, many companies will take care of specific yard problems for an additional charge.

Common indoor pest problems in include ants, cockroaches, earwigs, centipedes, silverfish, and scorpions.

Common outdoor pests include palmetto bugs, bees, wasps, yellow jackets, pill bugs, crickets, fire ants, beetles, fleas, and mosquitoes. Many of these pests can also become a problem indoors.

Mosquitoes can invade any yard in the summer. Their familiar bite causes itchy, uncomfortable welts, and they can spread diseases such as West Nile Virus. Homeowners can take the following steps to reduce mosquitoes in their yard:

Remove areas of standing water, like kiddie pools and buckets, as a first step to controlling mosquitoes. Mosquitoes require standing water to reproduce, and they rarely fly more than a few hundred feet from where they hatch.

Properly maintain swimming pools. Mosquitoes will not breed in treated water, so chlorinated backyard pools are not a potential breeding ground.