Avimor Pest Control

• ◆Rangeland Edge Specialists: A home against open foothills has a different pest problem than a home in a valley subdivision, and it changes with the season as the range dries and cools. Our technicians treat that boundary directly, focusing on exclusion and perimeter work rather than interior applications.
• ◆Exclusion First: At this exposure, sealing beats spraying. Deer mice will keep arriving from the surrounding ground no matter what is applied, so the work that lasts is closing the garage seam, the door gaps, and the utility penetrations they use to get in.
• ◆Environmentally Conscious Methods: We prioritize exclusion, sanitation, and targeted application over broad-spectrum spraying. Treating at the edge of open habitat calls for restraint in what goes down and where, and that protects your family and pets at the same time.
• ◆Responsive Scheduling: Pest problems are stressful, and we take them seriously. Our team works to get you on the schedule quickly and keeps you informed throughout the process, from initial assessment to follow-up treatment.
• ◆Pest FREE Guarantee: If pests return between scheduled visits, so do we, at no additional cost, until the problem is resolved.

• ◆Droppings behind garage storage – Pellet shaped droppings behind boxes or along the garage wall are usually the first indoor evidence of deer mice or house mice, well before anything turns up in the kitchen.
• ◆Daylight visible under a door – Light along a garage door seal or an exterior door sweep marks a gap wide enough for a mouse. At the rangeland edge that opening is tested constantly.
• ◆Strong tangled webbing low in the garage – Irregular, strong webbing in low corners, window wells, or under stored items points to black widows rather than common house spiders.
• ◆Yellowjacket traffic into a dry slope – Repeated traffic into a hole on a dry slope or bank means a ground nest, and those colonies become defensive as the season ends.
• ◆Surface runs at the landscaping edge – Narrow paths of clipped vegetation where irrigated ground meets dry ground are vole runs, often with chewed bark at the base of young plantings.
• ◆Ants or earwigs appearing after irrigation – Insects showing up indoors shortly after watering means the irrigated band against the foundation is doing what it usually does in dry country: concentrating everything looking for moisture right at the entry points.

Early Detection Matters: If you notice any of these signs in your Avimor property, contact EcoGuard immediately. Early intervention prevents small problems from becoming major infestations and saves you time, money, and stress.

• ◆Seal the Garage First: Replace worn bottom seals, close corner gaps, and pack utility penetrations with steel wool and rodent rated sealant. On foothills properties the garage is where the great majority of rodents get in, and sealing it well is the highest value hour you can spend.
• ◆Keep Storage Off the Floor: Shelving instead of stacked boxes, bins instead of open containers, and a swept floor removes the undisturbed low harborage that black widows and mice both rely on.
• ◆Dry the Foundation Band Between Waterings: Aim irrigation away from the siding, repair leaking drip emitters, and let the soil against the foundation dry out between cycles. In dry surroundings that wet band is what draws ants and earwigs to the wall in the first place.
• ◆Clear a Break at the Dry Ground: Where landscaping meets open range, keep vegetation trimmed low along that line. It removes the cover rodents use to approach and makes the last few feet exposed ground.
• ◆Check Eaves and Covered Entries in Late Spring: Small open combs under soffits, eaves, and entry ceilings are new paper wasp colonies. Removing them in May or June prevents the established nests that make patios unusable in August.
• ◆Book Exclusion Before Fall: Rodent movement toward buildings peaks as the range dries and again with the first cold nights. Sealing and monitoring ahead of that is far less work than clearing an established indoor population afterward.