Star Pest Control

• ◆We Know What New Ground Does: Pest problems in Star are usually a land use story: a field gets built, and everything living in it relocates to the nearest house. Our technicians treat that displacement directly, working the perimeter, the disturbed soil, and the entry points a new home offers rather than running a generic interior service.
• ◆Vole and Landscape Protection: New landscaping is exactly what voles want, and the damage tends to be found in spring after the girdling has already happened. We identify the runs, treat and monitor them, and flag the turf, ground cover, and irrigation conditions keeping the population in place.
• ◆Environmentally Conscious Methods: We prioritize exclusion, sanitation, and targeted application over broad-spectrum spraying. The river runs along the edge of this community and the laterals feed everything downstream, so what we apply and where it goes matters, along with the safety of your family and pets.
• ◆Transparent Pricing: Free quotes and pricing with no surprises. Quarterly plans are priced for the actual size and condition of your property, not a generic rate card. You will know the number before we start the work.
• ◆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.

• ◆Ant lines at the slab and bed seam – A steady trail where concrete meets landscaping, or ants emerging from a weep hole, indicates a colony established in the disturbed soil rather than foragers passing through.
• ◆Narrow runs and holes in young turf – Paths of clipped grass at soil level with small openings are vole runs. Bark chewed from the base of a new landscape tree is the same animal and the more expensive symptom.
• ◆Daylight under the garage door – Light visible along the bottom seal or at the door corners marks a gap wide enough for a mouse, and on newer homes this is the most common way they get in.
• ◆Droppings behind garage storage – Pellet shaped droppings behind boxes or along the garage wall are usually the first indoor evidence, well before anything is seen in the kitchen.
• ◆Ground holes with wasp traffic – Repeated yellowjacket traffic into a hole along a fence line or bed edge means a ground nest, worth handling before late summer aggression sets in.
• ◆Mud tubes at slab edges and joints – Pencil thin mud tubes at an expansion joint, slab edge, or utility penetration mean subterranean termites are working soil against the structure.
• ◆Earwigs inside after watering – Earwigs turning up indoors shortly after irrigation runs point to a saturated foundation bed sitting against the entry points.
• ◆Wasp nests starting under new eaves – Small open combs under soffits, eaves, and covered entries in late spring are new paper wasp colonies, easiest to remove before they build out.

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

• ◆Seal the Garage Door and Corners: Replace worn bottom seals and add corner seals wherever daylight shows. On a new Star home the garage is the primary rodent entry, and a good seal with a swept, shelved floor closes both the opening and the harborage at once.
• ◆Set Irrigation to Dry the Foundation: Point spray heads away from siding, fix leaking drip emitters in foundation beds, and let the soil against the house dry between cycles. That single adjustment reduces ant, earwig, and moisture pressure more than anything else on new construction.
• ◆Keep a Clear Break at the Wall: Leave a band of gravel or bare soil between landscaping and siding, keep mulch shallow, and trim new shrubs back from the walls as they fill in. It is far easier to establish that break now than to retrofit it later.
• ◆Guard Young Trees and Watch the Turf: Use trunk guards on new landscape trees, keep grass trimmed at bed edges, and walk the lawn in spring and fall looking for surface runs. Vole habitat is easiest to remove before the population settles.
• ◆Drain Standing Water Weekly: Empty saucers and buckets, refresh birdbaths, clear gutters, and check low spots after irrigation. Properties near the river bottom and laterals benefit most from making this weekly.
• ◆Time Service to Neighboring Field Work: When an adjacent parcel is cut, cleared, or graded, the mice living there move immediately. Scheduling exclusion and perimeter work around that activity keeps the wave from landing indoors.