Pest Control in Fairfield County, OH

Wooded foothills near Hocking Hills: ticks, carpenter ants and wasps

A house that backs onto hardwoods has more going on than a house on an open lot. Fallen limbs and stumps host carpenter ant colonies, leaf litter holds ticks, and deck undersides and hollow trees give hornets and yellow jackets room to build. Southeastern Fairfield County has plenty of all three.

Pest work in wooded yards is mostly about the line between the trees and the house. Trimming limbs off the roof, moving firewood away from the wall and keeping mulch thin all shrink the trouble. Our page on mosquito and tick control covers the yard side of it.

Pest control services Fairfield County homeowners use

West-county commuter suburbs along the Franklin line

The western side looks like the Columbus suburbs it borders, with tight lots, attached garages and homes that were built when the median year was 1983. These houses are around 40 years old, old enough for caulk to have failed at windows and for weatherstripping on garage doors to have worn thin.

The pests are the familiar ones. Ants come in at kitchen and bath windows in summer, spiders gather in garage corners, and mice follow warmth in October. Our Pickerington page covers that suburban side in more detail.

US-33, I-70 and the glacial line across Fairfield County

Fairfield County was created in 1800 and covers 509 square miles. Its northern part is flat, once-glaciated ground, and the south reaches the foothills of Appalachia, so the pest list changes as you drive. Interstate 70 and US routes 22 and 33 cross the county, and US-33 is the run we take from Dunning Rd toward Lancaster.

Buckeye Lake State Park spans Fairfield, Licking and Perry counties, so a lakeside house on the Fairfield side deals with the same damp wood and closed-up cottage problems as the Licking County shore. On flat northern lots we check where water stands after rain. In the south we start at the tree line and the deck.

Booking a visit across Fairfield County

The county seat has its own page for pest control in Lancaster, OH. We also take calls from Baltimore, Carroll, Lithopolis and Amanda. Give us your town and the pest, and we will say when we can come.

Each visit starts with questions about allergies, pets and children. We then inspect, treat per label directions and tell you the re-entry time listed on the label. Boydes has worked central Ohio since 1990, and the US-33 run out to Lancaster is one of the routes we know well.