Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Cochranville, PA

Planting, harvest and Route 10 farm fields

Summer livestock and crop work bring flies and wasps; harvest in fall removes cover, and field mice head for houses.

Stink bugs and boxelder bugs leave crops and field-edge trees for sunny walls in September. Sixty-year-old foundations and sills give all of them easy gaps, and termites swarm from damp soil each spring.

A 1961 median build year fits the houses along the crossroads and the roads leading out of it: brick and frame ranches, Cape Cods and older farmhouses on block or stone foundations, many with a well, a septic system and a detached garage or barn. Original wood windows and doors from that era have shrunk in their frames, and the gaps around them are exactly what stink bugs and boxelder bugs hunt for in fall.

The farms around Cochranville are working operations, many of them dairy and crop farms, Amish farms among them. Manure, silage and spilled feed keep fly and rodent numbers high from spring to fall, and paper wasps and yellow jackets nest in barn eaves and fence lines. Homes set right against those fields catch the overflow every season. With about 83% of homes owner-occupied, the calls come mostly from families protecting houses they plan to keep.

Our Route 41 trip to Cochranville

We take Route 1 to Avondale and then Route 41 north. Thom or a team member checks siding, windows and the foundation before going in, because most pests here arrive from the fields. You'll receive a written quote following the free inspection.

Cochranville near Atglen and Parkesburg

Cochranville sits in rural western Chester County, where Route 10 crosses farm country near Atglen and Parkesburg, with Penn Township to the south. The village is part of West Fallowfield Township and grew up where Route 10 meets Route 41, the Gap Newport Pike, so farm trucks heading between Lancaster County and Delaware pass right through the crossroads. Octoraro Lake, the reservoir on the Octoraro Creek along the Lancaster County line, lies a few miles to the west, and families here attend the Octorara Area School District. Horse-drawn buggies are a common sight on the local roads. Outside the crossroads, houses are spaced along the roads between fields rather than grouped into large subdivisions. Our work in Cochranville follows the farm year closely: mice after harvest, flies and wasps through summer, stink bugs and boxelder bugs in September, and termite checks on 1960s homes and old farmhouse porches.