Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Devon, PA

1940s Main Line houses on wooded Devon lots

Houses from the 1940s often have original wood sills on stone or block foundations, porches built close to grade and basements that stay damp. Eastern subterranean termites find those spots first, usually revealed when swarmers appear on a warm spring day.

Large shade trees keep roofs and trim moist, which draws carpenter ants, and wooded backyards send mice toward basements and garages in fall.

Many Devon lots are large and wooded, and some properties still have carriage houses, stone walls and old outbuildings. Those structures rest on old stone with little or no moisture barrier, so they often host mice, carpenter ants and powderpost beetles well before anything shows up in the main house.

Each spring the horse show grounds on Lancaster Avenue fill with horses, hay and bedding for more than a week, and stabled animals mean manure that breeds house flies and stable flies, which drift into nearby yards in warm weather. Deer travel freely through the wooded backyards between Devon and Wayne, carrying blacklegged ticks to lawns and garden beds, and old stone walls give chipmunks and yellow jackets places to tunnel.

From Media to Devon along Lancaster Avenue

We take I-476 north to Lancaster Avenue and head west through Wayne to Devon. Thom and his team inspect the basement, porch and roof edges at no charge and give you a written quote.

Devon Horse Show grounds and Easttown neighbors

Devon is a Main Line community straddling Easttown and Tredyffrin townships, home to the Devon Horse Show grounds and a SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line station. Wayne is just east and Berwyn just west. The Devon Horse Show and Country Fair runs each spring around Memorial Day and raises money for Bryn Mawr Hospital, and its grandstand is a landmark on Lancaster Avenue, U.S. Route 30. Jenkins Arboretum and Gardens, a wooded public garden, is also in Devon, and Devon Preparatory School is on North Valley Forge Road. With almost every house owner-occupied and many built before 1950, the typical work here is protective rather than reactive: yearly termite inspections, carpenter ant nests in porch roofs, mice in fieldstone basements each fall, flies and yellow jackets around horse-show season, and ticks on wooded lots.