Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Elverson, PA

French Creek woods at the back door

Large forests bring deer, and deer bring blacklegged ticks into yards. Woodland edges also harbor mice, carpenter ants and stinging insects.

French Creek and the lakes and wetlands in the state park hold water for mosquitoes. Newer homes built into wooded lots have decks and siding close to damp soil and leaf litter.

Hopewell Big Woods, the block of forest that takes in French Creek State Park and the surrounding game lands, is one of the largest unbroken forests left in southeastern Pennsylvania. Very few homes in the region sit this close to that much continuous canopy, and it shows in the pest calendar: carpenter ants in May, ticks from spring through November, bald-faced hornets on forest edges in late summer.

A 1996 median build year means the borough's houses are mostly 1990s and 2000s subdivisions mixed with older homes along Main Street. The newer ones were built with vinyl siding, wood decks and finished basements, and many of their foundations were cut into sloped, rocky ground where runoff collects against the wall. With roughly 29% of homes rented, there is also a steady share of move-in calls for roaches and mice.

Heading northwest from Media to Elverson

We drive through West Chester, up Route 100 and across to Route 23. Thom or one of his technicians walks the wooded edge and deck first, then the garage, basement and attic. We charge nothing for the inspection and put the quote in writing.

Elverson near Hopewell Furnace and Glenmoore

Elverson sits in the northwest corner of Chester County near Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and French Creek State Park, with Honey Brook and Glenmoore nearby. Hopewell Furnace preserves an iron-making village that ran its charcoal furnace from the 1770s into the 1880s, and the woods around it were once cut for charcoal before growing back into today's forest. Route 23 runs through the borough as Main Street, and the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Morgantown interchange is a few miles west in Berks County. Families here are part of the Twin Valley School District. The jobs this landscape produces are consistent: tick and mosquito treatment for yards that border the woods, mice and camel crickets in hillside basements, carpenter ants and termites on decks, and hornet or yellow jacket nests along the tree line in late summer.