Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Skippack Township, PA

Evansburg State Park Edges and Skippack Creek's Valley

Many 1990s and 2000s homes back directly onto Evansburg's woods or the fields around it. Blacklegged ticks wait in leaf litter at that edge, and Pennsylvania reports some of the highest Lyme disease counts in the country.

Skippack Creek and its wet bottomland breed mosquitoes through summer, and field mice from park meadows move into garages each fall. Homes approaching 30 years old are also losing their builder termite protection.

Skippack grew from farmland into large-lot subdivisions in the 1990s and 2000s, so most houses are big colonials on poured basements with walkout doors, attached three-car garages and long decks. That much foundation perimeter, plus mulch beds and landscape stone, gives odorous house ants and termites a lot of ground contact to work, and finished walkout basements hide the evidence.

Water moves through the township three ways: Skippack Creek through the state park, the Perkiomen along the western edge near Graterford, and the stormwater basins and swales built with each development. All three breed mosquitoes, and the creek floodplains stay soft after storms. Deer that browse between Evansburg and the farm fields carry blacklegged ticks into yards that look manicured but end at a woodline or meadow, and yellow jackets settle into dry lawn edges by August.

From Media to Skippack Pike

We take I-476 north and Germantown Pike or Route 422 over to Skippack Pike, about 45 minutes. Thom and his team inspect the yard edge, foundation, garage and attic for free, then give you a written quote. Seasonal mosquito and tick visits are set on a schedule at the start of spring.

Skippack Village, Collegeville and Perkiomen Township Nearby

Skippack Township includes Skippack village on Skippack Pike, which has its own page. Collegeville and Perkiomen Township lie to the west. Skippack Pike (Route 73) runs east past Skippack Village toward Center Point, and Route 113 crosses it at Creamery on the way north to Harleysville. Evansburg State Park covers more than 3,000 acres along Skippack Creek, with a public golf course, meadows, woods and a long trail network, much of it bordering residential streets. The Perkiomen Creek and the Perkiomen Trail follow the township's western side near Graterford. Skippack is part of the Perkiomen Valley School District, which follows Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002 rules for integrated pest management plans and notice before pesticide applications. Farm fields that remain between developments keep the fall mouse and stink bug season steady from one year to the next.