Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Upland, PA

Chester Creek banks and mill-era housing

The creek valley stays damp, and its wooded banks give Norway rats places to burrow close to homes. After heavy rain, low basements take on moisture that draws camel crickets and silverfish, and puddles left behind breed mosquitoes well into September.

Much of the housing is attached and dates to the 1940s or earlier. With most households renting, bed bugs and German cockroaches move with tenants and through shared walls, and older foundations offer mice plenty of gaps.

Mill-era brick and stone houses were built close together on the slopes above the creek, many over fieldstone cellars with old coal-chute and pipe openings that were never fully closed. Those cellars stay cool and humid most of the year, which suits house centipedes and the silverfish they hunt, and the softened mortar joints open into gaps a mouse can squeeze through. Shared porch roofs and attached rear sheds on twins let carpenter ants and termites travel along wood that touches soil or holds rainwater.

The borough's mature trees and the wooded park corridor add an outdoor layer. Yellow jackets dig into creek-side banks and lawns by late summer, paper wasps work the porch ceilings, and stink bugs collect on sunny brick walls each September before hunting for a way indoors.

From Media down to the Chester Creek valley

Upland is one of our shorter drives, around 15 minutes. Thom or one of his team checks the yard toward the creek, then the basement and kitchen, and in rentals asks about the units next door. After the free inspection you get the price and plan in writing before anything is treated.

Caleb Pusey House, Upland County Park and the Crozer campus

Upland County Park follows Chester Creek past the Caleb Pusey House, and the Crozer medical campus sits on the borough's edge. Neighbors Parkside and Chester Township share the creek valley. Upland is a borough of about 3,000 people inside the Chester Upland School District, and much of it was built by the Crozer family, whose textile mills on Chester Creek gave the town its start. Crozer Theological Seminary, where Martin Luther King Jr. studied from 1948 to 1951, stood here as well. Those settings explain the pest problems we look for first: rodents and wasps on lots that back onto the park's wooded slopes, damp-cellar insects in the old mill-worker houses near the water, and shared-wall bed bugs and cockroaches in the rented twins and small apartment buildings on the blocks above the valley.