Pest Control in Lombard, IL

Lombard neighborhoods and homes

Around downtown and Lilacia Park

The older streets around downtown Lombard and Lilacia Park, the garden behind the village's Lilac Time festival, have bungalows, Cape Cods and older two-story homes with full basements and mature trees.

Brick ranches across the village

Most of Lombard is brick ranches and bungalows from the middle of the last century, with full or partial basements, window wells and attached or detached garages.

Apartments along the main roads

Apartment and condominium buildings line Roosevelt Road, Butterfield Road and the area near Yorktown Center, with shared walls, basements and trash rooms.

Pests Lombard calls are about

Mice in the fall

Through garage sills, foundation gaps, window wells and utility lines, the same as in Glen Ellyn.

Ants

Pavement ants through slab cracks and basement floors, odorous house ants after rain and carpenter ants in older porches.

Multi-unit buildings

Mice and German cockroaches traveling between units through shared walls and utility chases.

Wasps

Under eaves, in fences and in the ground under decks in late summer.

What you are seeing and what it usually means

Through the year in Lombard

• Spring Ants in kitchens after rain, pavement ants through slab cracks.
• Summer Wasps under eaves and fences, roaches more active in shared buildings.
• Fall Mice moving into ranches and bungalows through garage sills.
• Winter Mice and roaches in apartment buildings, where shared walls keep them moving.

Older bungalows and basements

Lombard's brick bungalows and ranches often have full basements with window wells and older utility entries, the usual way mice get in. Sealing those gaps with mesh, mortar and new garage door seals is what ends the fall mouse calls, and traps inside clear the mice that are already there.

Apartment buildings and condos

In shared buildings, treating one unit while the neighbors are untreated rarely lasts. Building-wide service, or at least the units on each side, is what works. Property managers get a written log of each visit, and residents get notice before a visit.

The drive and the visit

Lombard is a short drive from Glen Ellyn by Roosevelt Road or St. Charles Road. The visit is set on the call for the next open window, and you hear the price before any treatment. Lombard addresses use ZIP code 60148.

Before the technician arrives

• Note where and when you see the pests Kitchen at night, basement in the morning.
• In an apartment, tell the building manager The units around yours may need to be part of the plan.
• Do not spray store products right before the visit It scatters the pests.

Fall mouse work is explained on rodent control, and every service is on pest control in Glen Ellyn.

Detached garages, sheds and alleys

Many Lombard homes have detached garages, sheds and alleys behind them. Mice and the occasional Norway rat nest in garages and under sheds and decks, especially where birdseed, pet food, firewood or trash is stored. Sealing the garage door, storing food in sealed bins and keeping trash lids closed take away what draws them, and locked exterior stations are added where rats are active.

Carpenter ants in older porches

On the older streets around downtown Lombard and Lilacia Park, wooden porches, window frames and fascia boards stay damp under big trees and leaking gutters. Carpenter ants start satellite nests there. The technician finds the nest, treats it directly and points out the leak or branch that let them in, because fixing the damp wood is what keeps them from coming back.

Pavement ants in slab cracks

Lombard's brick ranches and bungalows often have basement slabs and garage floors that have settled and cracked over the decades. Pavement ants nest under the slab and push little piles of sand up through the cracks in spring, then trail to food in the kitchen. Bait placed where they feed works better than spraying the ants you see, and sealing the cracks afterwards keeps the next colony from coming up the same way.

Fall invaders on brick walls

In September and October, boxelder bugs, stink bugs and lady beetles gather on the sunny south and west walls of brick homes, then slip in around windows, soffits and vents. They do not breed indoors, but they turn up by the dozen on warm winter days. An exterior treatment in early fall and sealing the gaps they use keeps most of them outside.

Homes near Churchill Woods and the trails

On the west side of Lombard, near Churchill Woods and the Illinois Prairie Path, yards that back onto woods see more ticks at the lawn edge, more mosquitoes resting in the shade and more mice moving in each fall. The same plan used in Glen Ellyn's wooded neighborhoods applies here.

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