Pest Control Services in Detroit, Dearborn and Hamtramck

Most calls start with one sign that’s become hard to ignore: droppings in a drawer, ants on the counter, a welt that wasn’t there yesterday, a nest over the back door. We handle four kinds of pest work in houses, flats, duplexes, apartment buildings and small storefronts. Whatever the pest, we trace how it’s getting in, then seal gaps and set treatments to match.

Find the Service That Fits What You’re Seeing

General pest treatment sits under Cockroach and Ant Control and covers ants, cockroaches and spiders. Mice and rats have a service of their own, because they’re handled with trapping and exclusion rather than sprays. Bed bugs and stinging insects each need their own methods too, so they’re kept separate.

How the Pests Compare at a Glance

The same house can hold more than one pest, and the first sign you notice is usually the best clue to which one you have. Where it turns up matters almost as much as what it looks like.

Where each pest is usually found and the first sign people notice

The pest	Where it’s usually found	A sign you’ll notice first	Page to read
Mice	Basements, kitchen cabinets, behind the stove and inside walls	Small dark droppings, about the size of a grain of rice, in drawers or along walls	Rodent Control
Rats	Basements, garages, under porches and along the foundation	Larger droppings, gnawed wood or greasy smudges along a wall	Rodent Control
Cockroaches	Kitchens and bathrooms, close to warmth and water	Roaches scattering when a light goes on, or specks like ground pepper in cabinet corners	Cockroach and Ant Control
Ants	Kitchen counters, window sills and along baseboards	A steady trail to food or the sink, most often in spring	Cockroach and Ant Control
Spiders	Basements, window wells, garages and the corners of rooms	Webs that come back days after you clear them	Cockroach and Ant Control
Bed bugs	Mattress seams, box springs, headboards and couch edges	Itchy welts after sleeping, or rusty spots on the sheets	Bed Bug Treatment
Wasps and hornets	Under eaves, in sheds and garages, and inside wall gaps	Insects flying steadily in and out of one spot	Wasp and Hornet Removal

Some signs could belong to more than one pest. Droppings can mean mice, rats or cockroaches depending on their size and shape, and itchy bites don’t always come from bed bugs. When a sign doesn’t point clearly one way, comparing it with the other signs of pests usually narrows it down, along with how soon it needs attention.

A Few Things to Check

• When you first noticed it, which room it was in, and whether it happens at night or during the day.
• A clear photo, or the insect itself sealed in a jar or a zip-top bag.
• Leaks or damp under the kitchen and bathroom sinks, since water draws roaches and ants.
• Gaps around the pipes under the sinks and behind the stove or the washer.

None of this means moving furniture or crawling into a crawlspace. Try not to spray a store-bought insecticide in the days before a visit, though. It scatters roaches and ants into new hiding places and hides the trail that shows where they’ve been living.

Why Roach Work Looks Nothing Like Rodent Work

The methods differ from pest to pest, but every visit starts with a walk-through and a written estimate, and it helps to know What to Expect before the day.

Mice and Rats

Rodent work usually pairs trapping inside the house with exclusion outside: finding the gaps they use and closing them with metal mesh, sealant and door sweeps they can’t chew through. In older brick houses with basements, most of that work happens along the foundation, and mice push indoors hardest once the cold sets in each autumn.

Cockroaches, Ants and Spiders

Roaches are usually treated with gel baits and careful crack-and-crevice work where they hide, rather than by spraying open surfaces, and the job goes better when leaks are fixed and food is put away. Ants are traced back toward the nest, since wiping up a trail doesn’t stop the colony. In flats, duplexes and apartment buildings, roaches travel between units through shared walls and pipes, so it helps when the neighbors deal with them at the same time.

Bed Bugs

Bed bug work starts with a close look at the mattress, box spring, bed frame and nearby furniture, then treatment of the places they hide. Eggs can survive a single treatment, so the work usually runs over more than one visit, with laundry and clearing clutter on your side in between.

Wasps and Hornets

A typical removal treats the nest first and takes it down once the insects inside are dead. Nests inside a wall are treated through the opening they use, and that opening is sealed only afterward. Paper wasp nests under the eaves are usually the easy ones; yellowjackets in the ground or inside a wall are the ones not to tackle yourself.

Sealing and Inspection on Rodent Jobs

These three come from our own rodent jobs and show the sealing and inspection side of the work: wire mesh fixed over the gap under a porch, mesh and foam closing the gap where siding meets the foundation, and a flashlight check of a crawlspace sill.

Still not sure which of the four you need? Call us at (313) 351-0267 and describe what you’ve found, or Schedule a Visit and we’ll take a look in person.