If you have found ants pouring out of your AC unit, swarming an outdoor outlet, or piling up dead in the corners of your garage by the hundreds, you are probably not dealing with a normal ant problem. In Polk County, those symptoms point to the tawny crazy ant — an invasive species that behaves … Read more
If you’re buying a home in Lakeland or anywhere in Polk County, somewhere between the offer and the closing table the term “WDO inspection” is going to come up. Maybe your lender mentioned it. Maybe your agent put it on a checklist. Maybe the words “termite letter” appeared in a closing document and you weren’t … Read more
If you’ve found mud tubes along a baseboard, spotted a pile of what looks like sawdust under a window frame, or you’re pricing a treatment before a sale, the first question is almost always the same: what is this going to cost? In Lakeland and across Polk County, the honest answer is “it depends” — … Read more
It usually starts at night. You are settling in, the house is quiet, and you hear it — a faint scratching or scurrying overhead, somewhere in the ceiling or the attic. Maybe the next morning you find a grapefruit on the ground hollowed out like a little bowl, the rind gnawed clean. In Polk County, … Read more
You wipe the counter, pour your coffee, and a thin line of barely-visible ants is already streaming across the backsplash toward a drop of juice. By the time you grab a paper towel, more have appeared. If you live in Lakeland or anywhere in Polk County, you have probably called them “sugar ants” — and … Read more
Home › How We Vet Pest Control Pros How We Work · Trust & Standards Lakeland Exterminators is a dispatch and matching service — we connect Lakeland and Polk County homeowners with independent, licensed and insured pest-control pros, and we don’t perform treatments ourselves. This page explains exactly how we vet the companies we route … Read more
Home › Mulberry › Fire Ant Control Mulberry & the Phosphate Lands Stepping into a yard full of stinging fire ants, or finding fresh mounds pop up across the lawn after every Mulberry rain? Imported red fire ants thrive in the open, sandy, sun-baked ground that defines this part of Polk County’s old phosphate country. … Read more
Home › Davenport › Rodent Control Davenport & the NE Polk / Disney Corridor Hearing scratching in the attic of a Davenport home or short-term rental, or finding droppings in the garage? Davenport’s fast-growing subdivisions and vacation-rental density sit right in roof-rat country, and an empty rental between guests is exactly when rodents move in. … Read more
Home › Haines City › Ant Control Haines City & the I-4 / US-27 Corridor Trails of tiny ants marching across the kitchen counter or bathroom in your Haines City home, and they just keep coming back? Central Florida’s warm humidity supports several nuisance ant species that nest in walls and slabs and shrug off … Read more
Home › Bartow › Subterranean Termite Treatment Bartow & Central Polk County Spotted a mud tube running up a foundation wall, or a spring swarm of dark winged insects around a window in your Bartow home? Those are subterranean termites — the soil-dwelling species that causes the most structural damage in Polk County. Bartow’s older … Read more