Pest Control in Rancho Cordova, CA

What pests do Rancho Cordova businesses deal with?

Because Folsom Boulevard carries most of the city's commercial uses, offices, restaurants and warehouses sit close to residential blocks. Food-handling sites worry about German cockroaches, which UC IPM calls the most common and troublesome indoor cockroach in California and which turn up in restaurants, warehouses, hospitals and apartments. They fit in gaps as narrow as 1/16 inch and are drawn to moist kitchens and bathrooms.

Loading docks and storage rooms attract rodents and spiders. A technician writes a service report after each visit, so a manager can show what was found and where. The commercial pest control page describes recurring service, and cockroach control covers kitchens in detail.

The city's industrial past also means large footprints: big roofs, loading bays and long shared walls. In buildings like that, a pest can travel unseen between units, so a technician maps where activity is found and writes it in the service report. The price is explained and approved before any treatment begins.

Are the newer Rancho Cordova neighborhoods safe from pests?

A newer address does not mean a pest-free one. Anatolia Village and Villages of Zinfandel are planned communities with irrigated landscaping, and in a rainless summer irrigation is exactly the water that Argentine ants look for. UC IPM says nests are normally in moist soil, under debris or along sidewalks and driveways, and that workers travel up to 100 feet to find water inside buildings.

Ants in these neighborhoods often trail from a planter strip along a driveway to a kitchen sink. Liquid baits with 1 percent or less borate, placed in a dispenser on each side of the house, are the UC IPM approach, and the ant control page explains the follow-up.

Newer planned streets also tend to have uniform plant palettes, so one overgrown shrub against a wall can set a pattern repeated down the block. Trimming plants away from the house is one of the UC IPM steps, and it costs nothing.

Do roof rats live near the American River in Rancho Cordova?

UC IPM says riverbank vegetation and mature landscaping are good roof rat habitat, and that these rats nest in shrubs, trees and dense plants such as ivy before moving into attics and wall voids. Established streets, such as those around Cordova Meadows and Sunridge Park, are where mature planting is most likely to support them.

Look for greasy rub marks along rafters, droppings in the attic and fruit with gnaw marks. A visit covers sealing as well as trapping, since UC IPM notes rats can enter any opening larger than a nickel. See roof rat and attic exclusion for how sealing works.

When do termites swarm in Rancho Cordova?

UC IPM says western subterranean termites swarm on calm, sunny days right after the first autumn rains, especially in parts of the Sacramento Valley, and may also swarm in spring in the northern valley. Drywood termites usually swarm in late summer or fall, from August to November. Drifts of shed wings on a windowsill are the clue.

Subterranean and drywood termites are treated differently. For a drywood infestation UC IPM says only fumigation or whole-house heating ensures eradication throughout a structure. A technician sorts out which type you have; read more on termite control. Phone (855) 974-4733 any hour.

Wings are usually all you see. After a swarm, shed wings pile up near the point of entry or on a sill. Keep a few in a sealed bag, take a photo, and do not vacuum the rest before a technician has looked. Because Rancho Cordova's two ZIPs include both older and newer homes, the same swarm can point to a very different cause on different streets.