Pest Control in Brentwood, CA

Pest pressure in Brentwood

Brentwood is known for its U-pick orchards and row crops, with sprawling new housing tracts built right up against working farmland. Gophers, ground squirrels and field rodents move straight from the fields and orchards into new yards and garages, while the long, hot summers drive ants and spiders indoors. Irrigated landscaping on former ag soil keeps subterranean termites and earwigs busy around slab-built homes.

• Cherry orchards and row crops ringing new housing tracts
• Field rodents, gophers and ground squirrels cross in from farmland
• Hot, dry summers push ants and spiders into homes

Brentwood homes and local pest pressure

Brentwood is still farm country at heart — cherry orchards, corn and row crops that draw U-pick crowds every summer — but ring after ring of new housing tracts now butts right up against that working farmland. That edge is where the pest pressure lives. Gophers, ground squirrels and field rodents move straight out of the orchards and fields into the new lawns, garden beds, garages and outbuildings, and a brand-new yard can show mounds within a season. The long, hot, dry summers push ants and spiders indoors looking for cooler, damper harborage, and the slab-built tract homes with their fresh irrigated landscaping sit on former ag soil that keeps subterranean termites and earwigs active around the foundation. Because so many of these homes are only a few years old, owners are often surprised how fast agricultural pests find them — but the fields were here first, and the wildlife simply follows the water and cover into the subdivisions.

Pest control around Brentwood

We run out to Brentwood up I-680 and east on Highway 4, deep into the far Delta, covering Antioch, Discovery Bay, Byron and the Bay Point and Pittsburg side on the same trips. Nearly everything out here is newer single-family tract homes on slabs, many backing directly onto orchards, canals or open field, which is exactly where the gophers and squirrels tunnel in. The work is mostly rodent and burrowing-pest control along those back edges, plus ant, spider and general residential service as the dry season pushes everything toward the house.

• Orchards and row crops send gophers and ground squirrels into new yards
• Hot, dry summers drive ants and spiders indoors
• Former ag soil under slab tracts keeps termites and earwigs active