Pest Control in Corralitos, CA

Pest pressure in Corralitos

Corralitos is a small rural community of orchards, vineyards and wooded lots in the hills above Watsonville. The surrounding agriculture and open land bring field rodents, gophers, ground squirrels and wildlife, and wooded creek lots favor ants and moisture pests. Older farmhouses and outbuildings leave entry points.

• Rural orchard-and-vineyard hamlet above Watsonville
• Agriculture and open land bring burrowing rodents and wildlife
• Wooded creek lots favor ants and moisture pests

Corralitos homes and local pest pressure

Corralitos is a rural hamlet up in the hills above Watsonville, a patchwork of apple orchards, vineyards, pasture and wooded creek lots with old farmhouses and newer rural homes scattered through it. The land, not the town, drives the pests here. The open orchard, vineyard and pasture ground is prime habitat for gophers and ground squirrels that tunnel through yards, orchards and gardens and chew irrigation lines, and the surrounding fields and brush send field mice and roof rats toward homes, barns and outbuildings. Where lots back onto the oak-wooded hills and creeks, wildlife comes with it — raccoons, skunks, deer pressure on gardens, and squirrels into outbuildings and attics. The shaded creek lots stay damp enough to keep Argentine ants trailing in, and the older farmhouses, barns and wood outbuildings sitting near moist ground give subterranean and drywood termites plenty of aging wood to work. These are large properties where the house is just one structure among sheds, barns and plantings that all need attention.

Pest control around Corralitos

We reach Corralitos over Highway 17 and 1, or down US-101 through Watsonville, working it with Freedom and Watsonville below, Interlaken near Pinto Lake, and Aptos and Soquel toward the coast. The jobs here are rural and spread across the property: burrowing-rodent work in orchards and yards, rat sealing on farmhouses and barns, wildlife exclusion on outbuildings, ant work on damp creek lots, and termite inspection of aging farm wood. With sheds, fences, plantings and open ground all around, we treat the whole property rather than just the house line.