Pest Library

Identify the home invaders to get a better understanding of what you could be dealing with in your home.

We’re committed to your pest-free home.

Every membership with Avayda includes complete treatment of your home, coverage from all listed pests*. To find out more about how to prep your home for treatment, and even more about each pest’s unique patterns, simply click on a pest type.

*To find a list of pests/wildlife/animals we cannot treat, scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Ants

Ants are one of the most difficult pests to control because they are very sensitive to their environment. They create a pheromone trail to communicate their food and water sources, as well as any dangers. That is why DIY treatments like raid, ant-out, or home defense aren’t very effective, they will kill a few on contact but end up pushing or splitting the rest of the colony into another location.

Ants are best treated with a combination of on contact treatment and most importantly bait that gets taken to the queen ant who is responsible for the proliferation of the colony. 

Spiders

Spiders are tougher to treat because of clearance created with their legs. They don’t have the same body contact to the ground. Many other bugs are lower to the ground and have a lot more drag that helps the treatments attach to their bodies.

We get rid of their food sources by de-webbing and then treating for the nuisance pests like a carpet beetle, pill bug, etc. These nuisance pests are food sources for the predator bugs like spiders.

Mice

With weather changes in the winter rodents move closer to the foundation of your home looking for shelter, water, and food. Mice can squeeze through any opening the size of a dime. We do light exclusion work to keep them out. We can also place two exterior bait stations if you are interested.

Mice typically don’t travel more than 10-15 feet up and/or out. They nest where their food source is, if you’re seeing mice in separate areas of the home (upstairs and downstairs or garage and kitchen), you likely have more than one mouse colony.

Cockroach

The thing about cockroaches are that they are tough bugs, they are thigmotactic meaning they like pressure on three sides and prefer to squeeze into cracks or crevices. They are next to impossible for homeowners to treat themselves.

Most companies will up-charge for cockroaches. One of the things that our customers love is that we take care of them in our Platinum pest control plan.

Rats

Roof rats typically run the gutters and chew holes through the soffit to get into the attic. Rats love to sharpen their front Incisor teeth by chewing on things.

Most often in a home this is electrical wires, often causing electrical failure and/or electrical fires.

Norway rats thrive in various environments from sewers and trash piles to fields and homes, like most pests, they prefer easy access to food, water, and shelter. They are often found in basements, garbage bins, waterfront areas such as ports, along rivers and lakes. All Rats are nocturnal, they scavenge for food and explore their environment at night, they are extremely good climbers and swimmers. 

Rats are extremely difficult for a homeowner to get rid of once they become established on a property, they breed year round having a litter 4-6 times a year each containing 6-12 pups. They require a combination of traps, bait, and exclusion work to take away foraging and shelter.

Rats go after pet food as well as human food, causing contamination of the food. Ectoparasites like Fleas and Ticks live on Rats and transmit disease to pets, they should never be handled without gloves.

Mosquitos

The summer months in Canada are too short to not spend them outside, this is the time to enjoy your backyard. Mosquitoes require standing water to complete their life cycle, oftentimes when the weather cooperates with rain, sun, rain in our early spring your back yard becomes the perfect breeding grounds for these annoying pests. Water found in your gutters, swing sets, flower pots, toys, ect. along with nice shady areas for rest during the hot days, provide the perfect habitat for mosquito populations to thrive.

Our step 7 repel treatment will drastically reduce the mosquito population on your property to just a few occasional invaders.

Nuisance Pests

These little guys are not harmful at all other than they are a nuisance and a bit gross to have in your home.

The main issue you will start to see if you don’t take care of them is a larger spider population. Spiders are a predatory insect that feed on these nuisance pests.

Everyone deserves a pest-free home.

At Avayda, we know that you want a pest free home, regardless of the time of year. In order to do that, you need the right team and products to help remove invaders and keep them out for good. The problem is you’ve tried to solve it yourself, or you don’t have the time, and they keep coming back. Ultimately, you’re afraid they’ll never go away.

Everyone deserves a pest-free home. And we understand that your home has to be safe for you and your family. Free from any kind of insect, pest, or unwanted guest. We’ve helped create pest-free homes for 10,000+ customers, and we’re ready to help. We offer year-round pest services with safe products for the whole family and a guarantee that they’ll be out of your house for good.