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Pest control in Yalecrest, Salt Lake City, UT 84105
Period revival homes from the 1920s and 1930s under one of the city's oldest tree canopies. Yalecrest homes see boxelder bugs on sunny walls, mice and spiders in basements and wasps in mature trees.
Quick answer
Pest control in Yalecrest is shaped by its historic homes and big trees. Brick period homes from the 1920s and 1930s have basements and older window wells, and the mature maples and box elders along the streets bring heavy boxelder bug swarms in fall, wasps in summer and carpenter ants in damp old wood.
Yalecrest at a glance
- Served from
- Our Redwood Road service office in Salt Lake City
- Most common calls
- Boxelder bugs, mice, spiders, carpenter ants and wasps
- Busiest season
- Fall invaders and rodents
- ZIP codes
- 84105
Local knowledge
Historic homes under mature trees
Yalecrest is a historic neighborhood of period revival homes, many built in the 1920s and 1930s, on streets named after colleges like Yale, Harvard and Princeton.
Mature maples and box elders line the streets and yards, which is why fall boxelder bug swarms and summer wasps are so common. Older brick foundations and basements bring spiders and mice, and damp wood in old porches can draw carpenter ants.
Our Redwood Road office covers Yalecrest on regular routes.
Local conditions
Big trees mean boxelder bugs
USU Extension says boxelder bugs gather on sun-heated, south-facing walls in August and September before pushing indoors, and that in Utah they feed on maple, ash, stone fruit, apple and grape. Yalecrest's mature maples supply plenty of them. The homes add to it: Salt Lake City's median home was built in 1965 and about a quarter predate 1940, and Yalecrest's period homes sit firmly in that older group.
A wall treatment in mid to late August does far more than vacuuming bugs off the windows in spring.
Sources: extension.usu.edu, extension.usu.edu, point2homes.com
Common calls
What Yalecrest homes call about most
Coverage
Streets we cover
We cover all of Yalecrest, including:
- Yale Avenue
- Harvard Avenue
- Princeton Avenue
- Laird Avenue
- 1300 East corridor
- Sunnyside Avenue edge
Through the year
A year of pest calls in Yalecrest
Spring
Carpenter ants in damp porch wood and ant trails indoors.
Summer
Wasps in mature maples and eaves.
Fall
Boxelder bugs on sunny brick walls, spiders and mice in basements.
Winter
Mice in older walls and basements.
Mature maples and box elders on most streets feed them, and sunny brick walls draw them in fall.
Mid to late August, before they move into walls.
Yes. Older foundations and window wells give mice plenty of entry points.
Yes, along with finding the damp wood that draws them.
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