Pest Control in Licking County, OH

Buckeye Lake cottages and the damp-wood pests that follow

Lakeside houses and cottages sit close to water, trees and boat docks, and many of them are closed up for part of the year. Carpenter ants favor damp or rotting wood near a lake, and spiders and wasps settle into boat houses, porch ceilings and dock hardware. A cottage that has been shut for weeks is also a quiet place for a mouse to nest.

If you open a lake house in spring, check window sills and the underside of the porch roof before you start cleaning. Our page on carpenter ant control explains how to tell them from the ants that only visit your kitchen.

Pest control services Licking County calls us for

Around Intel's Jersey Township site: new builds and turned soil

Construction on a large site turns over a lot of soil, and ants and mice that lived in those fields look for the next shelter. New houses and apartments on the western side of the county are tight and well sealed, but gaps around garage doors, plumbing penetrations and vents still show up in the first year.

The homes near the site are what matter for pests. New construction beside open ground tends to see ant trails in the first summer and mice in the first fall.

The Licking River, Dawes Arboretum and the Earthworks: old trees and old water

Licking County was organized in 1808 and takes its name from the Licking River. Newark is the county seat, and the Newark Earthworks, part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023. Dawes Arboretum, founded in 1929, covers about 1,910 acres in Newark, with nearly 16,000 trees, shrubs and other plants, a bald-cypress swamp and the 70-acre Dutch Fork Wetlands.

Old trees, wetland and mown grass mean dead wood, damp ground and open sun, which carpenter ants, wasps and mosquitoes all use. Buckeye Lake began as the Licking Summit Reservoir, built from 1826 to 1830, and its water covers about 3,173 acres. A house near any of these gets a look at its eaves, wood trim and standing water, not just the kitchen.

Who covers what: Newark, Heath, Granville and the rest

The county seat has its own page for pest control in Newark, OH, and the retail city next door is covered under Heath. We also work in Pataskala, Granville, Johnstown, Hebron and Buckeye Lake.

A visit starts with questions about allergies, pets and children. We inspect, apply products according to label directions, tell you the re-entry time from the label, and explain whether a follow-up is needed. Boydes has worked central Ohio since 1990, and Licking County is part of the east side we serve.