Carpenter Ants
The most destructive pest in Greater Vancouver. They excavate wood from the inside — by the time you notice, the nest is already large. We track satellite colonies and treat deep into the structure.
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Vancouver's damp winters and mild summers create ideal conditions for year-round pest activity. Our licensed technicians are trained on the pest pressures specific to Greater Vancouver.
The most destructive pest in Greater Vancouver. They excavate wood from the inside — by the time you notice, the nest is already large. We track satellite colonies and treat deep into the structure.
Norway rats and house mice are active throughout Vancouver year-round. We locate every entry point, seal with professional-grade materials, and eliminate the existing population.
Total eradication across all life stages — eggs through adults — using heat or targeted chemical protocols. Discreet, professional service with a 100-day guarantee.
German cockroaches are the primary species in Vancouver kitchens. We use IPM with growth regulators and gel baits to eliminate every life stage — eggs through adults.
Rapid knockdown of aggressive colonies, full physical nest removal, and preventative treatment that deters future queens from returning to your property.
Most pest control companies in Vancouver will not put a number on their website. We will.
What moves the price is rarely the pest itself. It is access. A rodent job in a house with a tidy crawl space and two entry points is straightforward. The same job in a character home with an open foundation, a laneway suite and a shared wall takes longer, because the treatment is only worth doing if the entry points close behind it.
If the honest answer is that you have a one-off wasp nest and do not need a programme, that is what you will be told. See the full range of pest control services we cover across the region.
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Vancouver's climate produces a pest calendar most of Canada does not have. Winters here rarely get cold enough to knock populations down, so the pattern is displacement rather than die-off.
Carpenter ants come out of dormancy. Winged swarmers indoors in March or April usually mean a nest in the structure rather than one in the yard, and that is a different job. Rodents that overwintered in a wall cavity start breeding again.
Wasps and yellowjackets. A nest that was the size of a golf ball in May is the size of a football by August, which is when most calls come in and when removal carries the most risk.
The single busiest signal of the year. Rats and mice move indoors within days of the ground getting saturated, and they use the same routes every year: gaps around service penetrations, unsealed crawl space vents, and the seam where an addition meets the original foundation.
Coastal damp keeps silverfish, sowbugs and dampwood termites active in crawl spaces and anywhere timber stays wet. Bed bugs and cockroaches ignore the seasons entirely, because they live at indoor temperature no matter what the weather does.
Whether it's a single ant trail or a full-blown infestation, our licensed technicians identify the problem, treat the source, and seal the entry points — so pests don't come back.
Pests inside homes can contaminate food, damage structures, and create health risks for families. Our residential pest control services are designed to remove pests quickly and safely.
Services include:
Businesses in Vancouver must maintain clean and pest-free environments. Pest infestations can damage reputations, disrupt operations, and lead to health code violations. Pesticon provides commercial pest control services for:
A treatment that kills what is inside your home and leaves the way in open is a treatment you will be buying again. This is the most common reason people call us second, after paying someone else for a job that worked for a season.
Rats fit through a gap the size of a quarter and mice through one the size of a pencil, so the openings that matter are almost never the ones people expect. Exclusion is the physical work of closing them, and it is slower than spraying.
| Category | Spray-Only Treatment | Pesticon: Treat, Then Seal |
|---|---|---|
| What it targets | The pests that are inside the building today | The pests inside AND the routes they used to get in |
| How long it holds | Until the next group finds the same opening, usually one season | Until the structure itself changes |
| Rodent entry points | Left open — gaps around gas and water lines, corroded crawl space vents, worn door sweeps | Inspected, listed, and physically sealed wherever we can reach them |
| What you are left holding | A receipt | A written record of what was found and what was closed |
| If the pest comes back | A second invoice | We return at no charge within 100 days |
| Cost across two years | A repeat visit most seasons | One job done properly, plus the sealing work |
Every job runs the same five steps, whether it is a single wasp nest or a building-wide rodent programme. Here is what to expect before anyone arrives.
Most pest control companies offer a one-time visit and hope for the best. We back every service with our 100-Day Pest-Free Guarantee — if pests return within 100 days of treatment, we come back and retreat at no additional cost. We have been doing this in Canada since 1999. That kind of reputation is worth protecting, visit by visit.
A lot of pest advice online assumes a detached house on a slab with a sealed basement. Very little of Vancouver looks like that, and the difference is where the inspection has to go.
Open or partly finished crawl spaces with original foundation vents. This is the single most common rodent entry we see across the east side and Kitsilano.
A second kitchen and a second set of service penetrations added to a building that was drawn with one, usually without anyone revisiting how it is sealed.
Shared walls, shared risers and a shared waste stream, so a cockroach or bed bug problem in one unit is a building problem by the time it is reported. The same is true of commercial and multi-unit properties.
Who pays, who arranges it, and what you need in writing. These are the two questions we are asked most often, and the answer is different depending on which side of the door you are on.
Pest control is generally your landlord's responsibility under the Residential Tenancy Act, and it is not a cost you are expected to absorb on your own. The practical problem is rarely the law. It is proving the infestation exists and that it is not confined to your unit.
Tenants call us for this regularly and there is nothing awkward about it.
The split is usually between common property and the inside of your unit, and it is set out in your strata's bylaws rather than the Act. If a council is trying to work out whether a bed bug case is one owner's problem or the building's, the answer usually turns on whether adjacent units are affected.
We work with property managers across Metro Vancouver on exactly this.
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Homeowners and businesses across the Greater Vancouver Area rely on Pesticon for safe and effective pest control solutions.
Most pest problems can wait for a scheduled appointment. These six should not. We offer same-day and emergency service across Greater Vancouver, and if it can wait we will tell you that too.
Late-summer nests are at their largest and their most defensive at the same time. A nest over a doorway or near a play area is the one job worth interrupting a schedule for.
In a home kitchen it is a contamination problem. In a commercial one it is also a health inspection exposure, and the clock is not yours to set.
Every night of delay spreads them further through the home. Moving to sleep on the couch spreads them faster, not slower, which is the single most common mistake people make.
Rodents are nocturnal by preference. Repeated daytime sightings usually mean the population has outgrown its harbourage, which is a much larger problem than the one you can see.
An animal in an attic or crawl space can be scheduled. An animal that has got into the living space cannot, both for its welfare and for yours.
The operating requirement is immediate regardless of how minor the sighting looks, and the documentation matters as much as the treatment.
Not sure how urgent it is? Describe what you are seeing and we will tell you straight.
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