Pest Control in Thompsons Station, TN

Can a brand-new house in Thompsons Station get termites?

Yes. A new build can feel like the safest kind of home, but the ground around it has been graded and disturbed, and builders often leave scrap wood in or near the soil. Fresh mulch beds, new landscaping against the slab and a crawl space with exposed ground all give subterranean termites cover and moisture close to the structure.

Termites in Tennessee typically swarm in spring. Winged insects on a window sill or around a door are worth a call, and a termite inspection is the way to learn whether the winged ones came from a colony near your house. Slabs and crawl spaces are both common here, and the technician can tell you which yours is.

If a wood problem turns up later, termite treatment describes how the options are weighed.

What comes in from the fields around town?

Open farmland surrounds much of the town, and when the nights cool, field mice, rats and snakes tend to move toward buildings. A new subdivision at the edge of a field is the first thing they meet, and the cover they like is often right there: construction piles, stacked lumber, tall grass at a fence line.

Mice get in through very small openings, around pipes, garage door corners and under siding. Rats need a little more room but will use a damaged vent or a gap under a deck. The practical fix is sealing gaps and removing cover, with traps or bait used where the technician judges it right. Read more under mouse control and rat control.

We have no sourced count of how many local calls are rodent calls, so we will not give one. The pattern is simply what a technician expects at the edge of open land.

Old farmhouses and barns: wasps, rodents and carpenter ants

The older properties are a different job. A barn or farmhouse has eaves, rafters and wall voids where wasps build in the warm months, rodents nest in the cooler ones and carpenter ants work in wood that has gotten damp. Carpenter ants do not eat wood the way termites do; they excavate it, and they tend to favour wood that stays wet, such as a porch post or a window sill with a leak.

If you own one of these buildings, the useful first step is walking it with a technician at the start of spring, before nests are established. See wasp and hornet removal and carpenter ant control for what each visit covers. Call (855) 974-4733 if you have a nest in a place you cannot reach safely.

What should a Thompsons Station homeowner do in autumn?

Autumn is when the open land around town sends animals toward your walls. A short list helps: cut grass and brush back from the foundation, move firewood and stored lumber away from the house, seal gaps around utility lines, and check the garage door seal.

Asian lady beetles are another autumn visitor. UT Extension says they move indoors in October and gather on sunny sides of buildings, which in a new subdivision means the south and west walls of the house. See lady beetle and fall invader control.