Pest Control in Spokane, WA

Spider control starts outside. Automated Lawn & Pest Control treats the foundation, the gaps around doors, windows and utility lines, and the beds against your house, where spiders hide and hunt, so fewer of them make it inside.

When do spiders come inside?

Plenty of spiders live around the outside of a house all year: in eaves, window wells, woodpiles and the shrubs along the foundation. Late summer and early fall is when you notice them most. Many are full grown by then, and males wander in search of mates, which is when they turn up in basements, garages and bathtubs.

Signs of a spider problem

Webs in the corners of windows, eaves and basement ceilings, spiders in window wells and on walls, and plenty of insects around porch lights. Wherever insects gather, spiders follow to feed.

How perimeter treatment helps

A barrier along the foundation, around entry points and through the landscape beds puts a treated zone between spiders and your walls. If you're finding spiders or fresh webs inside every week, it's time to call.

Ants come inside looking for food and water, and they follow the same trails back and forth. Automated Lawn & Pest Control treats where those trails start and cross: along the foundation, around entry points, and on driveways and walks where ants are active.

When are ants worst in Spokane?

Ants get active as the ground warms in spring and stay busy all summer. A kitchen with crumbs, pet food or a dripping pipe is an easy find for a busy colony.

Signs of an ant problem

Lines of ants along baseboards, countertops and window sills, small piles of fine soil in cracks in the driveway or sidewalk, and ants gathered around pet dishes, sinks and trash cans.

How perimeter treatment helps

Spraying or wiping up the ants you can see doesn't touch the colony sending them. A perimeter barrier catches foraging ants before they reach the house, and active trails are treated directly. If ants keep coming back after you've cleaned up, give us a call.

Automated Lawn & Pest Control treats wasp and yellow jacket nests around Spokane homes and businesses, including nests in the ground. We've treated a yellow jacket nest dug in right at a customer's mailbox. Nests near doors, walkways and play areas are the ones to deal with first.

When are wasps and yellow jackets worst?

A yellow jacket nest is started in spring by a single queen. The colony grows all summer, and by late summer a nest can hold hundreds or even thousands of workers defending it. That's when they crowd patios, garbage cans and picnic tables, and when stings are most common.

Signs of a nest

Paper nests under eaves, deck railings and play structures, a steady stream of yellow jackets flying in and out of one hole in the lawn, a bed or a gap in the siding, and wasps working the same spot every day.

Don't plug a ground nest

Blocking the entrance or spraying it at close range can send the colony after you, and yellow jackets can sting more than once. Keep kids and pets away and call us instead, especially if anyone in the house is allergic to stings.

Mice need a different approach than insects, because a spray barrier doesn't stop them. Automated Lawn & Pest Control handles rodent control for Spokane homes and businesses: we'll look at how mice are getting in and recommend a plan that fits your property.

When do mice come inside?

Mice move indoors as temperatures drop in fall, looking for warmth, shelter and food for the winter. Homes and businesses next to fields, open lots or undeveloped land usually see more of them, because that's where many mice live until the weather turns cold.

Signs of mice

Small dark droppings about the size of a grain of rice, chewed food packaging and shredded paper or insulation are the usual signs, along with scratching in the walls or ceiling at night.

How mice get in

A mouse can squeeze through a gap about a quarter inch wide, so the entry points are small: gaps under garage doors, cracks in the foundation and the spots where pipes, wires and vents pass through walls. Call at the first droppings, because a few mice in fall can be a lot more by spring.

Automated Lawn & Pest Control runs commercial pest control as a program with monitoring and documentation. It's built on the same perimeter treatment we use on homes and set up around each property's buildings, use and budget.

Managing a rental or a business property? See commercial property care for everything else we handle, from weekly mowing to snow removal.