Evangeline Timber Defense does pest control for homes and businesses around Lafayette. That covers cockroaches, spiders, ants, wasps and hornet nests, rodents, bed bugs, and mosquitoes, along with the moisture and crawl space trouble that brings on half of this work in the first place. We handle subterranean termite control and termite treatment generally, and we take on commercial accounts the same way we take on a single house. Call, and we'll come look at the actual problem — not just where you noticed it — and tell you what it will cost before anything starts. There's no cost to that visit. We take cash, check, or card, and our crews are certified for termite work under state rules. When the job calls for it, we can often get out the same day.
Termite work is most of what we do here, more than any other job on the list. Subterranean termites don't swarm through your living room; they work underground and through mud tubes you'll miss unless you're looking in the right spot — foundation edges, pier posts, the band board under a floor. Formosan termites swarm on warm evenings late in spring, and that's usually when a homeowner finds wings on a windowsill and calls us. By then the colony's often been established a while. First visit, we check slab and foundation edges, look at any wood touching soil or concrete, and go through the crawl space for mud tubes and wood that's gone soft or blistered. People expect termite damage to look like holes. Mostly it doesn't — it shows up as wood that gives when you press a thumb into it. We treat the ground around and under the structure, not just the spot the swarm came through.
We go over the property inside and out, crawl space included, and look for what's actually causing the problem, not just where it's showing up.
We confirm what we're dealing with — the species matters, because an ant problem and a termite problem look similar on a porch step but call for different work entirely.
We lay out what product or method the job needs and how many visits it'll take, and talk you through it before any work begins.
We apply the treatment itself — bait, spray, exclusion work, or ground treatment around a foundation, depending on what the inspection turned up.
We come back and check the work held, especially with termites, where the first visit rarely tells you the whole story.
Lafayette is the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, set along the Vermilion River, and by the 2020 census it was Louisiana's fourth-most populous city, with the city and parish together totaling 241,753 people. It sits in the Acadiana region, described as the largest population and economic corridor between Houston and New Orleans. A city built along a river keeps damp ground under it, and damp ground is where termite and moisture work starts — it doesn't wait for a particular season to show up. A parish with this many people, and housing built close together in a lot of neighborhoods, means a termite colony or a mosquito problem in one yard rarely stays confined to that one yard for long.
Lafayette sits low, and the ground here holds water. Humidity doesn't take a season off, so damp crawl spaces, and the mould and rot that follow, are year-round work rather than something that shows up in summer. Raised houses on piers sit next to slab homes on the same street, and each needs a different check — a pier house has an open crawl space to get into, a slab house hides its moisture problems under the floor where you can't see them. Hurricane season runs June through November, and that governs when we can get up on a roof or work a wasp nest safely outside. Mosquito season follows the standing water that comes with the rain here, and around Lafayette that season runs long.
Formosan termite swarms in Louisiana run from late spring into early summer, usually at dusk on warm, still evenings. Wings shed on window sills are often the first sign a property owner sees.
Source: LSU AgCenter
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Common questions about our pest control services in Lafayette.
Termite Control, Subterranean Termite Control, Bed Bug Treatment, Cockroach Control, Ant Control, and 6 more — all of it in Lafayette.
Lafayette, plus Scott, Broussard, Carencro, Youngsville, Duson, Milton.
No — estimates are free and carry no obligation.
Often. Same-day visits are available in Lafayette when the route allows, rather than promised; call (337) 279-3439 and we will say either way.
A licensed technician from Evangeline Timber Defense. The same people who quote the job are the people who turn up to do it.
Cash, check, or card — Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Discover.