Pest Control in Collierville, Tennessee

The corridor and the receiving areas

Businesses along the Interstate 40 corridor receive goods by truck, and the receiving area is where a pest is most often carried in. The commercial survey looks at the dock, the back door, the bin store and the perimeter, and the monitoring plan is built around the points where goods arrive.

A business that receives goods from both sides of the state line should say so at the first call, because the pest risk comes from both directions and the log records each route.

Residential calls on a town lot

A house in Collierville is surveyed for the foundation, the garage, the yard and the timber. Ants usually come from the yard or along a pipe, and rodents from the garage or the space under the house. The trapping and treatment are placed where the evidence is, and the sealing follows.

A household that sees wings in the spring is asked to keep them and call for a check. The swarm window is late April through June, and the check follows the same steps as in DeSoto County.

Wood, water and the Tennessee record

MSU Extension's older 2006 newsletter says termite spread is mainly through infested wood products, and a load of landscape timber moved onto a property is a route worth checking. The review records the wood, its contact with soil and the moisture around it.

The record for a Collierville property is kept under the Tennessee licence that covers the work, and a copy of the report goes to the owner. A property with a second site in Mississippi keeps a separate record for that site.

Collierville, the corridor and the household

A Collierville household may be on a lot with a garage, a shed or a timber border, and the survey covers each of those. The corridor carries deliveries and traffic, and a caller who receives goods or materials from the Mississippi side should say so, because the route of the goods is part of the pest risk.

The Tennessee licence covers every Collierville visit, and the report names it. A property with a site in DeSoto County keeps a separate record for that site, so each state's paperwork stays correct.

A Collierville caller who has seen a single pest and wants to know whether there is more can book a survey rather than a treatment. The survey gives a list of what was found and where, and the household decides on the treatment that follows, under the Tennessee licence that covers it.