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Boca Raton Pest Control Services

In Boca Raton, Precision Pest Control serves Mediterranean-style houses, gated communities and commercial properties, and adds termite and pest inspections for home sales. Work starts where hedges and palms meet the walls, from Old Floresta and Mizner Park to Boca West and West Boca, with plans built around white-footed ants, ghost ants, roof rats and termites.

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What Precision Pest Control offers

Our Pest Control Services in Boca Raton

Pest control in Boca Raton has to coexist with landscaping the city's rules protect, so we treat around plantings instead of asking you to rip them out. Homes in Old Floresta, Boca West and the gated golf communities start with a free estimate, then move to plans from $57 built on eco-friendly products.

Residential Pest Control in Boca Raton, FL

Residential Pest Control

Service for single-family houses and villas that begins at the hedge line and the palm boots, with ant and rodent work aimed at soffits, attics and shrubs touching the roof.

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Commercial Pest Control in Boca Raton, FL

Commercial Pest Control

Plans for Mizner Park shops, restaurants, offices and associations that share landscaping, with attention to dumpsters, loading areas and plantings beside entrances.

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Termite and Pest Inspections in Boca Raton, FL

Termite and Pest Inspections

Before a Mediterranean-style Boca Raton house changes hands, our termite and pest inspection checks for Formosan and drywood activity and hands buyers, sellers and agents the same findings.

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Get a Free Pest Control Estimate for Your Boca Raton Property

Tell us what you are seeing and where. We will recommend a plan for your home or business, with service plans from $57.

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  1. 1Request your free estimateOnline or by phone, for a home, rental or business.
  2. 2We inspect and explainYou see where pests get in and what the plan covers.
  3. 3Service plans from $57Eco-friendly products, built around your property.

What we treat

Exterminator Services We Offer in Boca Raton

Pest Help for Boca Raton's Landscaped, Mizner-Style Neighborhoods

White-footed ants

White-Footed Ant Control in Boca Raton

White-footed ants were first collected in Homestead in 1986, and UF has since confirmed them in Palm Beach County. Estimates for one colony range between 8,000 and 3 million. Colonies tuck themselves under palm fronds and into old leaf boots, loose mulch, leaf-choked gutters, wall voids and attics, and the workers live on plant nectar and honeydew from aphids, scales and mealybugs. Managing those sap feeders and cutting back branches that touch the house belong in any lasting fix.

Ghost ants

Ghost Ant Control in Boca Raton

The ghost ant is a speck, about a millimeter and a half long, dark at the front and nearly see-through at the back, so trails go unnoticed until they cross a white countertop. UF places it mainly from Sarasota and Orlando southward. Indoors it settles in wall voids, behind baseboards, between cabinets and in potted plants, and it heads for anything sweet. Each colony has many queens spread over linked nests, so wiping out a trail accomplishes little; the nests have to be found and baited.

Roof rats

Rodent Control in Boca Raton

A UF/IFAS entomologist describes the roof rat as the main pest rat of Florida's suburbs, and one that frequently goes unnoticed. Its other names say where to look: palm rat, fruit rat and citrus rat. Roof rats move into soffits, attics and wall cavities, gnaw on wiring and plastic water lines, and can carry leptospirosis, salmonella and murine typhus. Control is mostly carpentry and housekeeping: closing small openings, sealing up food, and trapping the animals already inside.

Formosan and drywood termites

Termite Control in Boca Raton

UF's termite distribution map plots Formosan subterranean termites in Boca Raton as far back as 2003, from the coast out to West Boca, and it holds even more local records of the West Indian drywood termite. Formosan colonies live in the ground and reach a house through mud tubes, while drywood colonies live entirely inside dry lumber such as door frames, window frames and attic wood. They call for different treatments, so identification comes before any quote.

Local advice

Rugose spiraling whitefly in Boca Raton

Since its 2009 arrival in Miami-Dade County the rugose spiraling whitefly has moved north, and UF/IFAS now counts Palm Beach among the counties taking the most damage. It is fond of gumbo limbo, the tree honored by the Gumbo Limbo Environmental Complex at Red Reef Park, and of coconut palm and bird of paradise. What owners notice is sticky honeydew and black sooty mold on cars, patios and outdoor furniture.

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Pest control treatment in Boca Raton, FL

Seasonal Pest Control in Boca Raton

  1. Termite flights, February to June

    Evening swarms of Formosan termites run from April into June with a peak in May, and drywood termites fly in the same stretch. The Asian subterranean termite, recorded here only a couple of times so far, swarms earlier, from February. Swarmers collect at lit windows, so check the sills next morning.

  2. Hot season, June to September

    Daily thundershowers refill anything that holds water, and Palm Beach County Mosquito Control reminds residents that a bottle cap is enough for a container mosquito. Winged white-footed ants leave their colonies around July and August in South Florida, so flying ants around the house in midsummer are worth a closer look.

  3. Dry months, December to April

    December is the driest month of the year here, so irrigation does most of the watering through winter and spring. UF's termite guidance is to point sprinkler heads away from the walls and to run the air conditioner's drain line well clear of the slab, because subterranean termites cannot survive without moisture.

Not sure what you are dealing with in Boca Raton?

Describe it on the phone and we will tell you what it likely is and how we would treat it. Estimates are free.

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7 questions answered

Boca Raton Pest Control FAQ

Looking for pest control near you in Boca Raton? Call (512) 561-7451 or request a free estimate.

Why is my gumbo limbo in Boca Raton coated in white fluff?

The likely cause is rugose spiraling whitefly. Females lay their eggs in spirals on the leaf undersides and cover them with white wax, and the feeding insects drip honeydew that blackens with sooty mold. UF/IFAS says the pest stresses plants but usually does not kill them. Pressure washing reduces the numbers if it is repeated; a systemic applied at the roots or trunk lasts longer.

Are there iguanas in Boca Raton?

Yes. FWC lists Palm Beach County among the counties with established green iguana populations and notes that South Florida's canals help them spread. They eat flowers, most fruit and many vegetables but leave citrus alone, and UF names oleander and croton as resistant choices. UF also suggests sheet metal bands around tree trunks to stop climbing.

Why do tiny ants keep coming back in my Boca Raton kitchen?

They are probably ghost ants, and the colony is bigger than the trail you wiped up. Ghost ant colonies have many queens and spread across several connected nests in wall voids, cabinets and potted plants, so killing the visible workers changes nothing. Bait that the workers carry home works better.

How much should I budget for pest control on a Boca Raton lot?

Our plans begin at $57. Beyond that, the number follows the lot size, how much landscaping touches the house and which pests are active. Mention the palms and hedges to whoever answers at (512) 561-7451, and a plan with a free estimate follows before anyone is scheduled.

Can you handle pests at a Boca Raton restaurant or office park?

Yes, commercial properties are part of our work: restaurants, offices, retail and association-managed grounds. Boca Raton buildings sit behind generous planting, so hedges, palms and dumpster areas are checked along with the interior. Everything we apply is eco-friendly, and a free estimate begins the conversation.

Is a termite check wise before buying in Boca Raton?

It is. Formosan subterranean termites and West Indian drywood termites are both recorded here, and each needs its own treatment, so identifying the species matters before any quote. Our inspection hands buyers, sellers and agents one write-up of what we found ahead of closing. A free estimate covers the details.

Can you get rid of the ants in my Boca Raton palms?

Yes, for white-footed ants and ghost ants. Palm leaf boots and loose mulch shelter both species, so we bait where workers forage and tell you which branches need trimming back from the house. Sap-feeding insects supply the honeydew the ants want, so your landscaper may have a part in the fix.

Boca Raton, Florida

Why Boca Raton Is a Hotspot for Pests

Addison Mizner drew up Boca Raton in the 1920s as a resort city, and its development code still favors green space over billboards. All that planting looks good, and it feeds and hides most of what bothers homeowners here.

Boca Raton counted 97,422 residents in the 2020 census and lies in southern Palm Beach County, about 45 miles north of Miami. Architect Addison Mizner was named town planner after the 1924 incorporation and built the Cloister Inn in 1926. His company went bankrupt a year later, but his Mediterranean Revival look still marks neighborhoods from Old Floresta and Spanish Village to the gated Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club.

A strict code on commercial buildings and signs keeps the main roads lined with landscaping instead of large advertisements, and developments such as Boca West and Sandalfoot Cove carry the suburbs well past the city limits. The climate is frost free. For pests that means food and cover in every month: sap feeders on the ornamentals, ants tending them for honeydew, and rats in attics and soffits behind the greenery.

Homes in Boca Raton, FL

Local field notes

What our technicians check first on a Boca Raton property

Unique to Boca Raton

What Makes Boca Raton Different for Pest Control

Hedges, palms and attics: the Boca Raton inspection

Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Boca Raton details that shape every plan we write here.

  1. We begin where the plants meet the building. UF recommends keeping landscape plants two feet off exterior walls, and it notes that large roaches reach houses from shrubs alongside the walls and from branches overhanging the roof. Palms get a close look too, because old fronds and leaf boots shelter white-footed ants and ghost ants alike.

  2. The water table here does not allow basements, and plumbing runs beneath the homes, so small cracks and joints in a foundation are the usual way in for subterranean termites. In communities with shared landscaping, no single yard is an island: UF notes that bigheaded ant colonies commonly extend across property lines. We treat your home and tell you plainly what the association's landscaper may need to address.

Areas We Serve Around Boca Raton

  • Old Floresta
  • Spanish Village
  • Pearl City
  • Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club
  • Camino Gardens
  • Mizner Park
  • Boca Del Mar
  • Boca West
  • Sandalfoot Cove
  • Mission Bay
  • Loggers' Run
  • West Boca Raton

Boca Raton yard looking sticky or busy?

Call (512) 561-7451 and describe the plants and pests involved; estimates are free and Boca Raton plans start at $57.

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