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In the old Citrus City, from Ridgecrest toward the Intracoastal side, Precision Pest Control gives close-set homes, condominiums and businesses pest control in Largo that accounts for shared fences and walls. We treat roof rats, drywood and subterranean termites, ghost ants and bed bugs, and inspect homes for sale across Pinellas County.
What Precision Pest Control offers
Pest control in Largo has to work where houses stand close together. We serve owners, renters, property managers and businesses near Largo Central Park and Allen's Creek. The first Largo estimate costs nothing, we choose eco-friendly products, and a plan can cost as little as $57.
Roofline and attic work for rats, drywood checks for houses with older furniture or lumber, and ghost ant treatment in kitchens and bathrooms, planned with neighboring yards in mind.
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Plans for apartment and condo communities, restaurants and offices, where shared walls and plumbing let cockroaches and bed bugs move between units.
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Before a Largo sale, our inspection examines slab edges, porch steps and mulch-buried siding, so both parties and their agents work from the same notes.
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What we treat
Largo Pest Guide: Roof Rats, Drywood Termites and Ghost Ants
Roof rats
Citrus rat is one of the roof rat's common names, a fitting one for the old Citrus City. According to UF/IFAS this is the rat of Florida suburbs: it raids fruit, ruins stored food and nests in attics, soffits and hollow walls. Where lots are small, rats fed in one yard can den under the next roof. Pick ripe fruit, bring pet food in at night and have roofline gaps closed with steel mesh.
West Indian drywood termites
Drywood colonies need no soil at all, which lets them arrive inside a secondhand dresser or a load of reclaimed lumber. The University of Florida's termite map carries a string of Cryptotermes brevis records around Largo. Winged adults leave the wood from April to June, shed their wings and pair off to start new nests in cracks, holes and knots. Hard six-sided pellets collecting on a sill or shelf are the classic evidence.
Subterranean termites
Both the native eastern subterranean termite and the invasive Formosan species have been collected around Largo and logged on the university's map. They need moisture, so the usual trouble spots are where wood meets damp soil: porch steps, fence posts fastened to the house, and siding buried by mulch. UF/IFAS advises directing air-conditioner drain lines and downspouts away from the foundation and keeping anything that holds water two feet from the wall.
Ghost ants
UF/IFAS rates the ghost ant as one of Florida's most important household ant pests and common across the central and southern parts of the state. Workers are about 1.5 millimeters long with a dark head and a milky white abdomen and legs. They trail to sweets on kitchen and bathroom counters and nest in wall voids, behind baseboards, in potted plants and at the base of palm fronds.
Bed bugs
In buildings where homes share walls, bed bugs rarely stay in one unit. UF/IFAS notes that once established they spread from room to room and into adjacent units, and that they arrive on luggage, clothing, bedding and furniture. Not everyone reacts to the bites, so an infestation can grow unnoticed. Their bites are not linked to any disease. One study the university cites found store-bought foggers ineffective.
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Winters are drier than the rest of the year and run warmer on the Pinellas peninsula than on the mainland, thanks to the Gulf and Tampa Bay. Insects keep working through them. Native subterranean termites swarm on sunny afternoons between January and April.
Drywood termites and Formosan termites both swarm now, the first from wood inside buildings and the second from the soil after sunset. Florida carpenter ants also send winged reproductives into homes. Collect whatever you find on the windowsill; winged ants and winged termites call for very different treatment.
Most of Largo's rain arrives in summer, when the sea breeze carries Gulf moisture inland. The flood-prone McKay Creek basin and ordinary yard containers both hold water. Pinellas County Mosquito Control serves every city in the county, and it adds that the harmless midges clustering on walls are most common from April through November.
Describe it on the phone and we will tell you what it likely is and how we would treat it. Estimates are free.
7 questions answered
Looking for pest control near you in Largo? Call (512) 561-7451 or request a free estimate.
Yes. UF/IFAS describes the roof rat as the primary suburban pest rat in Florida, and one of its nicknames is citrus rat. Signs include droppings, gnaw marks on wood, plastic and wiring, greasy smudges where the rats run along pipes and beams, and noise in the ceiling at night. Trapping works once the entry holes are sealed.
Most likely the ghost ant. The dark head and milky white abdomen make the tiny workers hard to see, and they run fast and erratically when disturbed. Crushed workers give off an odor UF/IFAS compares to rotten coconut. UF/IFAS says colonies nesting in indoor voids can be controlled with baits; check a bait after a day or two and move it if the ants are not feeding.
Pinellas County Mosquito Control covers the whole county, including all 24 municipalities, so Largo residents request service from the county. Its crews focus on treating larvae with mosquito-specific bacteria before they become biting adults, and they deliver mosquitofish to homes on request. Fogging is decided by surveillance data, never by request.
A condo with ants differs from a house with rats in the attic, so the figure depends on home or unit size, shared walls and the pest. Largo plans begin at $57, and estimates cost nothing. Phone (512) 561-7451 with questions about your street or reach out through the website.
Yes, our commercial and residential plans cover multi-unit buildings. Where homes share a wall, cockroaches follow the plumbing and bed bugs move into adjacent units, so we ask about neighboring spaces and common areas. Property managers can describe the layout when they ask for an estimate.
Yes. The University of Florida's map shows drywood, eastern subterranean and Formosan termite records around Largo, and the signs are easy to miss. Our inspection checks porch steps, fence posts tied to the house and siding buried by mulch, and helps both sides of the sale.
Use our website to ask for an estimate, or ring (512) 561-7451 and describe what you have seen. We ask where you live, what the building is like and where the pests show up, then recommend a plan with eco-friendly products. Booking a visit can also be done online.
Largo packed and shipped citrus for decades before houses replaced the groves, and it now sits in the middle of Florida's most densely populated county. Homes stand close together, so pests cross fence lines easily.
Largo is the third largest city in Pinellas County. The 2020 census counted 82,485 residents, more than a quarter of them 65 or older. It was incorporated in 1905 beside Lake Largo, which was drained in 1916; the old lake bed is now Largo Central Park Nature Preserve. For decades the economy ran on citrus groves, cattle ranches and packing plants, and the town was remembered as Citrus City long after postwar growth turned it into a bedroom community.
Today Largo touches the Intracoastal Waterway on the southwest and Tampa Bay on the northeast and rises from sea level to about 69 feet. Allen's Creek and McKay Creek drain it, and the McKay Creek basin is prone to flooding. The Pinellas County office of UF/IFAS Extension, the source for much of the pest science below, sits in Largo at Pinewood Cultural Park.
Local field notes
What our technicians check first on a Largo property
Unique to Largo
Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Largo details that shape every plan we write here.
Density changes how pest work gets done. UF/IFAS warns that in dwellings separated by a common wall, cockroaches move between units along the plumbing, so holes around pipes should be caulked. Bed bugs reach adjacent units too. If the yard has fruit trees, UF/IFAS Extension advice is to remove ripe and fallen fruit promptly and never leave pet food outside overnight, because roof rats are climbers that feed on both.
Moisture is the second theme. In the lower parts of the city, keep soil and mulch six inches below the siding, clear gutters before the summer rains and flush bromeliads weekly so they do not raise mosquitoes. We inspect from the roofline down, use eco-friendly products and explain what we found and what we recommend.
Largo homeowners can ask Precision Pest Control for a free estimate on our website, or talk with us at (512) 561-7451 about a plan starting at $57.
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