Pest Control in Trumbull, Connecticut

Trumbull sits southwest of Shelton, with neighborhoods like Nichols, Long Hill and Trumbull Center. It's rolling and suburban, with the Pequonnock River cutting a wooded valley north to south through town. State park land and town parks follow the river, so a good many neighborhoods back onto a strip of woods even where the street feels built up.

Most homes are postwar capes, ranches, split-levels and colonials on block or poured foundations, with attached garages and finished lower levels, and larger newer homes on the north side. The wooded corridors mean deer, ticks and mosquitoes, and all those basements mean mice in the fall. Trumbull runs right up against Shelton's Huntington section, and the same companies tend to work both.

Backing onto the Pequonnock

Yards along the Pequonnock valley see a bit more of everything: ticks in the leaf litter, mosquitoes near the wet spots and carpenter ants coming in from fallen trees. Deer use the river corridor as a highway, so even homes in tidy subdivisions near Pequonnock River Valley State Park or Twin Brooks Park can pick up ticks along the back fence. Tick and mosquito treatment along the parkland edge starts there.

Yellow jackets nest in the ground along those wooded edges in late summer too. If you see steady traffic in and out of one hole near a path or the play set, keep the kids and the dog clear and call before you mow that stretch again.

Where the garage meets the lower level

Postwar block foundations often have gaps at the sill and around the pipes, and an attached garage adds another way in. Raised ranches and split-levels have a weak spot all their own, the seam where the garage meets the lower level, and mice follow that line indoors every fall. Check the weatherstripping on the door between the garage and the house, and keep pet food and birdseed out of the garage. Mouse control with sealing in late summer keeps them from settling in.

Finished basements make trouble harder to spot. Mice can live above a drop ceiling for weeks before anyone finds droppings, so if you hear scratching or notice a musty smell, mention it when you call so the tech can plan for access panels. Spring sometimes brings a termite swarm in the older neighborhoods, and termite treatment for block foundations comes up now and then. For the ant-or-termite question, see our guide to carpenter ants and termites. Trumbull borders Stratford toward the shore.

Around Trumbull: Pequonnock River Valley State Park · Twin Brooks Park · Trumbull Center · Nichols · Long Hill (ZIP 06611)

Also serving Downtown Shelton, Huntington, White Hills, Derby, Ansonia, Seymour, Monroe, Stratford, Oxford.