Milwaukie Pest Control & Exterminator Services
Old homes, two creeks and the Willamette. Rats found all three.
We love Milwaukie. The riverfront park, the old bungalows, Main Street on a Sunday. Unfortunately, pests love it too. Rats travel Johnson Creek and the Willamette, mice slip into older homes, and ants march in after every heavy rain. We help Milwaukie families get pest-free and stay that way.
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What Milwaukie families want
A great place to live. Even better pest-free.
Pests don’t just bug you. They get in your food, chew your wiring and keep you up at night listening to the ceiling.
We cover Milwaukie and the areas around it, including Oak Grove, Gladstone and Sellwood. Older bungalow or a newer apartment, we look at your place first. Then we fix the problem without treating every home the same.
What you get with Bug Zapper
The problem we solve
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Pests finding food, water and a way in.
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Bugs that come right back after the store-bought spray wears off.
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Homes that need the problem fixed now and kept from coming back.
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A 1-year guarantee with unlimited re-treatments. If they come back, so do we.
Common local pests
The pests Milwaukie families deal with most
Rats and mice keep us busiest here. Johnson Creek, Kellogg Creek and the Willamette give rats water and cover right through town, and Milwaukie’s older homes have plenty of small gaps for mice to squeeze through.
Ants
Odorous house ants march in after every heavy rain. Spray the trail and they just split up.
Moles & gophers
Your yard shouldn’t look like Swiss cheese. Wet Milwaukie lawns are mole heaven.
Spiders
Giant house spiders show up every September. We keep them outside.
Wasps
By August the yellowjackets get bold. Let us do the part that involves getting stung.
Cockroaches
German roaches travel between apartments through walls and pipes (it’s never just 1).
Fleas
They ride in on pets, raccoons and possums under the house.
Bed bugs
Mattress seams, couches and baseboards. Every room they’ve reached gets treated.
Rodents
Rats follow Johnson Creek and the Willamette into town. We seal them out, not just trap them.
Why Bug Zapper
Good people. Honest work.
No call-center scripts. No surprise upsells. Just licensed technicians who show up when we say we will, tell you what they’re seeing and fix it. Premium products, put exactly where they need to be.
Local technician
Your technician works Milwaukie and the southeast metro every day and knows what’s crawling around your neighborhood.
Pest-free promise
The goal is simple: get your home 100% pest-free as fast as possible, then keep it that way.
1-year protection
Unlimited re-treatments for a full year. If they come back, so do we.
Local pest story
Older homes have more ways in.
Many Milwaukie homes were built before 1960. Those homes have character, and they also have old foundations, crawlspace vents and small gaps that mice and rats use as front doors. Add Johnson Creek and the river, and rats never have far to go.
So we look at what’s around your home first: the creek, the age of the house, the crawlspace and how the house is built. Then we treat the spots that matter, not the whole block.
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A rat can squeeze through a hole the size of a quarter.
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A mouse can slip through a gap about as wide as a pencil.
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Crush an odorous house ant and it smells like rotten coconut.
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By late summer, one yellowjacket nest can hold thousands of workers.
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Frequently asked questions
Why do older Milwaukie homes get rats and mice?
Do you treat termites?
No, we don’t treat termites. A lot of Milwaukie “termite” calls turn out to be carpenter ants, and those we do treat. We find the nest and treat it at the source.