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Plantation was platted with an acre and twenty fruit trees per house, and the shade that people love is where Precision Pest Control starts its inspections. We work homes and businesses from Plantation Acres and Jacaranda to Melaleuca Isles and Midtown, with termite and pest inspections for sales. Roof rats, subterranean termites in houses and live trees, fire ants and Florida woods cockroaches lead the service list.
What Precision Pest Control offers
Pest control in Plantation starts by looking up, because the shade that people love also gives rats and termites a route to the roof. We look after houses and businesses across the city's large lots. Plans are priced from $57, the estimate is free and eco-friendly products are used.
Large shaded lots get a check of branches touching or hanging over the roof, trunks and stumps for termite activity, and ground-level wood contact, with plain notes on what we find.
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Plans for Plantation offices, shops and restaurants, including Midtown, with attention to landscaping, trees near the roofline, trash areas and building edges where rodents and roaches enter.
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Termite and pest inspections for Plantation sales, including large lots with mature trees, so buyers, sellers and agents see the roofline and wood findings before closing.
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Tell us what you are seeing and where. We will recommend a plan for your home or business, with service plans from $57.
What we treat
Roof Rats, Tree Termites and Whiteflies Under Plantation's Canopy
Roof rats
A UF/IFAS entomologist puts the roof rat on his list of eight invasive species that hit Florida households hardest, and its other names explain why it suits Plantation: citrus rat, fruit rat and palm rat. Roof rats are skilled climbers found mainly in trees and the upper levels of buildings, and fruit is their favorite food. Extension advice is to keep limbs from overhanging the roof, close gaps with hardware cloth or steel mesh, and rely on snap traps.
Subterranean termites in trees
Formosan subterranean termites do not stop at houses. University of Florida entomologists note that they also infest live trees, feeding on the dead wood at the center and hollowing out the trunk. Foragers have been tracked as far as 100 meters through the soil, so a hollowed tree on a large lot can be the source of mud tubes on the house. UF's advice for termites found in a tree is to call an experienced company, not to treat it yourself.
Red imported fire ants
Lawns and open ground are where red imported fire ants build. Mounds are seldom wider than 18 inches, and colonies also settle under patio slabs, along the edges of sidewalks and in electrical boxes. A typical colony holds about 80,000 workers, and a sting usually raises a white pustule within a day. Bait beats drenching or dusting a mound, UF finds, because workers feed it to the queen and brood.
Florida woods cockroaches
The roach most deserving of the palmetto bug nickname is Eurycotis floridana, the Florida woods cockroach. It is a slow species 1.2 to 1.6 inches long that lacks working wings and sprays a smelly, oily secretion when disturbed. It lives in tree cavities and stumps, under bark, in leaf litter, woodpiles and densely shaded shrubs. UF reports it does not commonly colonize the inside of buildings and usually comes in on something carried, such as firewood.
Local advice
Spirals of white wax beneath the leaves point to the rugose spiraling whitefly, which Miami-Dade County first recorded in 2009 and which has since done heavy damage in Broward. Palms, gumbo limbo, avocado, black olive and mango lead UF's list of hosts. The insects drip sticky honeydew that turns black with sooty mold, coats cars, patios and outdoor furniture, and can clog pool filters. UF's main controls are systemic insecticides, delivered through the soil or the trunk, and natural enemies.
Spotted something?
UF's Fort Lauderdale termite lab calls March to June the period when termite activity is most visible and a good time for a checkup. Formosan termite flights run from early April into late June, start soon after the sun sets and are heaviest in May. The next morning, look for dropped wings around windows and moldings.
August is Plantation's hottest month, with an average high of 90 degrees. After heavy rain, fire ant colonies may move to higher ground or into houses to escape saturated soil. Water left in garbage cans, buckets, pool covers and flowerpots breeds mosquitoes, so the Florida Department of Health's drain and cover routine matters most now.
January lows average 57 degrees, mild enough that nothing goes dormant. Roof rats are nocturnal and will eat fruit still hanging on the tree, so backyard citrus and mangoes left unpicked keep them fed. Harvest what is ripe, clear what falls, and cut back the limbs that reach over the roof.
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 Plantation? Call (512) 561-7451 or request a free estimate.
Yes. UF/IFAS notes that roof rats are also known as citrus rats, fruit rats and palm rats, and Plantation's fruit trees and heavy canopy suit them. Trimming limbs off the roof, sealing gaps with steel mesh and setting snap traps are the steps Extension agents recommend.
They can. Formosan subterranean termites infest live trees and hollow the trunk from the center, and UF researchers warn that active colonies leave trees vulnerable to high winds. If you find mud tubes or soil packed into a trunk or stump, have a sample identified; UF's Fort Lauderdale research center runs a termite identification service.
The likely cause is the rugose spiraling whitefly. This insect lays its eggs in spirals on the underside of leaves and covers them in heavy white wax, and the sticky honeydew it drops turns black with sooty mold on whatever sits below. For tall trees the usual answer is a systemic product put into the soil or the trunk.
Use bait. UF finds that workers carry bait to the queen and brood, which beats drenching or dusting a single mound. Mounds are seldom wider than 18 inches, and a typical colony holds about 80,000 workers. Keep children and pets away, and see a doctor if a sting causes trouble breathing.
Plantation plans start at $57. Lot size, tree cover and the pests we find shape the price, which the free estimate states clearly. Ask through our website or at (512) 561-7451. Products are eco-friendly, a plus where children and pets spend time.
Yes. We handle offices, shops, restaurants and other commercial properties. Because trees beside a building are a route indoors for rats and American cockroaches, we check branches, trunks and landscaping at the roofline along with drains and trash areas. Then we explain what we recommend for the property.
Usually. Formosan termites can infest live trees, and foragers have been tracked as far as 100 meters through the soil, so a hollowed tree can be the source of tubes on the house. Our inspection looks at trees, stumps and wood, and records everything we find.
Plantation's first houses each came with a full acre and a 20-tree orchard, and the city has carried Tree City status since 1980. The shade is why people move here. It also explains most of the pest calls.
Plantation takes its name from the Everglades Plantation Company, which tried and failed to grow rice on ground that was once Everglades marsh under two to three feet of water. Frederick C. Peters later bought 10,000 acres, and the first houses went up on East Acre Drive in 1947, each sold with an acre and twenty fruit trees. The city incorporated in 1953 and had 91,750 residents in the 2020 census.
Trees have shaped it ever since. The Arbor Day Foundation first named Plantation a Tree City in 1980, and Plantation Acres is zoned a Special Public Interest Rural District to protect its natural landscape. Big lots, old shade trees and backyard fruit put food and cover for wildlife and insects right at the roofline, so our inspections here begin by looking up.
Local field notes
What our technicians check first on a Plantation property
Unique to Plantation
Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Plantation details that shape every plan we write here.
A large shaded lot hides more than a small sunny one. We check where branches touch or hang over the roof, because UF names trees and shrubs beside a building as a route indoors for American cockroaches as well as rats. We also look over trunks and stumps for termite activity.
At ground level, UF's termite guidance is to eliminate wood-to-ground contact and to install gutters that carry water away from the house. We describe what we find in plain terms, use eco-friendly products where children, pets and horses spend time, and give free estimates for homes, businesses and real estate transactions.
Start with a free estimate on our website or book a visit there; Plantation plans start at $57, and you can reach us at (512) 561-7451.
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