Pest control plans from $57. Licensed, insured and eco-friendly.
Call Us Today at : (512) 561-7451Broward County, Florida
Weston is Broward County's westernmost city, a master-planned community whose entire western edge meets the Everglades. Lakes, landscaped common areas and houses mostly built in the 1990s give its pest problems a pattern of their own.
Weston was planned long before it was built. Industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, the first owner of Arvida, took control of about 15,000 acres here in the 1950s, and Arvida developed most of it under the name Indian Trace. The first homes were finished in 1984 in Country Isles and Windmill Ranch. Residents voted to incorporate on September 3, 1996, and the 2020 census counted 68,107 people.
The city covers about 26 square miles, roughly 1.5 of them water, at around 7 feet above sea level, with the Everglades on its north and west sides. Census survey data show about half of Weston's housing went up in the 1990s and close to two thirds of it is detached single-family homes.
Open mowed areas, sidewalks, docks and seawalls are where green iguanas like to bask. FWC, which counts Broward among the counties with established populations, says adult males can exceed five feet and reach 17 pounds. The damage that matters is underground: burrows erode and collapse berms, canal banks, seawalls, sidewalks and foundations. UF recommends filling vacant burrows with concrete and sand during the day and installing an L-shaped wire barrier to stop digging.
Living beside a lake does not automatically mean more mosquitoes. Broward County Mosquito Control notes that large lakes and canals often harbor fish, dragonflies and other predators of mosquito larvae, and that production is more likely where aquatic vegetation lines the edges or floats on the surface. The county suggests asking your city or HOA about removing that vegetation. Closer to the house, the day-biting Aedes aegypti breeds in flowerpots, tires and other objects that hold rainwater.
Heavily planted yards feed white-footed ants, which live on plant nectar and the honeydew of aphids, mealybugs and scales. A UF researcher in Fort Lauderdale put a main colony at two to three million ants, often linked to smaller satellite colonies, with nests in trees and shrubs, under palm fronds, in loose mulch, rain gutters, wall voids and attics. They do not sting or cause structural damage, but they are very difficult to control with residual sprays and ignore most traditional ant baits.
Red imported fire ants build soil mounds, seldom more than 18 inches across, in lawns, and they also nest beneath patio slabs, beside sidewalks and in electrical boxes. A mature colony can hold as many as 240,000 workers. Drenching a single mound may never reach the queen, who can be deep in the nest, so UF favors baits that the workers carry back and feed to her and the brood.
A 1990s house is not too new for termites. Formosan subterranean termite colonies need five to eight years to mature and can hold several million insects, and UF has now documented the species in all of Florida's major cities. The tropical Asian subterranean termite is established in Broward County as well and can do severe damage in a relatively short time.
Asian subterranean termites have been recorded swarming in Florida between February and April, at dusk or at night. Formosan flights come next, early April through late June, and a single one can contain tens of thousands of winged termites heading for lights. UF's advice is to watch for dropped wings around moldings and windows.
Storms refill every container in the yard, which suits Aedes mosquitoes, and saturated soil can push fire ant colonies to higher ground or indoors. Broward County sprays by truck only between midnight and 6 a.m. and only where its surveillance data support it, so prevention at yard level falls to each household: drain, cover and keep screens repaired.
Weston's tropical monsoon climate keeps winter warm. Iguanas bask in the open on sidewalks, docks and mowed banks, and a cold night can leave them stunned in the trees. It is the practical season for filling burrows, installing wire barriers and trimming the palms and shrubs where ants nest.
In a master-planned city, much of the habitat is shared. The lake behind the house, the berm, the palms along the entry road and the clubhouse hedges may belong to an association, so some fixes begin with a call to the HOA or property manager. Our commercial and real estate services cover association common areas and pre-sale inspections as well as single homes.
At the house itself we follow UF's termite checklist: gutters and splash blocks that move roof water away from the foundation, and air conditioner drain lines pointed away from the walls. We add a look at pool enclosures, palms near the roof and any burrows close to the bank. Treatments use eco-friendly products, and estimates cost nothing.
Yes. FWC says green iguanas have no legal protection in Florida beyond the anti-cruelty statutes, so a landowner, or anyone the landowner authorizes, may humanely kill them on that land year-round. Releasing one elsewhere is illegal. If the burrows are in a lake bank or berm owned by your association, report them to the HOA so removal and repair are coordinated.
Not necessarily. Broward County Mosquito Control says large lakes and canals often hold fish, dragonflies and other predators that feed on mosquito larvae. Trouble is more likely where weeds crowd the bank or float on the surface, and in containers around the house, where Aedes aegypti breeds. Empty yard containers weekly, and request a county inspection through 311 if numbers stay high.
Yes. Age is not what attracts subterranean termites. They forage through the soil, as far as 100 meters from the nest in field studies, and reach wood through mud tubes. A soil treatment applied when a house was built has a limited life, which UF puts at 2 to 15 or more years. An inspection will show whether the house needs a fresh liquid treatment or a bait system.
Ask about plans from $57 at (512) 561-7451, request a free estimate on /quote, or set a time through /schedule-pest-control-service.
Florida · 58 locations
