LAKESIDE, RIGHT NOW
What Is Biting in Lakeside This Month
Lakeside is exactly what the name says: a small town of lots that run down toward Eagle Mountain Lake and back up onto wooded ground. Mosquitoes from the water, chiggers and ticks from the brush, and spiders and scorpions in the outbuildings are the standing list.
The Shoreline
Lots near the water see the mosquito season start early and run heavy. We treat the resting vegetation along the boundary, and we tell you what standing water to tip out.
Wooded Lots
Tree cover and brush at the lot line are where chiggers and ticks live, and where spiders and scorpions shelter. We treat the edge as the front line, not an afterthought.
EVERY PROGRAM WE RUN HERE
Pest Services in Lakeside
Lakeside runs down toward the south end of Eagle Mountain Lake and back up onto wooded ground, and both halves of that produce mosquitoes: water below, deep shade above. A fog of the resting cover every 21 days between April and September is the program, and a wooded Lakeside lot generally bills $59.95 or $69.95 per visit.
Four visits a year on Home Defender cover a Lakeside home's walls, eaves and the ground 25 feet outward, with Delta Dust put into the weep holes each time so the brick is not left as a free entrance. Fire ant treatment is bundled in and the rate is $30 to $54 a month, decided by how big the house is.
Complete Home & Lawn Defense pushes the treatment past the perimeter to the whole yard, which is worth having where trees and rough ground take up most of the lot, and costs $40 to $73.50 a month. There is no contract behind it at all.
Wooded Lakeside lots are chigger country, because leaf litter and low brush under tree cover is exactly the habitat they hold in. Complete Home & Lawn Defense treats the yard to the property line and Home Defender handles 25 feet out, but clearing the litter where children and dogs play changes the outcome more than any product can.
Between the shade and the shoreline, Lakeside fire ants concentrate on the sunny open patches, which usually means the front lawn and the edge of the drive. Broadcast bait over the whole lawn is included with both year-round plans, and it needs a few weeks rather than a few hours to finish a colony off.
Where enough sun reaches a Lakeside lawn you get the usual North Texas pair: grubs and armyworms in Bermuda, chinch bugs in St. Augustine along the hot edges. Under heavy canopy, though, thin turf is more often a shade problem than an insect one, and we will say so instead of selling a treatment.
THE FIRST VISIT
What We Look At First in Lakeside
Tree Line and Water Line
A Lakeside property often has both: brush and litter under the canopy on one side, open water or damp ground on the other. We work out which boundary is sending the most trouble and weight the visit toward it.
Leaf Litter Against the Slab
Under mature trees the litter piles against the foundation each autumn and stays damp right through winter. We ask for it raked back off the brick, then treat the strip that remains.
Gutters, Boats and Buckets
Anything that keeps water for seven days is a mosquito nursery, and a lakeside yard is full of candidates. We point out the ones you can empty in a couple of minutes and treat around the ones you cannot.
WHAT IT COSTS HERE
What Lakeside Homeowners Pay
Homes in Lakeside vary more than the size of the town suggests, but a 1,500 to 3,000 square foot house pays $33 to $38 a month on Home Defender and $40 to $51.50 on Complete Home & Lawn Defense. Under 1,500 square feet the figures are $30 and $40; from 3,000 to 4,500 they are $38 to $46 and $51.50 to $62. Rodent control sits on top of any of them at $25 a month.
Lot size drives the mosquito, flea and tick price: $59.95 a visit between 7,001 and 12,000 square feet, $69.95 up to 17,000 and $79.95 up to 22,000 for the larger wooded parcels. That is charged per visit on a 21-day cycle through the April to September season, with no contract, no startup fee and no cancellation fee attached to it.
COVERAGE
Lakeside ZIP Codes We Service
Lakeside splits across two ZIPs depending on which post office serves the street.
Lakeside
76135
The Lake Worth side
Lakeside
76108
The White Settlement side
New customers in Lakeside are usually on the schedule within a week of the first call. If your address sits just outside the city limits, send it over and we will tell you straight.
LAKESIDE, SERVICE BY SERVICE
What Each Program Costs and Does in Lakeside
One page per program, written for Lakeside homes: the real price bands, what the program will not do, and what we look at on the first visit.
Home Defender and Complete Home & Lawn Defense, priced by the square foot
Every 21 days, April through September, priced on your lot
Whole lawn and perimeter on the same 21-day program
The mowed edge, the leaf litter and the yard treatment
Broadcast bait across the yard, included in both plans
Chinch bugs, grubs and armyworms, and how to tell them from drought
Exclusion first, trapping second, $25 a month on either plan
