ROANOKE, RIGHT NOW
What Is Biting in Roanoke This Month
Roanoke is two towns at once: the historic core around Oak Street, with settled soil and older buildings, and the new subdivisions spreading along TX-114 and 35W, where graded ground means fire ants and builder turf means chinch bugs. The two need different pest plans.
The Historic Core
Settled soil means fewer fire ants, but older structures have had time to develop gaps at the weep holes and thresholds. Exclusion first, then the perimeter treatment holds.
The New Subdivisions
Construction grading clears out the ant species that were holding the ground, and fire ants colonize it before anything else re-establishes. Broadcast bait early, before it becomes a July problem.
EVERY PROGRAM WE RUN HERE
Pest Services in Roanoke
Roanoke is two towns at once, and mosquito pressure follows the planting rather than the postal line: mature trees in the old core, irrigated builder landscaping out along TX-114 and I-35W. Either way the fog lands on the resting vegetation every 21 days from April through September, and Roanoke lots typically bill $59.95 or $69.95 a visit.
Home Defender puts a technician at the house four times a year to treat the walls, the eave line and 25 feet of ground out from the foundation, dusting Delta Dust into the weep holes on each visit. Downtown those weep holes matter most, because the oldest buildings have had the longest to open up; fire ants are included and the plan is $30 to $54 a month on house size.
Complete Home & Lawn Defense keeps everything Home Defender does and treats the entire yard on top of it, $40 to $73.50 a month by square footage. There is no contract, which suits anyone who wants to try a season of whole-yard coverage and decide afterwards.
Chiggers around Roanoke gather along creek corridors, greenbelt edges and the raw ground that has not been built on yet out toward 35W. Complete Home & Lawn Defense treats the yard all the way to the fence line, and Home Defender covers the 25-foot band beside the house.
The split between the two halves of Roanoke shows up most clearly in the mound count: settled soil in the old core holds native ants that crowd fire ants out, while the graded lots along TX-114 are wide open to them. Broadcast bait comes with both year-round plans, spread across the whole lawn rather than poured down the mounds you happen to see.
New builder sod on the 114 corridor is where chinch bugs start, since young St. Augustine in full sun is exactly what they want, while the older Bermuda in the core is grub and armyworm country. We do a tug test or a float test to be certain, because a chinch patch on fresh sod is easily mistaken for a sprinkler that is not reaching.
THE FIRST VISIT
What We Look At First in Roanoke
Which Roanoke You Live In
A house in the old core and a house off 35W need opposite first visits: one needs gaps found and closed, the other needs bait on ground that was bare dirt two years ago. We ask what year it was built before planning anything.
The Bottom Course of Brick
Weep holes sit just above the slab and are the most-used way into a North Texas house. We read every one of them, dust them with Delta Dust, and seal them with copper mesh, which is part of the plan rather than an add-on.
Where the Development Stops
Half-built streets and unmowed raw lots are a chigger, tick and rodent reservoir right next door. If you live on that edge, the boundary facing it gets treated first.
WHAT IT COSTS HERE
Two Roanokes, Two Price Pictures
New homes along TX-114 and I-35W usually measure 3,000 to 4,500 square feet, so Home Defender is $38 to $46 a month and Complete Home & Lawn Defense is $51.50 to $62. Older houses in the core are commonly 1,500 to 3,000 square feet, which brings those figures down to $33 to $38 and $40 to $51.50. Rodent control adds $25 a month either way.
Lot size, not house size, sets the mosquito, flea and tick number: $59.95 a visit for 7,001 to 12,000 square feet and $69.95 for 12,001 to 17,000 takes in most of the town, with larger acreage lots moving up the table. It is billed per visit on a 21-day cycle from April through September, with no contract, no signup charge and no penalty for stopping.
COVERAGE
Roanoke ZIP Codes We Service
Roanoke shares its ZIP with Trophy Club and the north edge of Keller.
Roanoke
76262
Shared with Trophy Club and parts of north Keller
New customers in Roanoke 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.
ROANOKE, SERVICE BY SERVICE
What Each Program Costs and Does in Roanoke
One page per program, written for Roanoke 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
