Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Atglen, PA

Farm seasons around a western Chester County rail town

Spring plowing and summer growth keep mice and insects in the fields, but fall harvest and cold nights push them toward houses. Stink bugs gather on sunny walls in September.

The rail corridor and its brushy edges give rodents protected travel lanes. On 1990s houses, builder termite treatments have worn off, and termites swarm on warm spring days.

Atglen's housing comes in two layers. The old borough core near the tracks has 19th-century frame and brick houses with stone or rubble cellars, while the 1992 median reflects the subdivisions added since, with vinyl siding, poured basements and wood decks. Old cellars leak and let mice in through crumbling mortar; the newer houses have tighter shells but sit right against former crop fields.

Rail lines are also highways for spotted lanternfly. Tree-of-heaven grows thickly along tracks across southeastern Pennsylvania, and egg masses ride on rail cars and equipment, which is one reason PDA's quarantine covers all of Chester County. Add the dairy and Amish farms just over the Lancaster County line, with their barns, feed and manure, and Atglen sees steady pressure from rodents and flies as well as the usual fall invaders. About 17% of homes are rented, mostly in the older core.

Driving west from Media to Atglen

We head west through Chester County farmland to the Lancaster County line. Thom or a team member inspects the foundation, garage and attic, or a business's storage areas. Every Atglen visit starts with a free inspection and ends with a written quote.

Atglen near Parkesburg and Cochranville

Atglen sits at the western edge of Chester County beside the Lancaster County line, a short drive from Parkesburg and Cochranville. The borough grew up on the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line, today Amtrak's Keystone Corridor, and it was the eastern end of the old Atglen and Susquehanna freight branch, known as the Low Grade line, whose rail bed has been converted to trail in stretches to the west. Christiana lies just across the county line in Lancaster County, and local children attend the Octorara Area School District. Farmland surrounds the borough on most sides, with Amish farms common just over the line. Our Atglen work tracks the rail and farm setting: rodents moving along the tracks and field edges, lanternfly and stink bugs in late summer, and termite checks on both old cellars and 1990s basements.