Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Plumstead Township, PA

Delaware River Lowlands, Tohickon Creek and Rural Lots

Low ground near the river and the Tohickon at Point Pleasant stays wet after storms, giving mosquitoes breeding water into early fall. Wooded slopes and hedgerows carry blacklegged ticks to the edge of lawns.

Inland, 1990s homes sit on large lots beside fields, barns and woodlots. Field mice and rats overwinter in outbuildings and move to houses, and aging decks and sills draw termites.

Point Pleasant's houses tell a different story from the township's subdivisions. Many are 19th-century stone and frame homes on narrow lots between River Road and the canal, with cellars cut close to the water table. When the Delaware rises, as it did in the floods of 2004 through 2006, those cellars take on water, and the damp that lingers feeds camel crickets, centipedes and termites in old sills.

Up the hill, the Tohickon gorge and the woods of Ralph Stover State Park and Tohickon Valley Park bring steep, shaded terrain right up to back lots, so carpenter ants, ticks and mice have continuous cover to the foundation. Wells, septic fields and long gravel driveways are common inland, and horse barns and firewood stacks add rodent shelter within a short run of the house. Homes on those wooded slopes also collect more stink bugs and lady beetles under the eaves each fall than open-field houses do.

Planning a Visit to Plumstead from Media

We take the Turnpike east to Route 611 and follow it north past Doylestown, about 70 minutes to the township and longer to the river. Because of that distance, we book Plumstead appointments ahead and plan the inspection to cover the yard and any outbuildings. You pay nothing for that inspection, and Thom and his team put their quote in writing.

Plumsteadville, Point Pleasant and the Delaware Canal

Plumstead includes Plumsteadville along Route 611 and the river village of Point Pleasant, where the Delaware Canal towpath runs beside the river. It borders Buckingham Township to the south. Route 611 is the township's main north–south road, passing Danboro, Gardenville and Plumsteadville, while Point Pleasant Pike leads east from Route 611 down to the river. At Point Pleasant, River Road (Route 32) follows the Delaware, with the canal towpath on one side and river outfitters and old houses close by. Ralph Stover State Park and Tohickon Valley Park, a Bucks County park, line the Tohickon gorge, where the High Rocks cliffs overlook the creek. Plumstead is part of the Central Bucks School District, which follows Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002 rules for integrated pest management plans and notice before pesticide applications. Preserved farms and horse properties fill much of the township between those anchors.