Davenport Pest Management

As an independently owned business in St. Louis, life is better with Davenport Pest Management's competitively-priced pest control solutions. With eco-smart pest-control plans, living in a pest-free environment is attainable and affordable. Keep your family safe and your home secure, invest in a regularly scheduled pest control plan with Davenport Pest Management. Whether providing inspections or eliminating termites, mice, spiders or ants, our expertise and professionalism are second to none. Every one of our clients is held in high regard, which is why we provide a guarantee for most of our services.

Davenport Pest Management's goal is to be the best in the world at client relationship management and development while delivering a level of service above the customer's expectations.

In our business, mice are the one structural pest that we most oftentimes see being treated the wrong way, even by professional companies. Once you open the pantry door or that kitchen sink cabinet, or notice droppings on a basement shelf, it is safe to assume that the process putting that mouse in that area where it left its evidence began long ago. We commonly hear homeowners and business owners claim that they never suspected anything until the evidence showed up. Common house mice and deer mice spend 95% of their lives in dark, unreachable, confined and virtually invisible places.

In Missouri, we have many different species of ants; Carpenter ants, acrobat ants, odorous house ants and pavement ants are the main structural pest that we run into in this category. These various species are controlled by deploying different techniques per each species. Some species are eliminated through the use of baits, while others are more adequately eliminated through routine applications. This makes the identification of the species vitally important when trying to control. Over-the-counter products have unintended consequences, such as making the problem worse or moving the issue to another area.

Moles can eat seven times their weight per day. They have extremely high metabolisms. The main course of a mole's diet is earthworms. They will eat grubs and insects, but they prefer earthworms according to a University of Minnesota study. To adequately control moles, both baiting and trapping techniques are effective. We are fond of saying a successful mole control specialist needs to have the same persistence of Bill Murray chasing the groundhog in Caddyshack.

According to the Missouri Department of Agriculture, our service area has 16 active termite colonies per acre of land. Termites were put on earth to serve as the main way to bring nutrients back to the soil. They break down dead wood, so any material that produces cellulose is a material a termite colony would be interested in. That could be a cardboard box, a wooden deck or a dead tree stump. Termites live in a centralized colony. Each member has a very specific role in its life and will never do anything other than its predetermined role.