Residential Pest Control in San Leandro, CA

Local Context

There Are Four San Leandros, and Your Address Decides Which Pests You Get

Down on the flats — Marina Faire, Mulford Gardens, Heron Bay and the blocks off Marina Boulevard — the ground sits low and damp beside the Oyster Bay marsh and the Bay shoreline. That produces Norway rats out of the storm drains and creek banks, subterranean termites (Reticulitermes) working up to reach framing, and sub-area moisture that brings wood-decay fungi and dampwood termites with it.

Through the central tracts — Washington Manor, Broadmoor, Best Manor, Floresta Gardens, Cherrywood — the housing itself is the story. Built between 1940 and 1965 with stucco walls, attached garages and low-pitch roofs with wide overhangs, these homes have weep screeds, hose-bib penetrations and worn garage door sweeps that Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) find, and eave lines that roof rats run and drywood termites (Incisitermes minor) fly into. The canopy left from the cherry orchard era connects one roof to the next.

Up in the foothills — Bay-O-Vista, Halcyon-Foothill, Assumption Parish, Sheffield Village — the lots sit above the marine layer against the eucalyptus and oak of the hillside running up to Lake Chabot. Warmer, drier, built with retaining walls, stepped foundations and decks, they produce western black widows (Latrodectus hesperus), ground-nesting yellowjackets and wildlife-carried fleas. And in the old core near East 14th Street and Estudillo Avenue, the pre-war Craftsman and Colonial Revival houses on raised foundations bring a sub-area list of their own.