Pest control for homes and businesses across metro Atlanta
Max Pest Solutions treats mosquitoes at Atlanta properties on a repeating seasonal cycle, working the shaded side returns, basement wells and container water that produce them rather than fogging open air. The first step is a free quote and a walk of the property. Request a free quote.
Customized Pest Control Solutions
A wooded acre and a slab-foundation subdivision home need different work. In Atlanta we quote after walking the property rather than from a price list, so what gets applied follows what the inspection actually finds.
Call Us NowPest Control for Homes and Businesses
The same technicians handle a kitchen ant trail and a restaurant health inspection. Commercial work in Atlanta is scheduled around your trading hours and documented for auditors; residential work is scheduled around your family.
Call Us NowLong-Term Prevention and Follow-Up
Most treatments are one visit plus a check. If anything is still active when we come back to your Atlanta property, we treat it again - that return visit is part of the job, not a second call-out.
Call Us NowIntown Atlanta produces mosquitoes differently from the suburbs north of it, and the difference is drainage. Older neighbourhoods are served by street catch basins that hold a few inches of standing water between rains. That water is shaded, sheltered and undisturbed, which suits the southern house mosquito, and it sits in the public right of way rather than on anyone garden.
Lot size compounds it. On a narrow intown lot the side return between two houses stays shaded most of the day, drains slowly and collects whatever the downpipe delivers. A property can have an immaculate back garden and still produce steadily from a strip four feet wide that nobody walks down. The housing stock adds the rest: much of the intown building predates modern drainage detail, so crawlspaces, basement wells and original gutters hold water in ways newer construction does not, and with houses close together an untreated property next door carries real weight.
| What | When it comes up here | What you notice first |
|---|---|---|
| Asian tiger mosquito | Peak June to September, breeds in small containers rather than ponds | Daytime biting, often around the ankles |
| Southern house mosquito | Dusk and after dark, May through September | Evening biting on patios and around lit doorways |
| Street catch basins | Between rains, through the season | Numbers worst towards the street rather than the back garden |
| Narrow side returns | Year round where shaded and slow draining | Activity in a strip nobody walks down |
| Basement wells and original gutters | Year round on pre-war housing | Mosquitoes present even when the garden looks dry |
Most of our work in Atlanta is residential, and treatment is scheduled around your family rather than around us. Residential pest control
Commercial work is scheduled around your trading hours and documented after every visit, which is what an inspector or auditor asks for. Commercial pest control
Activity usually begins in April and builds through May as overnight temperatures hold.
June through September is the heaviest period, and treatment runs on its shortest cycle.
Shaded and wooded ground stays productive into October, later than open lots nearby.
Treatment started before the population builds does more than treatment started in response to it.
On a narrow intown lot the production is often the side return or a basement well rather than the garden. Both stay shaded and drain slowly, and neither gets looked at.
That points at catch basins in the public right of way. We cannot treat those, and saying otherwise would be dishonest, but we can concentrate the barrier on the street-facing boundary and treat what sits on your side of it.
On intown lots that matters more than it would on a large property. We work the resting sites and containers within your boundary, which is usually where your own population is produced.
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FAQ
Street catch basins hold a few inches of shaded, undisturbed water between rains, which suits the southern house mosquito. They sit in the public right of way, so nothing applied to your garden changes what they produce. What treatment does is remove the population breeding on your own ground and keep the street-facing boundary treated.
On a narrow intown lot the usual answer is the side return: a shaded strip between houses that drains slowly, collects downpipe water and never gets walked. Basement wells and original gutters do the same. None of them read as standing water when you look at the garden.
Atlanta spans Fulton and DeKalb counties, and the county environmental health department for your address is the authority for mosquito surveillance and public health reporting. Which one applies depends on the side of the city you are on. That is separate from treatment on private property, which is what we do.
The treatment is the same; the inspection is not. Pre-war housing carries basement wells, original guttering and crawlspace access that newer construction does not, and those hold water in places a standard garden walk would miss. On housing of that age we check them before anything else.
