Pest Control in Day, FL

Pest Control in Day, FL

Day is a quiet rural community in Lafayette County, surrounded by farmland and woods. Florida Bug Control provides residential and commercial pest control for homes and businesses in and around Day.

Pest Issues That Come With Rural Life in Day

Day is a small farming community in Lafayette County, where most properties combine a home with pasture, a hay barn and some livestock, all surrounded by pine woods. Mayo, the county seat, is the nearest town, and the Suwannee River runs along the county’s eastern side. On land like this, the biggest pest pressure comes from the animals and their feed. Round bales and sacked feed stored in barns give rats food and nesting material all year, and once a colony is established in the barn, the house is only a short trip away.

In the warm, wet months, manure, wet hay and spilled grain around feeders become breeding sites for stable flies and house flies, and gnats swarm around the eyes of horses, cattle and people working outside. Water troughs and old tires that collect rain add mosquitoes to the mix in summer. The fly and gnat season usually builds in late spring and stays heavy until the first cool weather in fall, which is also when rats start pushing harder into barns and sheds.

Serving Day and the Surrounding Farm Country

We serve homes and farms in and around Day and throughout Lafayette County, including Mayo. We also cover the Suwannee River communities of Dowling Park and Branford, plus Live Oak. Our Madison office is one county to the north.

Barn and Pasture Habits That Cut Down Pests

• Clean out stalls and feeding areas at least weekly and spread or compost manure away from the barn.
• Store grain in metal bins and sweep up spilled feed every day.
• Stack hay on pallets with a gap from the walls so you can check for rat burrows and droppings.
• Dump and scrub water troughs every week or two during the rainy season.

Rivers, springs, farmland and wooded lots make this part of North Florida a busy place for pests. Fire ants build mounds in yards and pastures, mosquitoes breed near the river and low ground after rain, ticks wait in tall grass and woods, and mice and rats move into homes and barns when nights turn cool.

Common Pests in Day

• Fire ants: mounds in lawns, pastures and along driveways
• Cockroaches: American and smokybrown roaches moving in from woodpiles and mulch
• Mosquitoes: breeding near the river, ponds and standing water after rain
• Ticks: in tall grass, wooded lots and pastures
• Mice: and rats in homes, sheds and barns, especially in fall and winter
• Spiders: including black widows in sheds, woodpiles and outbuildings
• Wasps: nesting under eaves, porches and barn roofs