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Living near Seven Lakes State Park and Holly Recreation Area means you’re sharing territory with carpenter ants, deer ticks, mice, and mosquitoes that don’t need an invitation. The wooded acreage and wetlands surrounding Newark create the kind of pest pressure that a can of spray from the hardware store simply can’t keep up with. When you have a trained professional who knows this environment, you stop reacting and start staying ahead of it.
Properties in and around Newark tend to be older, sit on larger lots, and many rely on private wells — all factors that affect how pests get in and how treatment needs to be applied. A crawlspace on a wooded lot near Belford Road is a different situation than a slab-foundation home in a suburban subdivision. The approach has to match the property, and that’s exactly how we build every program.
The result is a home that isn’t constantly under siege. No more carpenter ants showing up in the kitchen every April. No more mice finding their way in when the temperature drops in October. No more backyard that’s unusable in July because the mosquitoes from the nearby marsh make it unbearable. That’s what professional pest control in Newark actually looks like when it’s done right.
We were founded on May 31, 2005 — which means we’ve been protecting Michigan homes and businesses for two full decades. Roger, who leads the company, brings 26 years of hands-on pest control experience to every job. That’s not a number pulled from a bio — it means he was managing pest problems in the Newark area and northern Oakland County before the company even existed.
We serve both residential and commercial customers across our service area, and Newark is a community we know well. The rural character of the area — the wooded properties off Belford Road, the proximity to Holly Recreation Area, the homes on private wells — shapes how we work here. We hold IPM training certification, have earned awards from both Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor, and we offer discounts for seniors, veterans, and first responders because these are our neighbors, not just our customers.
It starts with understanding your specific property. Newark homes aren’t cookie-cutter, and neither is the pest pressure they face. Before any treatment happens, we assess what’s going on — what pests are present or likely, where they’re getting in, and what conditions on your property are making it worse. A wooded lot near the state park land has different considerations than a commercial property on a main road, and that assessment shapes everything that follows.
From there, we build a program around your actual situation. Our approach follows Integrated Pest Management principles — which means we use the least invasive, most targeted treatment that gets the job done. For properties with private wells, that matters. For households with kids and pets, that matters. We’re not applying a blanket chemical treatment and calling it a day. We’re making deliberate decisions about what goes where and why.
Once treatment is complete, you’re not left wondering if it worked. The same technician who handled your property comes back on schedule — no rotating strangers, no starting the explanation over from scratch. If pests return between visits, so does your technician. That’s how the program is built, and that’s what a service guarantee actually means in practice.
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The pest species documented in the Holly Township area — carpenter ants, deer ticks, stink bugs, Pennsylvania wood cockroaches, Norway rats, mice, and mosquitoes — are not the same lineup you’d find in a suburban subdivision in a different part of Oakland County. They’re tied to this landscape: the wetlands, the woodland edges, the older housing stock, and the proximity to thousands of acres of state-managed land. The pest control program we provide is built around that reality.
For mosquito control, flea and tick treatment is included at no extra charge — which is a meaningful benefit when you’re living near the wetland and lake habitat that surrounds Seven Lakes State Park. Most companies charge separately for that. We don’t, because if you’re dealing with mosquitoes near that kind of terrain, you’re dealing with ticks too.
We also offer certified canine bed bug detection — one of fewer than 100 companies in the entire U.S. with this service. It achieves 95 to 98 percent accuracy compared to roughly 50 percent for visual inspection alone. For Newark residents who commute along the I-75 corridor through Flint — which ranks among the top 25 worst cities in the country for bed bugs — that level of detection isn’t a luxury. It’s how you know for certain whether a problem exists before it becomes a full infestation. Every service we provide is backed by a guarantee, and we match reasonable competitors’ rates so cost doesn’t stand between you and real protection.
Carpenter ants thrive in exactly the kind of environment that surrounds Newark — wooded lots, older wooden structures, moisture from nearby wetlands and marsh areas, and the kind of tree coverage that comes with living adjacent to Holly Recreation Area and Seven Lakes State Park. The species most common in this part of Michigan, the Pennsylvania carpenter ant, doesn’t eat wood the way termites do, but it tunnels through it to build galleries, and that structural damage adds up fast if it goes unaddressed.
The problem tends to surface in spring when ants emerge from harborage sites they’ve been using inside your walls all winter. By the time you’re seeing them in your kitchen in April, the colony has often been established for a while. A professional inspection can identify where they’re nesting, what moisture conditions are attracting them, and how they’re getting in — so the treatment addresses the source, not just the ants you’re seeing on the counter.
The honest answer is that most people can’t tell for certain on their own. Bed bugs are small, they hide well, and the signs — small rust-colored spots on bedding, shed skins, or bites that look like other insect bites — are easy to misread or miss entirely. Visual inspection by a person, even a trained one, only catches bed bugs about 50 percent of the time. That’s a significant margin of error when you’re trying to determine whether you have an infestation.
Certified canine detection changes that equation. Dogs trained specifically for bed bug detection operate at 95 to 98 percent accuracy because their sense of smell identifies live bugs and viable eggs that a human inspector would walk right past. For Newark residents who travel or commute regularly through the I-75 corridor — including through Flint, which is one of the most bed-bug-affected cities in the country — getting a definitive answer before assuming you’re in the clear is worth it. If the dog finds something, you know exactly where to treat. If it doesn’t, you have real confidence that you’re dealing with a different problem.
This is a legitimate concern, and it’s one that comes up specifically in communities like Newark where municipal water isn’t the norm. Many properties in and around Holly Township rely on private wells, and the last thing you want is pesticide application near a well head handled carelessly. Michigan’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development regulates all commercial pesticide applicators in the state, and licensed professionals are required to follow label requirements that include specific setback distances and application restrictions near water sources.
What that means practically is that a certified, IPM-trained pest control professional is the right choice for a property with a well — not a DIY product applied without reading the label, and not an unlicensed operator who isn’t accountable to MDARD standards. Integrated Pest Management prioritizes the least invasive, most targeted treatment that gets the job done, which means chemicals are applied deliberately and only where necessary. That approach is better for your family, better for your well, and frankly better for the outcome of the treatment itself.
There isn’t really a quiet season in Newark — the pest calendar just rotates. Spring brings carpenter ants out of the walls where they’ve been overwintering, along with termite swarm season and the first stinging insect activity. Summer is when mosquitoes peak, which is amplified significantly by the wetland and lake habitat near Seven Lakes State Park, and deer tick activity is at its highest in June and July for anyone spending time near the wooded edges of state park land.
Fall is when rodent pressure ramps up fast. Mice and Norway rats start looking for indoor harborage as temperatures drop, and in a community bordered by thousands of acres of state-managed woodland, that pressure is real. Squirrels and other wildlife from adjacent park land will also attempt to access attics and crawlspaces in October and November. Winter doesn’t eliminate the problem — bed bugs are year-round and unaffected by cold, and rodents that got in during fall stay active. A recurring pest control program means you’re covered through all of it, not just the season when you finally noticed something.
The most straightforward difference is continuity. When you call a national franchise, you often get whoever is available — a rotating roster of technicians who don’t know your property, your pest history, or what’s already been tried. We assign the same trained professional to your account year after year. That technician knows where the carpenter ants came in last spring, where the mice found their way through in November, and what conditions on your specific property are driving the problem. That knowledge compounds over time and produces better results.
There’s also the matter of what’s actually being offered. Certified canine bed bug detection, flea and tick treatment included in the mosquito program at no extra charge, price matching for reasonable competitors’ rates, and discounts for seniors, veterans, and first responders — these aren’t standard offerings from a national company running a high-volume operation. We’ve been a family-owned Michigan business since 2005, and Roger has 26 years of hands-on experience in this region. That combination of local knowledge, service depth, and long-term accountability is genuinely different from what a national brand delivers.
Yes, absolutely. The discounts for seniors, veterans, and first responders apply across our service area, including Newark and the surrounding Holly Township communities. Holly Township has a median age of just under 41, a strong base of homeowners, and a community that includes veterans and first responders who have given a great deal to this area. Offering a discount to those groups is a straightforward acknowledgment of that — it’s not a promotional tactic, it’s just the right thing to do for the people who live and serve here.
If you’re not sure whether you qualify, the easiest thing to do is mention it when you call. There’s no complicated verification process or fine print to navigate. We’ve been serving communities in this part of Michigan for 20 years, and the people who built and protect these communities deserve straightforward, honest service at a fair price.
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