Since 1926, Sprague Pest Solutions has been the top name in commercial pest control in Portland, Oregon. We are proud to offer the most effective and environmentally friendly pest control possible.
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Sprague offers an array of in-person and virtual training and education options for commercial clients. From pest identification and exclusion strategies to practice audits, the technical team at Sprague is ready to help design and deliver practical, easy to manage training and education programs for your company.
See a few ants? Assume there are more. Only 10% of an ant colony is visible at any given time. Ants live in colonies, and it almost always takes an expert to track them to their source and eliminate the threat.
Spiders
Get rid of unsightly webbing and keep aggressive house spiders, hobo spiders, and black widow spiders out of your business. Sprague delivers both on-the-spot and ongoing solutions to proactively get rid of troublesome spiders and keep them from coming back.
Termites
Unlike termites that eat wood, carpenter ants and bees bore through it to create nests, causing cosmetic and potentially structural damage to your property.
Bed Bugs
No space is sacred. Bed bugs will thrive wherever people gather. This makes bed bugs one of the biggest bugaboos at work and home. And even one isolated incident, combined with the power of social media, can wreak havoc on a business and live on long after the problem has been solved.
Fleas
Pigeons carry secondary pests, making matters even worse if they are inside or roosting outside your doors. Mites, ticks and fleas live on pigeons and in their nests.
Cockroaches
Insects multiply quickly, especially cockroaches. German cockroaches can lay about 40 eggs every 20 days! That means a single pair of cockroaches can turn into 1,600 within a month and a half. The best advice we can give you is: Don’t wait to call in the experts; be proactive and get ahead of their rapid breeding cycles.
Bees
You know that honey bees and other pollinators are essential to our food supply and the environment. So, if they’re buzzing around your business, learn how to protect pollinators before taking measures to eliminate them.
Wasps
We often use biological growth regulators to prevent populations from multiplying. In special situations, parasitic wasps may be used to prey on problematic insects.
Ticks
Earwigs
Scorpions may have a tough and scary exterior with their pronounced curved stinger, but they are more beneficial than is often realized. Scorpions themselves are carnivores and hunt the same insects that pose an annoyance or danger to humans. Their diet primarily consists of flies, beetles, ants, earwigs, moths, and other night fliers. As a result, we advocate for a prevention methodology, rather than elimination.
Flies
Flies never go unnoticed in a business setting. They are at best, irritating; at worst, they’re intolerable to your customers. The good news is that our pest control experts have the knowledge and solutions to get them out, keep them out and most importantly, stop them from breeding or coming back.
Beetles
Small in size, beetles can go undetected until they chew through packaging or lay eggs in raw materials, damaging stored inventory.
Scorpions
Scorpions are a desert arthropods and some prefer to build burrows in a sandy soil type. They are commonly found in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. They are singular hunters and do not travel in packs. If one scorpion is found it is highly unlikely that more are around. In contradiction to most other arthropods, scorpions are born alive and nurtured by their mother until their tough, outer cuticle fully develops.
Yellow Jackets
Moths
Stored product pests can be found in box seams, between bags, and under liners or pallets. Indian meal moths often fly near infested products.
Pantry Pests
Often known as pantry pests, moths can infest grain, dried herbs, and natural fiber clothing. Know your options for getting rid of stored food pests in grocery stores, mills, processing plants, or bulk storage facilities. Moths and beetles can wreak havoc on your food inventory by damaging products, costing you money and customers.
Stinging Insects
Dumpsters and garbage bins are a magnet for ants, flies, and stinging insects. To keep pests in check, remember to keep lids closed, have the dumpster emptied frequently, and regularly clean the interior and concrete surface beneath the dumpster to eliminate spillage and waste build up that attract pests.
What’s more, pest birds and their droppings spread more than 60 transmittable diseases, and they increase maintenance costs and liability risks.
Sparrows
Keep all doors closed, especially in areas where birds are loafing or feeding. Leaving a door open near a dumpster is an open invitation to sparrows, pigeons and other types of nuisance birds.
Starlings
Sprague’s bird control programs are built on science and innovation. We use the latest tools, technology and treatment methods to deter pigeons, starlings and sparrows from threatening your commercial facility and protect your brand, your products and your employees and customers.
Pigeons
I have worked with Sprague on many occasions for Bird Exclusion services. It was dealt with promptly after we tried to handle this on our own. My only regret was that I didn't call your company to handle this two years ago. We now have given our residents peace from the nesting pigeons. Not only did Sprague resolve this problem, but the netting that was designed for the opening was done perfectly.
Rodent management in and around urban construction sites is a challenging process. As buildings are demolished or soil is graded ahead of new construction, well-entrenched rodent colonies can be displaced, and adjacent commercial properties and neighborhood threatened by foraging rodents. This is where rodent abatement comes in.
Mice
Any complications with them could derail the reputation of your food safety program and preventive efforts. While rats and mice are undesirable, sometimes having inaccurate or incomplete records during an audit is the worst risk of all.
Rats
An effective way know whether a burrow is active is to cave the entrance in (if possible) and check back in a day or two to look for signs of activity. Rats are wary of new objects or sudden changes to their environment – this is known as “neophobia.”