Pest Control in El Dorado Hills, CA

El Dorado Hills pest control is a service you should be able to verify before anyone comes to the door. Apex Pest Control, Inc. holds California Structural Pest Control Board registration No. 2770, Branch 2, for general household pest control. President Jeff Alexander holds operator license No. 8484, Brent Brandon holds No. 12138, and Jared F. Alexander holds No. 14137; all three are public on the Department of Consumer Affairs lookup.

The company has been a BBB Accredited Business since November 1984 with an A+ rating, a California Pest Management Association member since 1999, and was named Best Pest Control in the 2026 Best of Times awards with 40 percent of the vote. Jeff joined Apex in 1988 after work as an industrial hygienist and holds degrees in botany and zoology and a master's degree in biology. About 99 percent of the work is single-family residential.

If you moved into a new development or a previously vacant home, the first pest season can be a surprise. Argentine and pavement ants show up with the first heat wave and again with the first heavy rain. Spiders arrive wherever outdoor lights stay on. Paper wasps find the gaps in a tile roof by midsummer. Big outdoor cockroaches settle into a cool garage. None of that means something is wrong with the house; it means the house is in the Sacramento Valley. The right response is an inspection, a clear plan and a home-specific answer, which is what the first Apex visit is.

Our Branch 2 scope covers the household pests that fill the route. Here is how they tend to show up.

Jeff prefers the words pest control and pest management to exterminator, because the visit is inspection first. Here is what it includes.

The on-going maintenance program runs bi-monthly. The first visit treats the interior where the activity is and the exterior barrier around the whole home. Follow-up visits reinforce the barrier and sweep webs; you do not need to be home, and a locked gate or a loose dog gets a note and a free reschedule. At most homes the inside needs retreating less than once a year, because interior problems between visits are covered by the guarantee.

One-time service fits fleas after a pet is gone, a move-out, or a single nest. For spiders, a one-time visit is a bandage because the webs return as the barrier fades. We tell you which fits on the phone.

Summers are warm and dry, and more than half the year's rain falls November through February. April to October is the main season: ants, spiders, fleas and outdoor roaches, with wasps building through late summer. Below 40 degrees the route goes quiet and ants become the only reliable problem, usually right after the first heavy rain. Rodents are active year round. On rainy days the technician uses a granular product around the base of the home that withstands up to four inches of rain, so winter visits still hold.

Continuing maintenance customers in good standing get return visits at no additional charge for any contracted pest problem between regular service dates, and the technician keeps returning until it is solved. Troublesome pest issues may require a supervisor's input. Technicians are state-licensed, bonded and insured, renew their licenses every three years with continuing education, and work in the long sleeves, long trousers, gloves and safety glasses California requires.

Termites and other wood-destroying organisms are Branch 3 work, outside our license; we refer you to a termite company. Bed bugs go to a heat-treatment company. Squirrels, raccoons, possums and moles need a trapper; voles are an agricultural pest outside our scope. We do not control flies or mosquitoes. Honey bees get a beekeeper first, from our referral list; a spring swarm resting in a tree will move on by itself.

We can usually quote over the phone from the square footage of the home and what you are seeing. The estimate is confirmed at the home, because the interview and the walk-around often turn up more than the caller described. We do not publish prices, because a number without seeing the home is a guess. The $90.00 new-homeowner discount is already in the quote the office gives you.

The office is open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at (916) 362-9294. El Dorado Hills shares a route group with Folsom, Orangevale and Fair Oaks; if your address is near the edge of the area, the office can confirm it in a minute. The full list of cities is on the service areas page.