Harvest Season is Rodent Season, Be Ready!
Posted by Mosquito Squad
October 21, 2025
Harvest season in STL means way more than just pumpkins and sweater weather. It’s prime rodent season too. How can you be ready?
Every October, falling leaves, cooler evenings, and harvest fields make West St. Louis County feel quintessentially autumn. Add a backyard firepit and spiced apple cider with friends and you’ve got yourself the season of ideals. But behind that seasonal charm lurks a nasty threat. Rodents are quietly on the move. As fields empty and temperatures dip, mice and rats begin searching for shelter, food, and warmth. That often brings them right to your home.
This harvest season can be salvaged if you have rodents. Though your property is vulnerable to nasty mice and rats, Mosquito Squad of West St. Louis County can help you get ahead (and remain ahead) of the problem.
Why Fall Is Prime Time for Rodent Activity
The shift in food access, shelter, population swell, and availability of human-made structures all play a role in prime rodent time each autumn. The pure need to survive will bring rodents to your garage, attic, crawl space, outbuilding – or even right into your home if the timing is perfect.
You are more at risk if your property borders crop fields, of if you have barns, storage sheds, or cluttered outdoor areas.
Can’t We Just Ignore Rodents?
Out of sight, out of mind – right? Well, that cute furry creature you saw just outside your outbuilding isn’t going to cause harm anyway, right. They can stay cozy as long as they’re not inside after all. Well, there’s a problem with this theory.
If you allow rodents to enjoy the comforts of your barn, garage, or storage building, they will proliferate – and they will eventually make their way inside your home. If you give rodents an inch today, they will insist on a mile tomorrow. Not only that, but there is immense damage that can be done by rodents even inside areas other than inside your home. They will chew wiring inside walls of outbuildings and garages; build nests with insulation from the walls of your garage; eat and contaminate food sources inside your barn; chew wiring on lawn and farm equipment. The potential damage from rodents in these areas is immense!
And because there is a swell in activity now, which exposes them, now is exactly the time to act with your rodent control efforts. And our rodent bait station program is perfect for a set-it-and-forget-it year-round rodent control solution – we literally do it all for you!
Rodent Control with an STL Mosquito Control Company?
We get it! After all, we aren’t called Rodent Squad. Mosquito Squad of West St. Louis County is the STL mosquito control company you’ve trusted for years with your outdoor pest control, and now you can enjoy the same fantastic service all year long with our highly effective rodent control services in STL and throughout West St. Louis County. Mosquito Squad is not just for mosquito control anymore!
Search rodent control service and call Mosquito Squad!
Mosquito Squad of West St. Louis County will help you fight pests, including rodents, cockroaches, and more that invade our private spaces. We also treat mosquitoes, ticks, stink bugs, mosquitoes, spiders, gnats, and more!
Mosquito Squad of West St. Louis County additionally offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are not satisfied with your pest control treatment, call us within 21 days for a complimentary repeat treatment.
Call Mosquito Squad of West St. Louis County today for rodent control services near me. Get in touch with us by filling out our form online or calling us at (636) 735-7132 for a free quote.
