First Frost Sends Everything Toward Your Foundation
The first night in the 30s, usually late September here, mice start testing every gap bigger than a dime. Boxelder bugs and Asian lady beetles are already stacking on south-facing siding by then. October sealing beats January trapping, and it isn’t close.
- The 30-minute walk-around: garage-door corners, utility penetrations, foundation gaps, the AC-line hole
- Exclusion with materials that last: copper mesh, hardware cloth over vents, new door sweeps
- Exterior treatment timed for boxelder bug and lady beetle staging on warm walls
- Interior check for the fall movers already inside, like crickets and wolf spiders
- Licensed, bonded & insured
- Free inspections
- Same-day service
- Re-service guarantee
- Eco-friendly methods
Why late September is the whole ballgame
A narrow window
Between Labor Day and the first hard frost, exclusion keeps pests outside. Miss it and the same work becomes an eviction instead of a lockout.
Sealing beats spraying
A quarter-inch gap under the garage door will defeat any amount of product. Fix the hole and the chemistry becomes backup.
Mouse math
Two mice in October can be a couple hundred by March. Blocking the entry point in fall is the cheapest rodent work you’ll ever pay for.
The Ankora guarantee
The walk-around itself is a free inspection, and you’ll see us point at every gap whether or not you have us seal it. Anything we treat carries the re-treat promise: covered pests that push through before winter’s out bring us back at no charge.
- Same-dayscheduling available
- $0re-service between visits
- 25+Twin Cities communities
- Freeinspections, always
Questions people ask before booking
Mid-September through mid-October is the sweet spot for the Twin Cities, after summer insects taper and before sustained overnight frost. Later still works, but if mice have already moved in, the job shifts from sealing to trapping first, which takes longer and costs more.
No, and I won’t pretend it will. They land on warm siding by the thousands in October; sealing plus a well-timed exterior treatment cuts what gets inside by a large margin, but a sunny January afternoon can still wake a few in your window frames. Expect a big drop, not zero.
They ride the same weather and use the same gaps, so the seal-up handles most of that fall wave. The caveat is anything already established inside, like cellar spiders in a damp corner, which needs interior work on top of exclusion. A dehumidifier down there helps more than people expect.
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