Something's chewing, digging, buzzing, or scratching — and step one is knowing what it is. This is a plain-English guide to the pests and wildlife we actually get called about in Harrisburg and Central Pennsylvania, written by a licensed applicator and certified wildlife control operator who deals with them every week.
Not Sure What You Have? Text a Photo — 717-379-3248Mammals in your attic, under your shed, or through your garden. These are handled under our Pennsylvania Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator certification — a different license than pest control, and one most exterminators don't carry. Not sure what you have? Start with the wildlife ID library.

Burrows under sheds, decks, porches, and concrete pads. Big appetite for gardens, bigger appetite for undermining whatever they dig beneath.
Groundhog removal →
Scratching and scurrying overhead, usually at dawn. Gray squirrels chew their way into soffits and gable vents and nest in attic insulation.
Squirrel removal →Evening fly-outs from a gable end, droppings on the siding, one loose in a bedroom. Protected species with strict timing rules — exclusion, never extermination.
Bat removal →Heavy movement in the attic or chimney, tipped trash, torn soffits. Females with kits are the usual spring call. Rabies vector species — professional handling matters.
Wildlife services →Denning under decks and sheds, cone-shaped divots across the lawn from grub feeding. Removal is as much about the fix as the animal.
Wildlife services →Snakes, opossums, and the occasional surprise. Also dead animal removal from walls, crawl spaces, and under decks.
Wildlife services →Not an infestation — a browse problem. Stripped arborvitae, hostas, and yews, worst in winter.
Deer damage →Big black ants indoors, especially near moisture. Unlike termites they don't eat wood — they excavate it, and the sawdust piles give them away.
Carpenter ants →Perfectly round holes in fascia, deck rails, and cedar trim, with a hovering male standing guard. Damage compounds year over year.
Carpenter bee guide →The small ant trails on kitchen counters and along sidewalks. Nuisance rather than structural — but persistent without perimeter work.
Pest control →Webbing on porches, soffits, and basement corners. Mostly harmless, always unwelcome. Perimeter treatment plus removing what they eat.
Pest control →Get the ID right before anything else — honey bees are relocated alive by our family apiary, while wasps and hornets are a treatment job. Our guide to telling them apart takes about a minute to read.

Ground nests and wall voids, worst in August and September. Aggressive, and the #1 late-summer sting call in Central PA.
Yellow jacket removal →The gray football hanging in a tree or under an eave. Defensive, and not a DIY project once the nest is basketball-sized.
Stinging insects →Enormous wasps patrolling the lawn in July and August, with finger-width holes scattered through thin turf. Alarming, and almost entirely harmless — the ones that charge you can't sting.
Cicada killers →Open umbrella-shaped combs under railings, grills, and porch ceilings. Less aggressive, but the sting hurts just the same.
Stinging insects →
Live removal is what we try first here. Swarms collected free; colonies in walls and soffits removed alive and relocated to our hives.
Honey bee removal →Asian tiger mosquitoes breeding in bottle caps of water; blacklegged ticks along your tree line. Both are yard-treatable.
Mosquito & tick →The Central PA invasive everyone knows by sight. Nymphs in spring, adults swarming trunks by late summer.
Lanternfly treatment →Spongy turf that peels back like carpet, plus skunks and crows digging it up for you. Timing the treatment is everything.
Grub damage guide →Skeletonized leaves on roses, lindens, and cherries every July. The adults you see are the second half of the grub story.
Japanese beetle guide →The fall invasion — hundreds gathering on warm siding, then finding their way inside for winter.
Fall invader guide →Bagworms, aphids, scale, spider mites, needle cast, sawflies — the things quietly killing your landscape plants.
Plant problem library →We serve Dauphin, Cumberland, Lebanon, Perry, and York Counties — including:
Harrisburg, Paxtang, Penbrook, Steelton, Highspire, Middletown, Hummelstown, Hershey, Palmyra, Annville, Cleona, Lebanon, Grantville, Linglestown, Colonial Park, Susquehanna Township, Lower Paxton, Camp Hill, Mechanicsburg, Lemoyne, New Cumberland, Wormleysburg, Enola, Marysville, Halifax, Millersburg, Elizabethtown, Mount Joy, Mount Wolf, Manchester, Dillsburg, Carlisle, Boiling Springs, and surrounding Central PA communities.
Text a photo to 717-379-3248. We identify pests and wildlife from pictures every week, free — and we'll tell you honestly whether it needs treating at all.
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