Pest control is not one-size-fits-all. The pests threatening your home depend heavily on where you live — your climate, local species, and seasonal patterns. Regional Pest Guide organizes pest control advice by US region to give you information that's actually relevant to where you live, not generic advice that ignores local conditions. Whether you're battling fire ants in Georgia, roof rats in California, or cluster flies in Minnesota, our guides focus on what matters in your area.
Each regional guide covers the most common pest threats in that area, seasonal activity calendars specific to local climate patterns, which species are most active in each season, and links to our detailed pest identification and control guides. Use these regional guides alongside our pest directory and blog articles for a complete picture of pest management in your area.
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We cover eight distinct US regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest, Mountain West, West Coast, and Pacific Northwest. Each region has a distinct climate, native pest species mix, and seasonal pest calendar. For example, the Southeast experiences year-round termite activity and fire ant pressure that simply doesn't exist in the Mountain West. The Midwest's freeze-thaw cycles create different overwintering pest dynamics than the consistently mild Pacific Coast. Our regional guides account for these differences and help you prioritize your pest control efforts effectively. Review our cookie policy to see how we use anonymous analytics to understand which regional guides are most useful to readers.