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Pest Exterminator Services in Rochester, NY
Optimum Pest Pros handles pest problems in homes, rental properties, restaurants and food plants across the Rochester area. Owner Jeff has run the company for more than ten years, and the method has not changed in that time. Inspect first, identify what is actually there, then treat that pest at the place it is living rather than spraying a perimeter and hoping.
That sequence is the whole difference between a treatment that holds and one that buys you three weeks. It is also why the first visit takes longer than you might expect.
Call 585-710-2364 or request a callback for a free quote.
Who Are We?
Optimum Pest Pros is a local family-owned full-service pest and vegetation management company.
Choosing a pest exterminator is mostly a question of what happens before anything gets applied. Two companies can use the identical product on the identical problem and get completely different outcomes, because the part that decides the result is the inspection. Finding the harborage, the entry point and the moisture or food source holding the population in place is the work. The application is just the last ten minutes of it.
In practice that looks like following a carpenter ant trail in a Brighton kitchen back to a wet sill or a leaking window frame, instead of treating the counter where you saw them. It looks like finding the gap along an Irondequoit foundation that a mouse squeezed through, because mice do not chew their way in when there is already an opening the width of a pencil. In a commercial kitchen it means pulling equipment away from the wall, because German cockroaches live in the warm, tight spaces behind and under it, not out on the floor where they are visible.
Optimum is licensed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for 7F pest control operations, the certification New York requires for commercial pesticide application. Everything applied on your property goes down under that license and according to its label. The labels for the products in use are published on this site, so you can read exactly what was used before anyone asks you to sign for it.
The other thing worth knowing up front is that not every pest problem needs a pesticide. Wildlife in an attic is a carpentry problem once the animal is out. A recurring drain fly issue is a sanitation problem. Saying so costs a sale and saves you a repeat visit, and that trade has worked out fine over ten years.
How can we help you?
General Pest Control
Ants, spiders, stink bugs, boxelder bugs, cluster flies and the seasonal invaders that move through Western New York on a fairly reliable schedule. Carpenter ants get treated as a moisture problem as much as an insect problem, because in this region they almost always are. Where wood stays damp, they follow.
Bed Bug Treatment
Two approaches, chosen by the situation rather than by preference. Aprehend is a biopesticide built on a natural fungal spore, applied in thin bands across the paths bed bugs travel. They pick it up walking, carry it back into the harborage and pass it to the ones you never see, which is how it reaches a population hiding somewhere you did not find. Heat treatment takes the whole room above the lethal threshold and kills every life stage, eggs included, in a single visit.
Heat ends an active infestation fastest and is the right call when you need the room back tomorrow. Aprehend keeps working for months after the visit, which makes it the better fit for apartment buildings, student housing and hotels where the real risk is something walking back in. The two are frequently used together, heat to clear what is there and Aprehend to hold the line afterward.
Commercial and Food Industry Pest Control
Restaurants, groceries, warehouses and food processing plants that have an audit coming. Optimum holds AIB certification for food industry audit compliance and SQF Level 3 certification, and the program is documented to meet BRC, CGMP, Organic and USDA standards. Optimum is a member of the New York State Food Processors Association. For an audited facility the documentation is not paperwork around the service, it is part of the service.
Mosquito, Flea and Tick Control
Yard programs aimed at where these pests actually live, which is shaded humid ground cover, leaf litter, tall grass along a tree line and any standing water that holds for more than about a week. Blacklegged ticks are established across Monroe, Ontario and Wayne counties, so tick work in this region is a health measure rather than a comfort measure.
Wildlife Control
Squirrels, raccoons, bats, skunks and birds removed, and then locked out. Removal on its own is temporary, because the animal got in through a structural opening that is still open after it leaves. Bats in particular have protected roosting windows in New York, so timing matters and the exclusion has to be done in a way that does not seal an animal inside.
Cockroach Control
German cockroaches in kitchens and multi unit housing are a different problem from the larger species that wander in from outside, and they need different solutions. Telling them apart during the inspection decides which one you get, which is why identification comes before any treatment plan.
We’ll get the job done.
Describe what you are seeing and where you are seeing it. That is usually enough to narrow the likely cause before anyone arrives, and it tells us what to bring.
Call 585-710-2364 for a free quote.
Serving Rochester, Monroe County and the Finger Lakes
Rochester, Brockport, Chili, Greece, Henrietta, Irondequoit, Fairport, Pittsford and Webster, out through Victor, Canandaigua, Newark, Geneva, Seneca Falls and Batavia, and east to Auburn and Syracuse. Residential, commercial and food industry work across all of it.
