Pest Control in Lewiston, Maine

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Lewiston is where this business is based. Nearly 39,000 people, just over 16,000 households, and a housing stock that runs from mill-era multi-unit buildings through to post-war single-family homes on the edges.

What that housing produces

Roughly half of Lewiston’s occupied homes are owner-occupied, which means the other half are rentals — and rental buildings change how pest work has to be organized. Cockroaches and bed bugs move between units through wall voids and pipe chases; a landlord who treats only the unit that complained pays for the same job again a few months later.

In the older single-family stock the pattern is different: carpenter ants in sills and window framing where water has been getting in, and mice entering low at the foundation and traveling up inside the walls.

The buildings, counted

The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates) puts the figures behind that description. Of Lewiston’s 17,105 housing units, only 7,416 — 43.4% — are detached houses. Another 3,704 are in two-to-four-unit buildings, and 3,125 more sit in buildings of five to nine units, which on its own is 18.3% of the city’s housing and a far larger share than in Auburn, Augusta or Waterville. Add the bigger apartment buildings and 51.2% of all Lewiston housing units share a structure with at least one other household.

Age compounds it. The same survey dates 5,410 units, or 31.6%, to 1939 or earlier, and a further 2,375 to the 1960s. A pre-war apartment building has had more than eighty years of plumbing, heating and wiring changes run through its floors, and every one of those runs is a corridor between apartments for a German cockroach or a bed bug.

What a Lewiston building inspection needs

If you own or manage a building here, the inspection goes faster and the result lasts longer when a few things are ready on the day:

• A list of units, with which ones share a wall, ceiling, floor or plumbing stack with the unit that reported the problem
• Access arranged for those connecting units, not only the one with the complaint
• Any history: earlier treatments, who did them, and roughly when
• The basement and any shared storage or laundry space unlocked
• Somewhere to note units that could not be entered, so they are re-booked rather than forgotten

The bed bug and cockroach control pages explain the treatment rounds in detail.

Carpenter ants here

It is a common spring call, and one people often half-solve with a spray. Large black ants moving inside a Lewiston house in February are unlikely to be visitors — in a Maine winter they usually point to a colony inside the building. They are living in the structure, usually in wood that a gutter, a window seal or an old roof leak has softened.

We did exactly that job in this city: the customer called about carpenter ants, we located the area they were working in, treated it, and the ants were gone. The part that matters afterwards is the moisture note in the report, because that is what decides whether the next colony finds the same conditions.

Rodents here

Older foundations, attached garages and mature trees close to rooflines give mice several ways in. The sealing survey covers:

• The sill line and any gap where the frame meets the foundation
• The bulkhead and crawlspace vents
• Utility penetrations — water service, electrical entry, dryer vent, hose bibs
• Garage door bottom and side seals, and the door into the house
• The roofline, particularly soffit returns left open inside the boxed corner

Exclusion is quoted separately from trapping, itemized opening by opening, so you can compare it against anyone else’s quote line by line.

Ticks inside city limits

Ticks are not only a rural problem: a city lot with a wooded or overgrown boundary can hold them too. UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Tick Lab has tested 32 ticks sent in from Lewiston: 12 (37.5%) carried the Lyme bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and five (15.6%) carried Babesia, the parasite behind babesiosis. It is a small set of ticks that people chose to submit, so it shows what is present rather than how common it is. Of the seven towns on this site, Lewiston’s submissions had the highest Babesia share, though with only 32 ticks tested a couple of results either way would change that ranking.

For the county as a whole, Maine CDC’s 2024 tickborne illness report counted 45 anaplasmosis cases among Androscoggin residents (39.0 per 100,000) alongside 153 cases of Lyme disease — both well under the state’s per-capita rates for the year, but present every season. Yard treatment is covered on the tick control page.

Working in the Lewiston–Auburn corridor

The two cities share a housing market, a river and a set of pest pressures, and we work both sides of it daily. If your address is in Auburn, see pest control in Auburn.

Free residential inspections and quotes. Commercial inspections carry a fee that varies with the property and is credited toward the work if you proceed. Call or text Ryan Blouin at 207-740-4441.

Services available in Lewiston

• Rodent Control
• Ant Control
• Tick Control
• Mosquito Control
• Cockroach Control
• Bed Bug Control
• Residential Pest Control
• Commercial Pest Control
• Wasp, Hornet and Carpenter Bee Control
• Carpenter Ant Control
• Rodent Exclusion and Entry-Point Sealing
• Attic Clean-Outs, Insulation and Sanitation
• Flea Control

Updated 2026-10-02. Androscoggin County — other towns we cover.