Pest Control in Androscoggin County, Maine

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Androscoggin County is where the business is based, and it is the county we know best. It is also the most settled of the counties we cover. Lewiston and Auburn face each other across the Androscoggin River, rural towns surround them, and by the Census Bureau’s count there are comparatively few camps or vacation homes. That shapes the work: the calls here come from houses people live in all year.

What the housing tells you

The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey gives a clear picture of the county’s buildings, and it explains most of the rodent and ant work we see.

A median build year of 1969 is the oldest of the five counties where we have work on record, and roughly one home in four here predates 1940. Older frame buildings settle. Sill plates shrink away from foundations, clapboard ends open up, and decades of plumbing and wiring changes leave holes that were never properly closed. Every one of those is an entry point for a mouse, and many of them are damp enough to suit carpenter ants.

The rental share — just under a third of occupied homes, by the Census Bureau’s count — matters for a different reason. Multi-unit buildings share walls, pipe chases and basements. A problem in one apartment is rarely confined to it, which is why bed bug work in a shared building is scoped across the neighboring units rather than one apartment at a time.

The city and the rest of the county

Pest pressure is not uniform across Androscoggin. In the dense neighborhoods of the two cities the work leans towards rodents moving between attached buildings, bed bugs in apartments, and carpenter ants in porches and window framing on older multi-unit buildings. Out in the rural towns the pattern shifts towards field mice coming in at the first frost, wood stored against the house, and properties that back onto woodland or overgrown field edges — the habitat deer ticks prefer.

The inspection changes with the building. On a city multi-unit it starts in the shared basement and follows the pipe runs and stairwells upwards, because that is where rodents and bed bugs travel between households. On a farmhouse or a rural ranch it starts outside: the sill line, the bulkhead, the woodpile, the shed sitting on bare soil, and the places where the lawn stops and the brush begins. Either way the report names what was found and where, so the owner can see the reasoning rather than take it on trust.

Ticks in a county that used to be low-risk

Maine CDC’s 2024 tickborne illness report counts 153 Lyme disease cases among county residents last year, a rate of 132.7 per 100,000. In 2020 the same series recorded 40 cases and a rate of 36.9. The county is still under the statewide rate of 230.0, but it is no longer the quiet exception it was. The same report lists 45 anaplasmosis and 20 babesiosis cases here in 2024.

Testing by the UMaine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab points the same way. In its 2025 report, 50 of the 131 deer ticks tested from this county — 38.2% — carried the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The lab is careful to note that those ticks were sent in by the public, so the sample is not a random survey, but 38.2% sits close to the 41.0% the lab found across all Maine submissions rather than well below it.

For a yard on the edge of woods, the practical answer is the one on our tick control page: treat the edge habitat where ticks wait for a host, and deal with the yard conditions that hold them there. The ticks in the yard page walks through what a homeowner can do between visits.

Which page covers what

• Lewiston — the base, and the city page for the east bank.
• Auburn — the west bank, with its attached-garage rodent pattern.
• Rodent control and rodent exclusion — for older houses that keep letting mice back in.
• Carpenter ant control — for damp sills, porches and window framing.
• Bed bug control — for apartments and multi-unit buildings.
• Commercial pest control — for landlords and businesses.

Response time here

Because the business works from Lewiston, Androscoggin addresses are the closest we serve. Same-day emergency service is available; call or text for the next opening. Routine work is booked around the same seven-day, nine-to-five schedule as everywhere else.

Ryan Blouin is licensed by the Maine Board of Pesticides Control, carries insurance, and does the work himself. Call or text 207-740-4441.

Services available here

• 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