Adair Village lies just north of Corvallis, a small community bordered by oak woodland, farmland, and the E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area. That green edge is where the pests come from. Carpenter ants nest in the surrounding trees, stumps, and damp wood and move into structural wood a wet valley winter has softened, especially the crawl space and any sill under a failed gutter.
The wildlife area and farmland make Adair Village a rodent-pressured spot. Deer mice and house mice move off the fields and woodland into the nearest crawl space when the cold and rain arrive, and roof rats climb into attics along the tree lines. Giant house spiders and the rest of the valley's spiders follow the insects into the crawl spaces and garages.
The damp also keeps the moisture cast going year-round, silverfish, sowbugs, springtails, and earwigs, and yellowjackets take the ground and walls by late summer. An experienced local exterminator covers Adair Village and the surrounding area.
Around Adair Village
- E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area
- Camp Adair history
- Oak woodland
- Highway 99W
- Soap Creek area