Albany sits across the Willamette River east of Corvallis and holds one of the largest collections of historic homes in Oregon. That housing stock shapes its pest problems. Century-old homes on vented crawl spaces run damp through a wet valley winter, and damp wood and damp crawl spaces are exactly what carpenter ants and the Pacific dampwood termite are looking for. Carpenter ants excavate galleries in a softened sill or rim joist and run satellite nests inside the structure, and they rarely announce themselves until you find the frass.
The moisture also feeds the valley's signature cast: silverfish, sowbugs, springtails, and earwigs in the crawl space and along the baseboards, plus giant house spiders and cellar spiders in the basements and garages. Rodents push in from the river corridor and the farmland at the first fall rain.
Above ground it is the familiar rotation, yellowjackets in the ground and eaves by August, and bed bugs in the rentals and shared housing. An experienced local exterminator covers Albany homes and businesses.
Around Albany
- Monteith Historic District
- Willamette River
- Downtown Albany
- Talking Water Gardens
- Albany Carousel