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Pest & Wildlife Control in Burnaby

The Wild Pest covers every Burnaby neighbourhood from Metrotown to Burnaby Heights — technicians on-site within 75 minutes, backed by a 60-day pest guarantee and 3-year wildlife exclusion warranty.

On-site fast

On-site in Burnaby within 75 minutes, 7 days a week, 7am–10pm. Metrotown, Brentwood, and Willingdon Heights typically closer to 60 minutes; Burnaby Mountain and deep Deer Lake closer to 90.

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60-day pest return · 3-year wildlife exclusion warranty · Same-day response or service is free.

Based near Burnaby

The Wild Pest technicians are dispatched from Metro Vancouver daily. Covering every corner of Burnaby, BC.

What makes pest pressure in Burnaby unique

Burnaby's pest pressure tracks its unusual geography. Central Park, Burnaby Lake, Deer Lake, and the Central Valley Greenway form an almost continuous corridor of forested green space stitched through the city — which makes Burnaby one of the most wildlife-active municipalities in Metro Vancouver. Raccoons, skunks, and coyotes move between residential blocks and the lake system nightly. North Burnaby's older neighbourhoods (Burnaby Heights, Willingdon Heights) carry pre-1970 wood-frame stock with the carpenter ant and roof rat pressure you'd expect. South Burnaby's Metrotown core is a dense concrete high-rise zone with completely different pest dynamics: bed bugs, cockroaches, and pigeon roosting on parking garages and commercial towers.

Climate is effectively identical to Vancouver — mild wet winters, warm dry summers, frost line rarely an issue — so the pest calendar does not reset. Burnaby's zoning also features heavy light-industrial and big-box commercial along Lougheed and Still Creek, which creates significant commercial IPM demand. The Still Creek corridor specifically is a well-documented rat pressure zone due to the creek bed itself and the adjacent warehouse stock. Burnaby Bylaw §6548 echoes Vancouver's owner-responsibility framework for rodent control, and SFU's Burnaby Mountain campus sits at the edge of a working forest with its own wildlife dynamics that spill into Forest Grove and Westridge.

Most common in Burnaby

The pests we see most often here.

Raccoons

Burnaby's lake-and-greenway corridor gives Procyon lotor constant travel routes between dens, which makes raccoon attic entry one of our most frequent Burnaby callouts. We use humane one-way door exclusion, respect maternity timing (March–June), and seal entries with galvanized hardware cloth backed by a one-year single-point warranty.

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Rodents

The Still Creek corridor, Burnaby Lake, and pre-1970 housing stock in the Heights all drive rat and mouse activity year-round. Most Burnaby rodent infestations enter through identifiable gaps at soffits, roof returns, and crawlspace vents — full audit and sealing outperform bait-only approaches every time.

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Carpenter ants

Older Burnaby Heights and Deer Lake homes with cedar siding, deck ledgers, and chronic gutter issues are textbook Camponotus modoc habitat. Our treatment always pairs with a moisture audit because carpenter ants follow water — fixing the leak is half the permanent solution.

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Squirrels

Eastern grey squirrels move readily through Burnaby's mature tree canopy into gable vents, roof returns, and fascia edges. One-way door exclusion with hardware-cloth sealing stops the re-entry cycle most Burnaby Mountain and Forest Grove homeowners have been stuck in.

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Bed bugs

Metrotown, Brentwood, and Lougheed high-rise concrete stock carries ongoing Cimex lectularius pressure. Our single-visit thermal eradication protocol kills every life stage in one session — the method of choice for strata councils avoiding multi-week chemical disruption.

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Skunks

Mephitis mephitis dens under Burnaby decks and sheds throughout the Deer Lake and Buckingham Heights areas. We use one-way door exclusion plus trenched L-footer barriers — no trapping, no spray incidents, permanent seal against re-digging.

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Serving across Burnaby

Metrotown · Brentwood · Burnaby Heights · Deer Lake · Burnaby Lake · Burnaby Mountain · Lougheed · Edmonds

FAQ

Questions from Burnaby customers.

How fast can you reach my Burnaby address?+
Most Burnaby bookings see a technician on site within 75 minutes during our 7am–10pm window. Metrotown, Brentwood, Willingdon Heights, and the Burnaby Heights core typically run closer to 60 minutes. Burnaby Mountain, deep Deer Lake, and Buckingham Heights can run closer to 90 minutes depending on time of day and traffic across the Grandview-Boundary interchange. We give you a realistic window on the booking call — not an optimistic one.
Why is there so much wildlife activity in Burnaby?+
Burnaby is uniquely shaped by its park system. Central Park, Deer Lake, Burnaby Lake, the Central Valley Greenway, and Burnaby Mountain form an almost continuous forested corridor through the city. Procyon lotor, Mephitis mephitis, and eastern grey squirrels travel that corridor nightly. Homes on the edges of those green spaces — Forest Grove, Buckingham, Oakdale, Westridge, Cariboo — see substantially more wildlife entry attempts than Metro Vancouver average. Our exclusion work in these neighbourhoods is consistently our highest-volume service.
Do you work with Burnaby stratas and property managers?+
Yes. Metrotown, Brentwood, and Lougheed concrete high-rise towers are a core part of our Burnaby business. We operate under confidential single-unit and building-wide protocols for bed bug heat treatment, cockroach baiting, rodent monitoring in shared garages and service rooms, and pigeon exclusion on balconies and mechanical equipment. Photo-documented reports meet strata recordkeeping and insurance requirements.
What does Burnaby's rodent bylaw require of property owners?+
Burnaby Bylaw §6548 places rodent control responsibility on the property owner, in line with most Metro Vancouver municipalities. If a tenant or strata owner reports activity, the owner is obligated to address it. We work directly with owners, property management companies, and strata councils to meet that obligation, and our photo reports document every inspection and treatment for compliance purposes.
Is trapping skunks legal in Burnaby?+
Not in most circumstances. Under the BC Wildlife Act, relocating wildlife more than one kilometre is typically prohibited, and skunks dropped in unfamiliar territory usually die within weeks. Our Burnaby skunk work is always one-way door exclusion followed by a trenched L-footer barrier — a hardware-cloth skirt buried 12 inches down and extending 12 inches outward from the deck perimeter to prevent re-digging. No trapping, no relocation, no spray incidents.
Do you handle bats in Burnaby?+
Yes. Myotis lucifugus — the little brown bat — is protected under the BC Wildlife Act, so timing is critical. We never exclude during maternity season (roughly May through mid-August). Our Burnaby bat work uses one-way valves installed in the legal window (late August through October, or early spring), followed by full roost sealing and, where guano contamination is present, professional HEPA decontamination under IPMR-BC standards.
Why do so many Burnaby Heights homes have carpenter ants?+
Carpenter ants (Camponotus modoc) follow moisture. Burnaby Heights and Willingdon Heights carry substantial pre-1970 wood-frame stock with cedar siding, original wood windows, and deck ledgers that have absorbed decades of Metro Vancouver rainfall. Combine that with mature trees dropping debris into gutters and carpenter ants have everything they need. We always pair treatment with a moisture audit because without fixing the water source, carpenter ants come back.
What's the Still Creek rat situation?+
The Still Creek industrial corridor running through central Burnaby is a well-documented rodent pressure zone. The creek itself, combined with adjacent warehouse, food-processing, and restaurant stock along Lougheed and Dawson, creates ideal Rattus norvegicus habitat. Our commercial IPM programs in this corridor use HACCP-compliant monthly monitoring, exterior bait stations at regulated distances, and integrated exclusion on the built structures themselves.