Pest & Wildlife Control in Steveston
The Wild Pest serves every Steveston neighbourhood from the Village to Seafair — technicians on-site within 75 minutes, with our 60-day pest guarantee and 3-year wildlife exclusion warranty.
On-site in Steveston within 75 to 90 minutes, 7 days a week, 7am–10pm. The Village and Imperial Landing typically closer to 75 minutes; deep Seafair closer to 90.
60-day pest return · 3-year wildlife exclusion warranty · Same-day response or service is free.
The Wild Pest technicians are dispatched from Metro Vancouver daily. Covering every corner of Steveston, BC.
What makes pest pressure in Steveston unique
Steveston is the southwest corner of Lulu Island — a historic fishing village that became a residential community while keeping its working waterfront. Garry Point Park, the Britannia Shipyards, Imperial Landing, and the Fraser River South Arm all meet here, and that interface creates pest pressure you do not see anywhere else in Metro Vancouver. Commercial fishing and food-processing activity along the waterfront concentrates gulls, pigeons, and starlings; the Fraser River and adjacent drainage sloughs carry Rattus norvegicus at extremely high density; and the Steveston village housing stock — much of it pre-1970 wood-frame cottages and Craftsman conversions — shows its age.
The historic residential stock through Steveston Village, Woodwards, and Steveston North concentrates carpenter ant pressure because older wood-frame homes here have absorbed decades of delta moisture. Newer Seafair and South Arm detached stock has less structural pest pressure but the waterfront-adjacent rodent pressure remains. Wildlife pressure includes the full delta mix: raccoons moving the dike corridor nightly, skunks denning under decks in Woodwards, and persistent bird roosting on waterfront commercial and fishing-fleet infrastructure. Richmond Bylaw §5662 applies here as it does citywide.
The pests we see most often here.
The Fraser River South Arm, drainage sloughs, and waterfront commercial activity keep Rattus norvegicus density extremely high in Steveston. Older wood-frame village stock amplifies the problem — gaps at utility penetrations and crawlspace vents are abundant. Full audit, entry-point mapping, and permanent sealing are the right response.
Waterfront Steveston sees some of Metro Vancouver's most persistent gull, pigeon, and starling pressure. Stainless-steel ledge netting, bird spikes, and one-way funnels — federally compliant with the Migratory Birds Convention Act, corrosion-resistant for salt-air exposure. Long-term structural warranty.
Camponotus modoc finds ideal habitat in Steveston Village pre-1970 wood-frame cottages with original siding, single-pane windows, and decades of absorbed delta moisture. Our protocol treats the colony and audits the moisture source; without fixing the water, ants return within a year.
Procyon lotor travels the Fraser dike corridor nightly, entering attics through older village-stock soffit gaps and roof returns. Humane one-way door exclusion with galvanized hardware-cloth sealing — one-year single-point or three-year full-home warranty.
Steveston homes with waterfront adjacency and older wood-frame construction benefit disproportionately from quarterly service. Four seasonal visits catch spring ants, summer wasps, fall rodent entries, and winter interior activity before any escalates into a full infestation.
Mephitis mephitis dens under Steveston decks and sheds throughout Woodwards and older village stock. One-way door exclusion plus trenched L-footer barrier — no trapping, no spray, no re-digging.
Steveston Village · Imperial Landing · Britannia Shipyards · Garry Point · Woodwards · Seafair · Steveston North · South Arm