Rat Control
Norway rat inspection, trapping, baiting and sealing for Baltimore alleys, cellars, rowhouse walls and yards.
Pest control across Baltimore and the Beltway suburbs
Pest control for Baltimore rowhouses, alleys and apartments
Call (855) 974-4733 any time about rats in the alley, mice in the party wall, roaches in the kitchen or bed bugs in the bedroom. The price is confirmed with you before any work starts, and same-day visits are scheduled when a technician is free.
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Today in Baltimore
Baltimore's humid summers, damp harbour air and cold snaps change which pests are active from week to week.
Baltimore & Baltimore City
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Baltimore Pest Control at a glance
Baltimore Pest Control arranges residential and commercial pest control in Baltimore and the nearby parts of Baltimore County and northern Anne Arundel County. A local technician handles rats, mice, cockroaches, bed bugs, termites, carpenter ants, mosquitoes, wasps, stink bugs and attic wildlife. Phones are answered 24/7, and you hear the price before anything starts.
Pests in Baltimore follow the buildings. A block of attached brick rowhouses shares walls, rooflines and often a cellar, so mice and roaches can pass from one house to the next without ever going outside. Behind the house, the rear alley, the trash cans and the stream or harbor edge are where Norway rats tend to be found. Baltimore Pest Control handles pest control in Baltimore for exactly these problems, with the price explained before anything is applied.
The work runs from Hampden's hillside mill streets and the Canton waterfront to detached houses with wood porches in Roland Park, apartment buildings in Towson and Pikesville, and restaurants and bars around Fells Point. Not sure what you are seeing? Start with general pest control, read the month-by-month pest calendar, compare how pest control is priced or browse the neighborhoods and towns we serve.
- Service area
- Baltimore and 28 neighbourhoods and towns within 25 km (Baltimore City, Baltimore County and northern Anne Arundel County), MD
- Address
- Baltimore, MD 21227
- Hours
- Phones answered 24/7
- Scheduling
- Same-day visits when a technician is free; no arrival time is promised
- Pricing
- Confirmed with you before any work starts
- Pests treated
- Rats, mice, cockroaches, bed bugs, termites, carpenter ants, ants, mosquitoes, wasps, stink bugs, spiders, fleas, ticks, squirrels and raccoons
Services
What is bugging you?
Pick a service for symptoms, process and typical cost, or call and describe what you hear and see.
Rowhouse Pest Proofing
Sealing party-wall gaps, cellar entries, rooflines and pipe chases so pests stay out of attached Baltimore houses.
Mouse Control
Mouse trapping, monitoring and sealing for rowhouse walls, kitchens and cellars across Baltimore and nearby suburbs.
Bed Bug Treatment
Bed bug inspection and treatment for Baltimore apartments, rowhouses and rentals, with heat or conventional options and follow-up checks.
Cockroach Control
Cockroach inspection and treatment for Baltimore kitchens, apartments, rowhouses and damp cellars.
Rental Property Pest Control
Pest control for Baltimore rental rowhouses and apartments, built for landlords, property managers and tenants.
Termite Control
Inspection and treatment for eastern subterranean termites in Baltimore rowhouses, porches, cellars and older wood-framed homes.
Termite Inspection
A careful look at cellars, joists, porches and sills for termites and other wood-destroying insects, with a written report when you need one.
Carpenter Ant Control
Finding and treating carpenter ant nests in damp porches, window frames, wall voids and trees around Baltimore houses.
Ant Control
Bait, sealing and exterior treatment for trailing ants in Baltimore kitchens, bathrooms and rowhouse walls.
General Pest Control
One-time visits and seasonal plans for the everyday invaders of Baltimore rowhouses and detached homes.
Mosquito Control
Source reduction and yard treatment for Asian tiger mosquitoes and other biting mosquitoes around Baltimore homes.
Wasp and Hornet Nest Removal
A local technician removes yellowjacket, paper wasp and hornet nests from eaves, porches, wall voids and the ground around Baltimore homes.
Stink Bug Control
Exterior sealing, wall treatment and indoor clean-up for brown marmorated stink bugs gathering on Baltimore homes each autumn.
Squirrel and Raccoon Removal
A local technician removes squirrels and raccoons from Baltimore attics and chimneys, then seals the entry points so they stay out.
Basement and Cellar Pest Control
A technician finds why pests favour a Baltimore cellar, treats the pests and points out the moisture, gaps and clutter that bring them back.
Spider Control
A technician identifies the spiders in your cellar, porch or garage, treats the hiding places and reduces the insects that feed them.
Flea and Tick Control
A technician treats fleas in carpets and pet areas and ticks along yard edges, with a repeat-visit plan to break the life cycle.
Commercial Pest Control
Inspection, treatment and recurring service for Baltimore restaurants, bars, markets, offices and shared buildings.
Why homeowners call us
Why Baltimore Pest Control
Phones answered 24/7
Droppings in the kitchen or a wasp nest over the front stoop do not wait for office hours. Call at any hour and you will talk through the next step with a real person.
Same-day visits when a technician is free
When a technician has room in the day, a same-day visit is scheduled. You hear what is realistic on the phone, and no arrival time is promised that the day cannot keep.
Price confirmed before work starts
The technician explains what was found, what treatment it needs and what it costs. Nothing is applied until you agree to the price.
Built around attached housing
Party walls, shared cellars and back alleys change how rodent, roach and bed bug work has to be done. Visits are planned around how your block is built, not around a generic house.
Label-directed treatments
Every product is used according to its label. Before leaving, the technician tells you what to do about pets, children, food and cleaning.
Homes, rentals and businesses
Owner-occupied rowhouses, landlord-managed apartment buildings and restaurant kitchens all get different plans, because the people who must act on the advice are different.
How it works
From phone call to fixed, in four steps
Call or send a request
Call (855) 974-4733 for anything urgent, or use the form for something that can wait a day. Say what you saw, where in the building and when.
Inspection and a price you agree to
The technician looks inside and out, identifies the pest, traces how it gets in and tells you the price before treatment.
Targeted treatment
Treatment goes where the pests live and travel: alleys, cellar walls, kitchen voids, mattress seams or roof edges, depending on the pest.
Next steps for you and the neighbors
You hear what to do about food, trash, moisture and gaps, and when to call again. In attached housing, that often includes a word with the house next door.
What pests are most common in Baltimore, MD?
In Baltimore, the pests people call about most are Norway rats in alleys and yards, house mice in rowhouse walls, German and American cockroaches, bed bugs in apartments and rentals, and eastern subterranean termites and carpenter ants in older wood. Mosquitoes, wasps, stink bugs and squirrels round out the year.
Most of these give early signs. Catching them early usually means a smaller job, so it pays to know what you are looking at around the cellar, the kitchen and the back fence.
- Burrows along a fence line or under a back step, gnawed trash bags, or droppings behind a bin: likely rats
- Scratching in a shared wall at night, or droppings along a baseboard: mice
- Small brown roaches in kitchen cabinets by day: German roaches
- Itchy bites in a line on the arms or neck, with dark specks on a mattress seam: bed bugs
- Winged insects at a window in spring, or sawdust-like frass under a porch beam: termites or carpenter ants
- A paper-like nest under an eave in late summer: wasps and hornets
How does Baltimore's weather affect pests?
Baltimore has hot, humid summers and cold-enough winters. BWI airport records put average annual precipitation at about 43.6 inches, July highs in the mid to upper 80s F and January lows in the low to mid 20s F. That swing sends insects outdoors in summer and sends rodents and overwintering bugs looking for warm walls as nights cool.
The calendar below is a rough guide, not a forecast. Timing moves with each year's temperature and rain, and indoor problems such as German roaches and bed bugs do not follow the seasons at all. For more detail, see the Baltimore pest calendar.
| Season | Weather | Pests to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Winter (Dec-Feb) | Cold snaps, lows often in the 20s F | Mice and rats inside walls and cellars, squirrels in attics, indoor roaches and bed bugs unaffected, stink bugs waking on warm days |
| Spring (Mar-May) | Warming, damp, changeable | Carpenter ants and odorous house ants resume, termite swarms on warm damp days, rats breeding through mild spells, mosquitoes starting |
| Summer (Jun-Aug) | Hot and humid, July the warmest month | Tiger mosquitoes, wasps building nests, ants foraging, American roaches coming in during heavy rain, bed bug reports rising with moving and travel |
| Fall (Sep-Nov) | Cooling nights, first cold snaps | Yellowjackets at their most aggressive, stink bugs on sunny walls, mice and rats moving in as nights cool, squirrels scouting attics |
Why do pests travel between attached rowhouses?
Attached rowhouses share party walls, rooflines and often cellars, so a pest that finds one gap can reach several houses. Mice, roaches and bed bugs can move through wall voids, pipe chases and shared attic space. That is why a treatment in one house may not hold unless the neighbors are dealt with as well.
This is reasoning about how the buildings are put together, not a measured count of infestations, but it matches what the neighborhood notes for places like Canton, Pigtown and Hampden describe: brick blocks built one against the next, with narrow back yards and alleys behind. Many are wrapped in Formstone, the artificial stone facing patented by Baltimore's Lewis Albert Knight in the 1930s. Whatever the front looks like, the party wall behind it is shared.
Good rowhouse work therefore looks beyond one kitchen. A technician checks where pipes and wires enter the wall, how the cellar meets the street, and what the back alley looks like. Our rowhouse pest proofing page covers sealing, and the guide on party walls and pests explains how neighbors can act together.
- Shared walls and rooflines: mice and roaches can pass through voids and pipe chases
- Shared or connected cellars: damp stone and brick can attract roaches, rats and wood decay
- Rear alleys: trash, gaps in fences and neighboring yards shape rat activity
- Rental units: tenants move often, which can carry bed bugs from one unit to the next
What do we know about rats and bed bugs in Baltimore?
Norway rats are the city's best-known pest, and the city runs its own alley program. In 2015, the Department of Public Works reported a Rat Rubout crew of 16 technicians, up from eight, planning to treat each alley on a 20-day cycle. Orkin's 2025 list ranked the Baltimore area No. 11 for bed bugs, based on its own treatment counts.
Both figures need context. The Rat Rubout numbers are from a 2015 city press release covering 12,250 alleys, and we do not have a current staffing figure, so read them as history, not as today's program. The 20-day cycle was chosen to interrupt the roughly three-week gestation of Norway rats. Orkin's ranking counts only that company's own treatments, so it is a signal, not a measure of how many homes have bed bugs.
What both point to is a city of dense, older buildings where pests are an ordinary part of upkeep, not a sign of a dirty house. Read more in our guides on rats in Baltimore alleys and bed bugs in Baltimore rentals.
How can you check a pest control company's license in Maryland?
Maryland requires pest control businesses to hold a pesticide business license from the Maryland Department of Agriculture, and people who inspect for pests or recommend treatments need consultant certification. You can ask any company about its license before work begins. It takes a minute and is worth doing before anyone treats your home.
Also ask what the technician plans to use, where it will go and what you should do afterward. A good answer is specific: the pest, the product, the areas treated and how long to keep children and pets away. Baltimore Pest Control explains the plan and the price before anything starts, and you can read more about how we work.
- What pest do you think this is, and why?
- What will you apply, and where in the building?
- What precautions should we take with children, pets and food?
- What is the total price, including any follow-up visits?
- What can we and the neighbors do to keep it from coming back?
Service areas
Serving Baltimore and all of Baltimore City
Hampden
ZIP 21211
Canton
ZIP 21224
Federal Hill
ZIP 21230
Pigtown
ZIP 21223
Govans
ZIP 21212
Mount Washington
ZIP 21209
Roland Park
ZIP 21210
Waverly
ZIP 21218
Edmondson Village
ZIP 21229
Curtis Bay
ZIP 21226
Belair-Edison
ZIP 21213
Fells Point
ZIP 21231
Towson
ZIP 21204
Dundalk
ZIP 21222
Essex
ZIP 21221
Catonsville
ZIP 21228
Arbutus
ZIP 21227
Parkville
ZIP 21234
Pikesville
ZIP 21208
Rosedale
ZIP 21237
Owings Mills
ZIP 21117
Randallstown
ZIP 21133
Lutherville-Timonium
ZIP 21093
Middle River
ZIP 21220
Woodlawn
ZIP 21207
Glen Burnie
ZIP 21060, 21061
Linthicum
ZIP 21090
Brooklyn Park
ZIP 21225
Baltimore, MD 21227 · 25 km service radiusCall (855) 974-4733
Not on the list?
We also cover many smaller communities across Baltimore City. Check your ZIP.
Job stories
Typical jobs around Baltimore City
Typical call: rats behind a rowhouse near the Jones Falls in Hampden
- What homeowners notice
- Residents of rowhouse blocks near the Jones Falls valley sometimes find burrows beside a back step, gnawed trash bags or droppings by the alley fence. Seeing a rat in daylight often means the activity has been building for a while.
- What we do
- The technician walks the yard and alley, finds the burrows and travel routes, sets bait stations or traps where children and pets cannot reach them, and points out open trash, gaps under the fence and low spots that hold food.
- What to expect
- Activity typically fades over the following weeks as the work continues and food and cover are removed, and the technician explains when to call again if new burrows appear.
Typical call: mice in a shared wall in a Pigtown rowhouse
- What homeowners notice
- A household in a long block of attached brick rowhouses hears scratching in the wall at night and finds droppings along the baseboard. Cleaning and a few traps only help for a week or two, because new mice keep arriving.
- What we do
- The technician looks for gaps where pipes, wires and vents enter the wall, checks the cellar and the roofline, seals openings with materials mice cannot chew through and sets traps along the runs. The conversation with the neighbors comes up too, since the wall is shared.
- What to expect
- Noise in the wall usually stops within a few weeks once the entry points are sealed, though a gap left open next door can still let mice back in.
Typical call: bed bugs in a rented apartment in Waverly
- What homeowners notice
- A tenant in a rented rowhouse unit wakes with bites in a line along the arm and finds dark specks along a mattress seam. The unit has neighbors on either side, and the landlord has not yet been told.
- What we do
- The technician inspects mattress seams, bed frame joints, outlets and baseboards, explains the treatment options and the preparation the tenant will need, treats the affected rooms, and advises the tenant to tell the landlord so adjoining units can be checked.
- What to expect
- A follow-up visit is usually planned to confirm the bugs are gone, and the tenant leaves knowing exactly which preparation steps matter most.
Need pest control today?
Call any hour and explain what is going on. You get a clear price before any work starts.
Guides
Answers before you call
How Much Does Pest Control Cost in Baltimore, MD? A 2026 Guide to What Moves the Price
Pest control in Baltimore is priced by the job, not by a flat city rate.
Rowhouse Party Walls and Pests in Baltimore: Why One House's Problem Becomes the Block's
In a row of attached Baltimore houses, pests can travel through shared walls, rooflines, utility gaps and cellars from one address to the next.
Rats in Baltimore Alleys and Yards: How They Live and What You Can Control
Norway rats thrive where food, shelter and water sit close together, and Baltimore's rear alleys, trash containers, cellars and stream corridors can supply all three.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can I call Baltimore Pest Control at night or on a weekend?
Yes. Phones are answered 24/7, including nights, weekends and holidays. That means a person picks up and talks through your problem, not that a crew is on the road at every hour. Same-day visits are scheduled when a technician is free, and any extra charge for odd hours is part of the price you agree to first.
How quickly can a technician come to my Baltimore home?
When a technician is free, a visit can be scheduled the same day. Rodents in the living space or a wasp nest by the door are treated as more urgent than a routine ant problem. No arrival time is promised on the phone; you hear a realistic plan for your address and the day's schedule.
Do I need to leave the house during a pest treatment?
Often not, but it depends on the product label and the pest. The technician tells you before starting whether anyone needs to step out and for how long. Bed bug work and some termite work come with their own preparation and instructions, which you will hear before the visit.
My neighbor's house has mice. Will mine get them too?
It can, in attached housing. Rowhouses share walls, rooflines and often cellars, so mice and roaches can pass between houses through voids and pipe chases. A technician can seal and treat your side, but the result lasts longer when the neighbors act too. The party wall guide has ideas for starting that conversation.
Do you treat apartments and rental buildings as well as houses?
Yes. Landlords, property managers and tenants all call about roaches, mice and bed bugs. In a multi-unit building, pests cross walls and floors, so the technician will ask about neighboring units. See rental property pest control for how access and tenant preparation work.
Do you handle termites as well as everyday pests?
Yes. Termite and wood-destroying insect inspections are available, along with treatment options for older houses with wood joists, porches and damp cellars. Swarmers indoors in spring are a common first sign. Save a few in a sealed bag and call. Read more about termite control and termite inspection.