DeSoto borders Lancaster to the west and shares its geology: expansive blackland prairie clay that swells with rain and shrinks in the summer heat, cracking slab-on-grade foundations and opening the expansion joints subterranean termites travel through. Termite pressure across southern Dallas County is heavy, and most DeSoto homeowners find out from a spring swarm rather than an inspection.
Above ground the pattern repeats. Red imported fire ant mounds erupt across DeSoto lawns after rain. Roof rats work the mature tree lines of the older neighborhoods into attics and soffits. Big American cockroaches come up the drains when the ground bakes dry or a heavy downpour floods the storm system. Black widows take the garages and meter boxes, and striped bark scorpions slip in through slab cracks and weep holes.
The wooded creek corridors and the low spots that hold water keep mosquitoes going from spring into fall, with West Nile a standing Dallas County concern. Call and connect with an experienced local exterminator who treats DeSoto properties.
Around DeSoto
- Hampton Road corridor
- Thorntree
- Cockrell Hill Road
- DeSoto Town Center
- Grimes Park