Pest control in New Orleans is Formosan termites in gallery roofs and wet sills, plus roaches and mosquitoes that never lose the humidity. A carton nest above a porch is not a fire ant mound and not a mud tube on a pier. Say what you can already see, and whether the wood is soft under the paint.
Formosan colonies swarm hard, then build inside walls, shutter boxes, and hollow trim where no soil tube shows. Eastern subterranean termites still use the soil line, bridged shields, and mulch piled on lattice. Wings on a sill, blistered siding, and a floor that feels paper-thin at the baseboard are evidence. A dry week does not end the colony. The wet wood from a gallery leak is how they get a foothold the spray on the rail never touches.
Carpenter ants nest where a leak already softened a beam, so the roof and the insect share a member. Carpenter bees drill sunny rails and leave yellow dust. American roaches come from sewers, crawls, and the dark under raised houses, especially after rain when drains burp. German roaches hold the kitchen. Mosquitoes breed in sagging gutters full of oak litter and in containers under the pier. Fire ants take open sunny yards in the newer slab neighborhoods.
Treat the moisture with the insect or the insect returns. A gutter dumping at a pier, a bath leak into a joist, and soil against lattice are invitations. Spraying the trim and leaving a carton in the gallery roof is not a completed visit. When you call, separate wings, hollow wood, a nest you have seen, mounds, and bees. Say if the activity is in a raised house or a slab. The entry is different, and the wood available to them is different.
Walk the skirt, the gallery ceiling, and the baseboards with a light. Note the neighborhood. An Uptown gallery and a New Orleans East slab do not offer the same harborage. Say how long wings have appeared and whether a leak was left open above the soft spot. Mention if wind-driven rain keeps wetting the same wall. The trade needs the evidence and the damp wood, not a general complaint that the city has bugs. Call the number on this page.