Bloomfield sits north of East Orange and its housing splits the difference: streets of older single-family homes with real yards, and streets of two-family houses and small apartment buildings much like its neighbors. The pest problems split the same way. In the single-family sections, eastern subterranean termites and carpenter ants are the structural concerns, both working on wood that moisture reached first, whether from a failed gutter, a roof valley, a damp basement, or a porch post standing on soil. New Jersey sits in heavy termite pressure and old frame houses are the target.
In the denser sections, German cockroaches and mice move between attached units through wall voids and plumbing chases, and treating one unit alone rarely holds.
Everywhere, the Third River corridor, the parks, and the small backyards give Asian tiger mosquitoes container water to breed in, and they rarely fly more than a couple hundred feet, so the source is close. Yellowjackets in soffits peak in August. An experienced local exterminator covers Bloomfield.
Around Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Green
- Third River
- Brookdale Park
- Broad Street
- Bloomfield College