Pest & Wildlife Control in Dunbar
The Wild Pest services every Dunbar block from Alma to Camosun — technicians on-site within 60 to 75 minutes, with our 60-day pest guarantee and 3-year wildlife exclusion warranty.
On-site in Dunbar within 60 to 75 minutes, 7 days a week, 7am–10pm. Dunbar Street village and 16th Avenue corridor typically closer to 60 minutes; deep-west Dunbar toward Camosun and Pacific Spirit Park closer to 75.
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 Dunbar, Vancouver.
What makes pest pressure in Dunbar unique
Dunbar is a west-side Vancouver neighbourhood defined by generous single-family lots, an unusually intact urban forest canopy, and adjacency to Pacific Spirit Regional Park. That combination drives Metro Vancouver's most wildlife-intensive pest profile — homes in Dunbar see more Procyon lotor, eastern grey squirrel, and Tamiasciurus douglasii (Douglas squirrel) pressure per address than almost anywhere in the region. Pacific Spirit Park's 874 hectares of mature coastal forest provide continuous habitat immediately against the western edge of the neighbourhood, and the park's wildlife travels into Dunbar blocks nightly via mature canopy, fences, and laneway networks.
Housing stock is predominantly 1920s–1960s detached on generous west-side lots — Craftsman, Tudor Revival, and early ranch — with substantial recent laneway-home and infill-duplex addition across the neighbourhood. The older stock drives moderate carpenter-ant pressure in homes with persistent cedar-shingle or deck moisture. Mature Douglas fir, western red cedar, and chestnut canopy on nearly every residential block gives squirrels continuous roof-to-roof travel. Dunbar's 41st Avenue and 16th Avenue commercial villages add restaurant-adjacent rodent pressure to residential blocks immediately behind. Vancouver Bylaw §3.1 places rodent control on property owners.
The pests we see most often here.
Dunbar's continuous mature canopy and Pacific Spirit Park adjacency produce some of Metro Vancouver's heaviest eastern grey and Douglas squirrel attic entry. One-way door exclusion with permanent galvanized hardware-cloth sealing — single-point 12-month warranty, or full-home 3-year warranty.
Procyon lotor travels Pacific Spirit Park into Dunbar residential blocks nightly. Roof-to-roof mature canopy gives continuous access to aged soffits and roof returns. Humane one-way door exclusion with hardware-cloth sealing backed by single-point or full-home warranty.
Older Dunbar stock with cedar shingles, chronic gutter moisture, and aged deck ledgers is textbook Camponotus modoc habitat. Our protocol treats the colony and audits the moisture source; without fixing the water, ants return.
Alley networks, mature hedging, and 41st Avenue restaurant-corridor adjacency keep Rattus norvegicus pressure steady. Full audit, entry-point mapping, and permanent sealing. No second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides.
Mature-treed Dunbar lots with fruit trees and ornamental shrubs generate significant yellowjacket, paper wasp, and bald-faced hornet pressure. Same-day removal with direct entry-point treatment; exterior preventive application; season guarantee.
Dunbar's generous lot sizes, complex older roof designs, and continuous wildlife pressure from Pacific Spirit Park make full-home exclusion disproportionately valuable here. Every active and potential entry sealed with industrial hardware cloth — 3-year warranty, the longest in BC.
Dunbar Street · 41st Avenue · 16th Avenue · Dunbar Community Centre · Pacific Spirit Regional Park · Camosun Street · Southlands (adjacent) · Musqueam (adjacent)