Ant Control in San Jose, CA
Ant Control in San Jose, CA typically costs $120 to $350 on PestPin's national planning range. We found 60 licensed pest control companies in San Jose. What you actually pay depends on the size of the job and how bad it is, so get a written quote before you hire.
15 of them publish a phone you can call for free, and those are listed first. You can also send one request and we pass it to a single company at a time, never resold.
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Ant Control companies in San Jose
60 companies in the San Jose area hold a state pest control license record we matched to this service. Our California license records were last checked on . This page lists 50 of them as cards, the first 15 on screen, and names 8 more further down.
Why this list is shorter than the state roster
Our license records tie 63 businesses to San Jose. 1 is not carried as consumer pest control, because the license scope on the record is lawn, tree or agricultural work, or the record has not cleared our consumer-service check. 2 were no longer on the roster the last time we read it. The 60 that remain are the companies counted on this page. This is a reading of the public record, not a check of workmanship or availability, and not an endorsement.
Not a ranking. How this list is ordered
This list puts claimed listings first, then records you can actually act on: a published phone, then a website, then an email. That is completeness of the public record, not a rating and not a recommendation. No company can pay to be added, to invent a license record, or to hide another company from this list. For a listing the company has not claimed, only the license record is confirmed; services, coverage, and availability are not.
A pest control license does not by itself prove a company is permitted for every specific job. Most of these companies have not confirmed their own services or coverage area with us yet, so check those details directly with the company.
35 of these 50 companies publish no phone number on their license record and have not claimed their listing.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
Check they are licensed for your exact job before you hire.
- All About Termite Solutions CA #7393
- Artec Pest Control CA #8965
- Banner Pest Services CA #5878
- Budget Pest Control CA #5209
- Bug Barrier Pest Control Inc CA #9366
- Bugmaster Of Santa Clara County CA #7801
- Clark Pest Control Of Stockton Inc Dba Clark Pest Control CA #4096
- Cost Less Fumigation Company CA #7424
- Critter Control Of San Jose CA #9823
- Dewey Pest Control Co-Dewey Serv CA #3799
- Earls Pest Control Of Santa Clara County CA #854
- Elevation Pest And Termite Control CA #10085
- Exo Pest Solutions CA #5906
- Expert Exterminators Inc CA #8905
- First Choice Inspections CA #6097
- Geffroy Termite Control CA #6168
- Great Wall Termite Control Inc CA #8295
- Habitat Pest Control Inc CA #7183
- Homeguard Incorporated CA #1452
- Hydrex Pest Control Of Santa Clara County Inc CA #8619
- Innova Termite & Pest Control Inc CA #7294
- J & T Termite CA #6798
- Nor Cal Fumigation Inc CA #8394
- Orkin Pest Control CA #5643
- Pacific Pest Management Inc CA #8425
- Pestec CA #5404
- Pest Hunters CA #9180
- Planet Orange Termite Services CA #5410
- Praxis Pest Management Inc CA #9640
- Presto Pest Control Inc CA #5819
- Proven Termite Solutions - Weed Enterprises Inc Dba CA #3030
- Ratting On Rodents CA #9012
- Silver Creek Termite Control Inc CA #4922
- Simply Rodents CA #9261
- Sky Ox Fumigation Inc CA #10030
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Cards stop at 50 so the page stays readable. Everyone else we hold a matching record for is listed by name here.
The other 8 companies with a matching record
These come after the cards above, in the same order: claimed listings first, then by how much of the public record the company publishes. Open any name to read the license record we matched it to.
What ant control costs
PestPin's national planning range for ant control is $120 to $350. That is not a measured San Jose price: your quote depends on the company, the size of the job and how bad the problem is. Ant activity peaks in spring and summer, and fire ants forage again in fall once temperatures cool; winged swarmers indoors in spring can signal a nearby nest. If demand rises seasonally, asking providers about availability early can make scheduling easier. The full ant control cost breakdown covers pricing by method and what moves the price, and the ant control guide covers how the problem shows up and how it is treated.
What ant treatment involves, and why spraying often backfires
Which ant you have changes the job completely. A trail running from the kitchen sink is almost always an outdoor colony that found a crumb, and the fix is outside. Carpenter ants are a different signal: Penn State Extension notes they seldom tunnel into dry, sound wood but will excavate moist, rotting wood, so finding them indoors usually means there is a leak, a bad flashing, or a damp sill somewhere. Whoever comes out should follow the trail to where it enters the building rather than treating the counter.
The treatment that ends a colony is bait placed on the trails and near nest openings, so workers carry a slow-acting material back to the nest and the queens. UC IPM is unusually specific about what to ask for: if you hire a pest control company, ask them to use baits and spot treatments rather than perimeter treatments or monthly sprays. It also warns that spraying ants indoors will not prevent more from entering, and to avoid pyrethroid sprays outdoors on hard surfaces like driveways, sidewalks, and around the foundation, where they wash into storm drains.
Baiting looks worse before it looks better. For a few days you may see more ants, because they are recruiting to the bait, and then the trail thins out over one to two weeks. Finish the job yourself by wiping the trail with soapy water to remove the scent they follow and by caulking the entry point once the activity stops. Sealing it while they are still feeding just pushes them to a different crack.
What to ask before you hire
- Which ant is this, and where is the nest?
- Are you using bait, or spraying, and why that choice?
- If these are carpenter ants, will you look for the moisture source?
- Is there a re-treatment window if the trail comes back?
Sources: UC IPM: Ants, Penn State Extension: Carpenter Ants, Texas A&M AgriLife: Two-Step Fire Ant Control.
Licensing & coverage in San Jose
Public licensing records associate 60 pest control business records with San Jose. These records were matched to licenses marked active when processed. This is license-record coverage, not a claim that every listed business currently serves every address or still holds current status. Every listing on this page was matched to a license record from California Structural Pest Control Board (DCA). You can verify a license on the official state roster. Source refresh timing varies by state, so confirm current status with the regulator before hiring.
These are the same 60 companies listed for general pest control in San Jose: California licenses ant control as part of general pest control rather than on its own, so no company here holds an ant-only license. The general pest control page for San Jose is the same list with every pest these records cover.
Ant Control near San Jose
License record dates in San Jose
Measured from the license records behind the listings on this page. Dates only. None of it says a company is good, and none of it replaces asking.
- Median time since the first license record
- 10 yearsRead from all 60 companies listed here, each of which publishes a first-issue date on its record. It measures how far the record goes back, not the quality of the work.
- First licensed in the last 24 months
- 9 companiesCounted from the same records. A newer license is a date on a record, not a verdict on a company.
- Oldest license record here
- First issued in 1967The earliest first-issue date among those 60 records.