Wildwood's vast area — over 66 square miles — encompasses a landscape that transitions from the outer edge of conventional St. Louis County suburbia in its eastern sections to terrain that feels distinctly rural in its western reaches near the Franklin County line. The city's residential character ranges from the Chesterfield Valley-adjacent neighborhoods in the east to the acreage properties along Pond Road and the Meramec River corridor in the south and west, where homes on 2–10 acre lots back up to wooded ravines and creek drainages.

The Meramec River forms part of Wildwood's southern boundary, and the river's floodplain and the wooded bluffs above it define the pest environment for the city's southern neighborhoods. Wildwood's western sections approach the Franklin County line and the rural Missouri landscape that D&D Pest Control serves from Gerald — these outer Wildwood properties experience pest pressure that is more consistent with rural Franklin County than with suburban St. Louis County.

Woodland Edge Pest Profile

Wildwood has among the highest tick pressure of any St. Louis County municipality — the combination of large forested areas, abundant deer populations, the creek and ravine corridors that sustain small mammal populations, and the wooded lot edges that most properties share creates the full range of tick habitat conditions. Lone star ticks from brushy woodland margins, blacklegged ticks from the leaf litter of mature forest, and American dog ticks from the open-to-brushy transition zones are all present across the city's landscape.

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