Precision Pest Control serves Cave Creek and the surrounding desert lots, from the town core along Cave Creek Road out to the acreage and horse properties near Spur Cross Ranch. These are not suburban parcels with a greenbelt behind them, they are homes built inside working desert, and the plan has to reflect that.


In Cave Creek we work properties that sit inside intact Sonoran desert rather than beside it. That means scorpions in real numbers, along with black widows, desert recluse spiders, giant desert centipedes, tarantulas, pack rats in vehicles and equipment, and Africanized honey bee colonies in wall voids and water boxes. Horse properties add stable flies and feed room rodents. Rattlesnakes, javelina and coyotes are routine here, and subterranean termites work steadily through the caliche.
Talking with Bill at Desert Mountain Pool Cleaning in Cave Creek, they say "out of all the pests I see in swimming pools while cleaning, scorpions seem to stand out the most. Even though they can't swim, they seem to always find their way in there."
A Cave Creek property is a desert property and pretending otherwise wastes money. There is no subdivision buffer, no greenbelt and often no continuous wall, so the idea of creating a sealed perimeter around the lot is not realistic. What is realistic is making the structure itself uninteresting and hard to enter. We focus on the building envelope, the weep holes, the stucco stops, the roof tile ends, the garage seals and the utility penetrations, and then we treat the immediate ground line and the harborage close to the house rather than trying to treat an acre of desert.
Bee work deserves separate mention here because Cave Creek gets more of it than almost anywhere else we service. Established colonies in wall voids, water meter boxes and irrigation valve housings need to be removed properly, with the comb taken out, or the residual wax and honey will draw a new swarm to the same cavity within a season. On horse properties we handle feed storage and manure as the fly control problem it actually is. And on acreage we set rodent stations along the outbuildings and the tack room, where the food is, not scattered across open ground.


See at Pest World!


See at Pest World!