Precision Pest Control services homes around Lake Las Vegas and along the golf courses and washes that run through Henderson, as well as older neighborhoods closer to Water Street and the historic downtown district. In a desert city, anything holding water tends to become a pest problem fast. We treat every property with that fact in mind.


Scorpions and cockroaches turn up looking for moisture wherever irrigation or a pool deck creates a wet spot in an otherwise dry yard, and mosquitoes breed in golf course ponds and anywhere near Lake Las Vegas that holds standing water through the summer. We also handle ants and bees drawn to sprinkler heads and drip lines, and spiders that settle into the gaps common in block wall fencing near washes and drainage channels. In a city built on desert ground, water is almost always the reason a pest shows up at all.
Henderson sits in a valley where almost nothing survives without irrigation, which makes water the thing to watch for pest activity. Lake Las Vegas and the golf courses built around it hold standing water through some of the hottest months anywhere in the country, with summer highs regularly topping 100 degrees, and that combination pulls mosquitoes and scorpions toward anything wet. The Las Vegas Wash, which carries runoff and treated water out toward Lake Mead, and the flood control channels built to handle rare but heavy monsoon storms both create pockets of moisture that don't exist naturally out in the surrounding desert.
Block wall fencing, common throughout Henderson's subdivisions, gives scorpions and spiders plenty of small gaps to hide in near drip lines and sprinkler heads, especially where a yard backs up to a wash or a golf course. Cockroaches follow the same logic, moving toward any consistent moisture source rather than spreading evenly across a property. The Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, built on treated wastewater ponds near the water reclamation facility, is proof of how much wildlife and insect activity concentrates around the city's handful of wet spots instead of the dry ground everywhere else.


See at Pest World!


See at Pest World!