Precision Pest Control covers Mesa from the flood-irrigated lots in Lehi and Dobson Ranch out to the newer builds along the Superstition Freeway and the Usery Mountain edge. Residential and commercial, and in a city with this much irrigated ground and this much desert on the east side, those two jobs look nothing alike.


Mesa splits into two pest problems and we treat them as two. On the irrigated side, in Lehi and the older Dobson and Alta Mesa blocks, we deal with Argentine ants, field crickets, earwigs and the roof rats that live in mature citrus. On the east side toward Usery Mountain and the Salt River bed, it turns into bark scorpions, black widows, desert subterranean termites, centipedes and pack rats. Cockroaches turn up on both sides, usually through the sewer, and every summer the palo verde beetles arrive regardless of which half of the city you live on.
Flood irrigation is the single biggest factor in Mesa pest work and most companies treat around it instead of with it. When a lot in Lehi or the old citrus blocks takes water, the soil column saturates and everything living in it moves up and out, which is why homeowners see ants and crickets at the door within a day of irrigation. Treating a week before the water arrives does almost nothing. Treating on the right side of that cycle changes the result completely, and it is the kind of thing you only learn by working these neighborhoods for years.
The east side of Mesa is a different job. Out past Power Road, where subdivisions run up against the Usery foothills and the Salt River bed, the pressure is scorpions and the answer is exclusion first. We seal the weep holes, the stucco stops, the garage door corners and the roof tile edges, then treat the block wall and the ground line. We schedule around irrigation on the west side and around dusk on the east side, and we send the same technician back so nobody has to explain their property twice.


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See at Pest World!