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In Phoenix, Precision Pest Control covers houses and commercial buildings across the Salt River Valley, plus pre-sale termite and pest inspections. Crews work canal-side streets in Arcadia, old citrus yards near the Biltmore and lots backed against South Mountain and the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, with plans centered on roof rats, bark scorpions, sewer roaches, desert termites and pack rats.
What Precision Pest Control offers
Pest control in Phoenix depends on the neighborhood, so our services do as well. Precision Pest Control works with homes, rentals and businesses from Arcadia and Encanto to Ahwatukee Foothills and Deer Valley. Every plan starts with a free estimate, uses eco-friendly products and is priced from $57.
Home service matched to the neighborhood. Central Phoenix houses get roof rat and roach work around old trees and drains, and homes near the preserves get scorpion and pack rat treatment.
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Plans for restaurants, offices, warehouses and multi-unit buildings, with inspections of kitchens, drains, docks and trash areas where roaches and rodents get started.
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Buying or selling a Phoenix home? Our termite and pest inspection gives buyers, sellers and agents one clear set of findings to work from before closing.
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Tell us what you are seeing and where. We will recommend a plan for your home or business, with service plans from $57.
What we treat
Roof Rats, Bark Scorpions and Sewer Roaches in Phoenix Homes
Roof rats
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension reports that roof rats were first documented in Phoenix in 2001. They moved into old growth citrus, palm trees and mature landscaping and use irrigation canals to spread. These are climbers: they run along utility lines and rooftops and nest in attics, soffits, garage rafters and palm crowns full of old fronds. The giveaway is an orange hollowed out on the branch with only the rind left hanging.
Arizona bark scorpions
The bark scorpion is the most venomous scorpion in the United States and is common around buildings of every kind in the low desert. It hides in hollow block walls, climbs textured stucco and ceilings, and gets indoors through worn weather stripping, window vents and the weep holes along the base of stucco. Warm nights keep it moving most of the year. Extension specialists say pesticides alone will not solve it, so sealing and clearing clutter are part of every visit.
American and Turkestan cockroaches
Arizona's biggest and most frequently seen roach is the American cockroach, nicknamed the sewer roach. Sewer lines are its main home in the desert Southwest, and it climbs out through dry drain traps, door gaps and window frames. Keeping seldom-used drains filled with water and fixing leaks closes the easy routes. The Turkestan cockroach, first found in Arizona in 1982 and now common here, packs into water meter boxes and irrigation valve boxes and peaks in June.
Desert subterranean termites
Heterotermes aureus is the most common and most destructive termite in the region. It lives in the soil and builds mud tubes up the stem wall to reach framing, and it will eat dry, sound wood as well as damp wood. Extension guidance for older homes is to inspect the foundation twice a year, keep main irrigation lines at least 18 inches from the stem wall, and leave about 4 inches of exposed stem wall below the stucco.
Pack rats and kissing bugs
The white-throated pack rat is the one most often found in suburban Phoenix. Along South Mountain Park and the Phoenix Mountains Preserve it piles sticks and cactus into middens against walls and under sheds, and it can chew vehicle wiring. Those middens are breeding sites for kissing bugs, which fly to porch lights after dark and bite sleeping people. Extension specialists rank exclusion as the most effective fix, so the work centers on sealing and removing shelter.
Spotted something?
Roof rats are far more active in the cooler months, when backyard trees are heavy with tangerines and oranges. Pick ripe fruit, clear what drops, and trim branches that touch the roof. A wet winter is also a good reason for a spring termite check along the stem wall.
Phoenix averages 111 days a year at 100 degrees or more, most of them from late May into September. Turkestan cockroach numbers peak in June, and adult kissing bugs fly toward house lights from May through July, so this is the time to check door sweeps and window screens.
The National Weather Service sets these dates for the monsoon. Storms flood scorpions out of their hiding spots, desert subterranean termites swarm after rain, and puddles, plant saucers and birdbaths can breed mosquitoes. Culex mosquitoes, the main West Nile carrier in Maricopa County, bite from evening to early morning.
Describe it on the phone and we will tell you what it likely is and how we would treat it. Estimates are free.
7 questions answered
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Roof rats feed on backyard citrus because it gives them food and water in one place. They climb into the tree at night, chew a hole in the fruit and hollow it out, leaving the empty rind on the branch or on the ground. Finding those shells from November through May is a strong sign rats are nesting nearby.
Bark scorpion stings can be serious, especially for young children and older adults. For a stung child aged 9 or younger, or weighing under 70 pounds, University of Arizona guidance is to dial 911 or the Poison Help line, 1-800-222-1222, right away. Adults should call Poison Help for advice.
Twice a year is the Extension recommendation: once in spring, especially after a wet winter, and again near the end of the monsoon when termites are most active. Look for pencil-width mud tubes on the outside stem wall and where pipes come up through the slab, and call for an inspection if you see one.
Precision Pest Control plans for Phoenix homes start at $57, and estimating the job costs nothing. Your price depends on the house and what is getting in, since a lot under mature palms with roof rats is a different job from a new build in Ahwatukee Foothills with a few scorpions. Tell us what you are seeing through the online estimate form, or ring (512) 561-7451.
Yes. Businesses are covered as well as homes, including restaurants, offices, warehouses and multi-unit properties. In Phoenix the usual trouble spots are kitchens, floor drains, loading docks and trash enclosures, where sewer roaches and rodents get started. Send us your address for a free estimate, or phone (512) 561-7451 to talk through the building.
We check the places desert subterranean termites use: the stem wall for mud tubes, spots where plumbing rises through the slab, wood trim near soil and irrigation lines running close to the foundation. You get one clear set of findings that buyers, sellers and agents can work from before closing. Real estate inspections are one of our core services, and estimates are free.
Kissing bugs breed in pack rat middens, which pile up along South Mountain Park and the Phoenix Mountains Preserve and in suburban yards that border them. The adults take wing toward porch lights at night between May and July and then bite sleeping people. Switching off unneeded fixtures, sealing door gaps and removing shelter for the rats cuts down on visits.
Phoenix covers about 517 square miles of the Salt River Valley, from central streets shaded by decades-old citrus to houses backed against South Mountain. What gets into your home depends on which of those places you live.
Phoenix is the Maricopa County seat and, with 1,608,139 residents in the 2020 census, the fifth most populous city in the country. It sits at about 1,086 feet in the northern Sonoran Desert, and its water still moves through canals laid over routes the Hohokam dug centuries ago. Citrus was one of the Five C's that carried the early economy, and many older yards still hold mature fruit trees.
Those three things, canals, old fruit trees and the mountain preserves that break up the grid, explain most of what we find on Phoenix service calls. A central home under tall palms, a house in Maryvale and a newer build in Ahwatukee Foothills each need a different plan. We start outside with the trees, block walls, drains and irrigation boxes, then treat and seal where the activity actually is.
Local field notes
What our technicians check first on a Phoenix property
Unique to Phoenix
Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Phoenix details that shape every plan we write here.
In central Phoenix the risk often starts overhead. Roof rats in an urban neighborhood usually stay within about 120 yards of their nest, so a neglected palm or a fruit tree next door can feed rats that nest in your attic. Trimming dead fronds, cutting limbs back from the roofline and screening vents does more than bait alone.
Out toward the preserves and in newer tracts, the ground matters more. Hollow block walls shelter scorpions and can hold honey bee colonies, and every wild honey bee in Arizona carries some Africanized genes. We check walls, meter boxes and irrigation boxes, seal the gaps we find, and leave active bee colonies to trained removal.
Phoenix plans begin at $57; tell us about your house for a free estimate online, choose a date, or talk it through at (512) 561-7451.
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