Precision Pest Control covers Prescott Valley from the areas around Glassford Hill out through the newer subdivisions spreading across the valley floor. This is high desert grassland at roughly five thousand feet, and the open country around the housing is where most of the pest pressure originates.


Prescott Valley is newer housing set in open high desert grassland, and rodents dominate the list. Deer mice, house mice, woodrats and pocket gophers all thrive in the surrounding grass and scrub and move toward structures as weather turns. Ground squirrels are common. Add paper wasps and yellow jackets in late summer, cluster flies and boxelder bugs gathering on sunny walls in fall, spiders in garages and crawl spaces, and the skunks and javelina that show up around outbuildings and trash areas.
Grassland is excellent rodent habitat and there is a great deal of it around every neighborhood in this town. Unlike a desert subdivision where the pressure is scorpions, here the entire problem is warm-blooded and it is looking for shelter as soon as nights get cold. That makes fall exclusion the service that matters most. We seal the structure before the weather turns, working foundation gaps, utility and dryer vent penetrations, garage door seals and crawl space access, because a house that is genuinely sealed simply does not have a winter rodent problem.
Because so much of this housing is recent, the sealing is often the piece that was never done. New construction routinely leaves gaps at utility penetrations, weep screeds and garage corners, and in grassland country those gaps get found quickly. Our first visit is an inspection rather than an application. Outside, we place stations along the boundary between the neighborhood and the open ground rather than at each doorstep, which intercepts the traffic where it starts instead of after it has already reached the house.


See at Pest World!


See at Pest World!