Precision Pest Control serves Surprise from Sun City Grand and the Recreation Campus out through Marley Park, Asante and the newer rooftops pushing west toward the ag ground. A lot of this city is single-story tile roof with deep covered patios, and that specific construction drives most of what we get called for.


Surprise is built for shade and the pests take advantage of it. The deep covered patios and the alcoves above porch columns are the single most common nest site we find here, holding paper wasps, mud daubers and honey bee swarms in spring. Low-pitch S-tile roofs give pigeons and roof rats an easy foothold. On the ground it is bark scorpions along block walls, black widows in weep holes and irrigation boxes, crickets in fall, and subterranean termites throughout. The remaining farm ground on the west side adds field mice and gophers.
Most companies working Surprise treat the ground and stop. That misses where the problem actually is. The architecture here favors deep patio overhangs and columns with hollow alcoves at the top, and those alcoves are protected, shaded and almost never inspected, which makes them the preferred nesting spot for wasps and the staging area for bee swarms every March and April. We inspect them on every visit, knock down what is starting, and treat the void rather than the visible nest. Doing that in early spring prevents most of the stinging insect calls we would otherwise get in June.
The tile roofs need the same attention. Low-pitch S-tile in this city has open ends at the eave line that let birds and rodents underneath the tile and onto the felt, which is how you end up with a rat in a soffit. Sealing those ends is straightforward and it is permanent. On the ground we handle the standard Valley scorpion and widow work, weep holes and wall base included, and out on the west edge where subdivisions meet working farmland we set exterior rodent stations on the boundary rather than at anybody's back door.


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See at Pest World!