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Tempe renters, landlords and homeowners get pest control from Precision Pest Control, with plans that can run building by building for apartments and student rentals around Arizona State University, service for older Maple-Ash streets and block-walled lots near Papago Park, and termite and pest inspections for sales. German cockroaches, Indian house crickets, bark scorpions, roof rats and desert subterranean termites top the list.
What Precision Pest Control offers
Tempe pest control has to work for renters, landlords and owners at once. Precision Pest Control serves houses, student rentals, apartment buildings and businesses near ASU and Mill Avenue, with free estimates and eco-friendly products.
Service for single family streets and multi-unit buildings. We can plan roach work building by building, seal the pipe gaps between units and treat block-walled yards for scorpions.
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Plans for Mill Avenue restaurants, bars, offices and property managers, with kitchens, shared trash areas and plumbing chases inspected on a regular schedule.
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Buying a rental or an older Tempe house? Have termites and roaches checked before closing, and get a report that covers every unit.
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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
Tempe Pest Service From the ASU Blocks to the Chandler Line
German cockroaches
This small roach, marked with short dark stripes on the shield behind its head, lives indoors and settles where food and water are close, which usually means the kitchen. It tucks itself inside appliances such as refrigerators and dishwashers, which makes do-it-yourself sprays miss most of it. In apartments and duplexes we place baits where it hides and follow up until the population is gone.
Indian house crickets
University of Arizona entomologists name the Indian house cricket as the most common and troublesome cricket in the state. It gathers around foundations and doors, slips inside through cracks, and is the only cricket that breeds indoors. In big numbers it chews fabric and even drywall. Outdoor lights draw it in, so bug bulbs, tight door sweeps and closed garage doors at night help. Crickets also feed scorpions, which is one more reason to keep them out.
Arizona bark scorpions
Homes near Papago Park, the Tempe Butte preserve and any lot with a hollow block wall can see bark scorpions. In one study cited by Extension, 95 percent of the scorpions chose hollow block walls over other refuges. They scale walls, walk across ceilings and can drop into beds or tubs. Under an ultraviolet flashlight they glow, which makes a night check of the yard easy. Sealing gaps and removing boards and debris near the house reduce what we have to treat.
Roof rats
A Tempe yard with mature shade trees, citrus or palms offers exactly the cover roof rats favor. The rats climb, nest above ground in attics, soffits and vine-covered fences, and gnaw wiring, which creates a fire risk. They breed year round in the low desert, with up to five litters a year of five to eight pups each, so a couple of rats seen in March can become a real problem by summer.
Desert subterranean termites
Tempe houses built decades ago may have long since lost the soil treatment applied at construction. The desert subterranean termite travels from the soil in mud tubes and will eat framing, cardboard, paper and even bamboo flooring. Walk the outside of the foundation with a flashlight, look where plumbing enters the slab, and tap exposed wood with a screwdriver: hollow-sounding wood is a warning sign worth a professional look.
Spotted something?
Honey bee swarms are common in spring and usually move on within one to three days. Leave a resting swarm alone and keep people away. A colony that moves into a wall void, water meter box or irrigation box is different, and it needs to be removed and the opening sealed.
Monsoon rain sends desert subterranean termites on their mating flights and pushes scorpions out of flooded hiding spots. Warm summer nights also bring male cockroaches toward lights. Empty anything that holds water after a storm; Maricopa County notes that plant pots, buckets and kiddie pools can all breed mosquitoes.
Cooler nights push roaches and rodents indoors looking for warmth. Bark scorpions cluster together over winter in sheltered, undisturbed spaces, so opening a wall or taking down a block wall in these months can uncover a group of them. Wear gloves when moving stored boxes or firewood.
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
Looking for pest control near you in Tempe? Call (512) 561-7451 or request a free estimate.
Start by cutting off water and food: fix drips, wipe counters at night, and keep food in sealed containers. German cockroaches hide inside appliances and cabinets, so baits placed there reach them where sprays cannot. If neighboring units share walls, ask your landlord to treat them at the same time or the roaches will return.
Crickets in a Tempe home are usually Indian house crickets, which crowd around foundations and doors and walk in through small gaps. Bright porch lights attract them at night. Switch to yellow bug bulbs, add weather stripping to doors, clear plant debris along the walls, and put pet food away overnight.
Yes, the bark scorpion is common around buildings of all kinds across the low desert, including central Tempe. It favors block walls, stacked materials and wall voids and can travel through a building once inside. Sealing door gaps and weep holes and cutting down on insects it eats are the most effective steps.
Plans start at $57, with estimates free of charge. Cost depends on the unit or house, whether neighbors share walls and which pests are involved, so a one-bedroom apartment with German cockroaches is quoted differently from a house on a block-walled lot. Tell us about the building online, or call (512) 561-7451 and talk it over.
Yes. Precision Pest Control can treat one building at a time on request, which matters because roaches in shared walls come back to a treated unit if the neighbors are skipped. We also seal pipe gaps between units and inspect shared trash areas and plumbing chases. Ask for a free estimate to start.
We walk the outside of the foundation for mud tubes, look where plumbing enters the slab and check exposed wood for a hollow sound, since houses built decades ago may no longer have their original soil treatment. For a rental, the report can cover every unit. Estimates are free, and findings are written up for buyers and agents.
Eco-friendly products. In a small apartment much of the work happens away from the spray bottle: baits placed inside appliances and cabinets where German cockroaches hide, sealed gaps around pipes, and fixes for leaks and drips. Tell us what you see when you ask for an estimate, and we will match the plan to your unit.
Tempe is a compact, landlocked city of about 40 square miles, so older houses, student rentals and new apartment towers sit close together. Pests move between them just as easily as people do.
Tempe had 180,587 residents in the 2020 census, and it is home to the main campus of Arizona State University, one of the largest public universities in the country. The Salt River runs west through the north part of town, where two dams hold back Tempe Town Lake, and Hayden Butte and the buttes of Papago Park rise out of an otherwise flat grid. Elevation runs from about 1,140 feet at the lake to 1,495 feet on top of the butte.
Because the city cannot grow outward, it builds up and fills in. That leaves shared walls, shared plumbing and shared trash areas in the dense north end, and older single family streets farther out. Our Tempe work reflects that mix: German cockroach cleanouts in multi-unit buildings, scorpion sealing on block-walled lots, and termite checks on houses that have stood for decades.
Local field notes
What our technicians check first on a Tempe property
Unique to Tempe
Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Tempe details that shape every plan we write here.
If you rent or manage units near campus, the fastest wins are inside: fix leaks, keep drain traps full, store food sealed, and seal the gaps around pipes that connect one unit to the next. Roaches that live in shared walls come back to a treated unit if the neighbors are skipped, so we can plan work building by building when owners want it.
Maple-Ash, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, once watered its yards with a flood irrigation pipe system that the city shut off in the 1950s. Older streets like these have big trees and older construction, which means roof rat paths across the canopy and wood that deserves a regular termite check.
Renters and owners alike can phone (512) 561-7451 or send details online for a free estimate, and compare plans from $57 before booking.
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