Select Pest Control safely and effectively manages these common Arizona household pests:
Scorpion Pest Control
Scorpions are currently 1400 recognized species of scorpions worldwide. They are nocturnal and can be found in areas around moisture or outside lights where food sources are known to gather such as beetles, cockroaches, crickets, moths, or other insects. It only takes an opening or crack 1/16TH of an inch wide for a scorpion to enter your home. Keep all bushes, grass and trees trimmed away from the house. Make sure all screens are sealed tight. Since a scorpion will fluoresce or glow under ultra-violate light, the blacklight method will many times reveal hiding places not easily determined during daylight hours.
Cockroach Pest Control
Cockroaches can take over your home. Cockroaches can enter your from the outside through cracks and crevices, vents, sewer and drain pipes, even in grocery bags. Your home is an ideal breeding ground. With plenty of food, warmth, water and nesting sites, they can remain active all year round. Cockroaches reproduce quickly. For every one you see there can be 200 more hiding and multiplying behind your walls. Because cockroaches are nocturnal, if you've seen one during the day it is likely it was forced out due to overcrowding; a possible sign of severe infestation.
Ant Pest Control
Every year ants become more and more of a nuisance. Ants can enter through even the tiniest cracks seeking something sweet or greasy. Ants leave an invisible chemical trail known as pheromones for other ants to follow once they've found a food source. They can nest about anywhere in your home; your lawn, walls, stumps, even under foundations. A colony can number from 300,000 to 500,000.
House Spider and Black Widow Spider Pest Control
House spiders are responsible for most of the cob webs found inside your home. Flying insects make up most of their diet, so these spiders are most often found around windows and doorways. Some spiders like moisture and are found in basements, crawl spaces and other damp parts of buildings. Others like dry, warm areas such as vents, upper corners of rooms and attics. Black widow spiders construct irregular, scaffold type webs usually near the ground level. These webs are almost always constructed and protected site such as among items piled together, beneath boards, inside firewood and in boxes. Black widows eat any insect captured. Black widows are classified as dangerous spiders because their bite can cause sever cramping and pain throughout the body.
Honey Bee and Africanized Honey Bee (killer bees) Pest Control
Africanized and domestic honey bees closely resemble each other, differing only in size, as the Africanized bee is slightly smaller. The most important difference is behavior. The Africanized bees have an easily-triggered defensive instinct. When disturbed, Africanized bees attack in larger numbers and pursue over a greater distance for a longer period of time. Individually the sting of an Africanized bee is no more venomous than that of a domestic honey bee.
Grasshopper and Cricket Pest Control
Grasshoppers and crickets will generally live and breed outdoors. They can be found living among tall weeds, under boards, under rocks, in firewood and debris around the outside of the home. You can find them living inside especially in the kitchen, basement, fireplace or in cracks and voids. There is no immediate danger from crickets or grasshoppers, but they can become really annoying.
