Serving Tempe
Pest Control in Tempe, AZ
A landlocked student city of shared walls, high turnover and permanent water in the riverbed.
Get a free quoteTempe cannot expand, so it has infilled instead. The result is a city dominated by multi-unit buildings — student blocks around ASU, converted post-war fourplexes off Apache and Rural, and new mid-rise near the lake. Shared walls, shared plumbing chases and constant tenant turnover make German cockroaches and bed bugs the defining problems here in a way they simply are not in the outer suburbs. A single unit treated in isolation rarely holds; adjacent units and the chase have to be handled together.
Water is the second factor. Tempe Town Lake and the Salt River bed hold standing water where most of the valley holds dry sand, and the older neighbourhoods still flood irrigate, which keeps Culex mosquito pressure and West Nile concern higher than in Chandler or north Scottsdale.
Hayden Butte and the Papago buttes push scorpions into the homes closest to them, particularly the older Maple-Ash and Mitchell Park blocks with alley access and original block walls.
Where we work in Tempe
- Maple-Ash
- Tempe Town Lake
- Papago Park
- Hayden Butte
What Tempe calls us for
Bed Bug Treatment
Constant student tenancy turnover and shared-wall buildings near ASU move bed bugs between units faster than in single-family suburbs.
Cockroach Control
German cockroaches travel plumbing chases in older fourplexes and apartment blocks, so treatment has to reach neighbouring units.
Mosquito Control
Standing water at Town Lake, the river bed and irrigated older lots gives Tempe a longer mosquito season than the drier east valley.