by Dave Rider | Nov 3, 2026 | Pests
You reach into the pantry for a bag of rice and notice pantry pests moving. Or you open a container of flour and discover tiny brown insects crawling near the surface. Sometimes the first clue isn’t an insect in the food. It’s a small moth flying around the kitchen or...
by Dave Rider | Nov 1, 2026 | Pests
You pull a sweater out of the closet and notice several small holes from carpet beetles or clothes moths. Or you move a piece of furniture and discover that the edge of your wool rug looks damaged. Nothing appears to be crawling around. You haven’t seen any obvious...
by Dave Rider | Oct 9, 2026 | Pests
You open the garage at night and hear chirping. Maybe a cricket jumps out from behind a storage box. Then you find another near the water heater. A few days later, there’s one in the house. For Arizona homeowners, crickets can be more than an annoying nighttime...
by Dave Rider | Oct 5, 2026 | Pests
You turn on the bathroom light at 2 a.m. Something moves. A large reddish-brown cockroach disappears behind the toilet or under the vanity. It’s tempting to assume the bathroom must be dirty. That’s usually the wrong place to start. Arizona cockroaches...
by Dave Rider | Sep 10, 2026 | Pests
You clean the windowsill and they’re gone. Two days later, the tiny bugs are back. Sometimes they’re crawling. Sometimes they’re dead along the window track. You may even have dozens of tiny insects concentrated around one window while the rest of...
by Dave Rider | Aug 15, 2026 | Pests
Irrigation systems solve one problem and create another if they aren’t managed with pest pressure in mind. The water that keeps desert landscaping alive in Arizona’s extreme heat is the same water that makes the property significantly more attractive to...
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