Maricopa is a Pinal County city at about 1,170 feet, 20 miles south of the Phoenix metro down the 347, and it was farmland until subdivisions arrived after 2000. Rancho El Dorado, Maricopa Meadows, Glennwilde, Tortosa, Province, Homestead and the neighborhoods off Smith Enke and Honeycutt are stucco tract homes on block walls, granite yards and pools, built on deep former cotton and alfalfa soil that holds moisture and keeps desert subterranean termite colonies close to the slab. Termite tubes on stem walls, builder pretreatment records and drip lines run against the foundation are the daily work.
The fields never went away. Cotton, alfalfa and the dairies on the edges of town send field mice, crickets, grasshoppers and flies into the nearest subdivision each fall and after harvest, and the homes closest to the dairies get fly pressure that the center of town does not. Bark scorpions are lighter than the desert edge cities since Maricopa is flat farmland rather than graded desert, but they travel in on landscaping rock and block and settle into pool pads and weep holes. Province and the 55 and over sections add snowbird homes empty from May through October, and Harrah's Ak-Chin and the resort area bring hotel and restaurant accounts.
Maricopa is in Pinal County, so food service accounts fall under Pinal County Environmental Health inspection rules rather than Maricopa County. Summer heat above 110 degrees and the July monsoon drive the calls, led by termites, field pests after harvest, ants and roaches through drains after rain.
Around Maricopa
We regularly work near:
- 📍Copper Sky Regional Park
- 📍Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino
- 📍Pacana Park
- 📍Maricopa Wells
- 📍Rancho El Dorado
- 📍The Duke at Rancho El Dorado
Pest Control in Maricopa — Local Notes
- •Deep former cotton and alfalfa soil under every subdivision keeps subterranean termite colonies close to the slab, so termite trench and drilling with the drip line moved off the foundation is the most common job.
- •Homes bordering the fields and dairies get field mouse, cricket, grasshopper and fly pressure each fall and after harvest, handled with ground level exclusion and foundation baiting.
- •Province and other 55 and over sections need summer vacant home programs with gate access arranged and a report after each visit.
- •Maricopa is in Pinal County, so restaurant and resort accounts keep a service log for Pinal County Environmental Health inspections.
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