Queen Creek sits at about 1,400 feet at the southeast edge of Maricopa County, a former pecan and dairy town that has become one of the fastest growing suburbs in Arizona. The new subdivisions, Meridian, Emperor Estates, Cortina, Victoria and the neighborhoods along Ocotillo, Ellsworth and the new Loop 202 extension, are stucco tract homes on block walls, granite yards and pools, many built on land that was open desert or orchard within the last 15 years. Bark scorpions displaced by grading live in the block walls and pool pads, black widows sit in the weep holes, and termite pretreatment and builder warranty questions come with nearly every new slab.
Older Queen Creek is horse country. The acre and larger lots along Chandler Heights, Riggs, Hawes and around the town center have barns, hay storage, feed rooms and tack sheds, which means pack rats and house mice in the barns, flies from manure, and bait station placement that has to account for horses, dogs and barn cats. The pecan groves and remaining farmland along the Queen Creek Wash feed crickets, field mice and roof rats into the nearby homes each fall, and the wash itself is scorpion, pack rat and kissing bug habitat. Encanterra adds a 55 and over section with homes empty through summer.
Queen Creek Marketplace, the restaurants along Ellsworth and the growing warehouse and industrial park near the airport run under Maricopa County Environmental Services inspection rules, while the San Tan Valley side of the town line falls under Pinal County. Summer heat above 110 degrees and the July monsoon drive the calls, led by scorpions in the new subdivisions, termites, ants after rain and barn rodents on the horse lots.
Around Queen Creek
We regularly work near:
- 📍Queen Creek Town Center
- 📍Schnepf Farms
- 📍Queen Creek Olive Mill
- 📍San Tan Mountain Regional Park
- 📍Queen Creek Wash Trail
- 📍Queen Creek Marketplace
Pest Control in Queen Creek — Local Notes
- •New subdivisions cut out of desert and orchard land carry displaced bark scorpion pressure and get the full block wall, weep hole and pool pad program with cricket control, usually monthly from March through October.
- •Horse properties on the acre lots need barn and feed room rodent programs built on trapping and exclusion, with any bait station placed where horses, dogs and barn cats cannot reach it, plus fly control at the manure pile.
- •Nearly all new housing raises termite pretreatment and builder warranty questions, so the state TARF record is checked first and drip lines against new stem walls are moved off the foundation.
- •The Queen Creek Wash and pecan groves feed crickets, field mice, roof rats and pack rats into bordering homes each fall.
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