San Tan Valley is an unincorporated community in Pinal County at about 1,400 feet, one of the fastest growing places in Arizona, built almost entirely since 2000 on former farmland and open desert between Queen Creek and Florence. Johnson Ranch, Skyline Ranch, Circle Cross Ranch, Pecan Creek, Copper Basin and the subdivisions along Hunt Highway and Ironwood are stucco tract homes with block walls, granite yards and pools, and the pests are the ones that come with grading desert next to a mountain: bark scorpions displaced into the block walls and pool pads, black widows at the weep holes, pack rats in the washes and kissing bugs from their nests.
The lots against San Tan Mountain Regional Park and the Queen Creek Wash carry the heaviest scorpion pressure in the community, and Africanized bee swarms land on block walls each spring and fall. Homes bordering the remaining farmland get field mice, crickets and grasshoppers moving in each fall and after harvest. Because nearly every home is under 25 years old, termite pretreatment records, builder warranties and drip irrigation run against the stem wall are the termite conversation, and the state TARF record is checked before any new treatment is proposed. Encanterra adds a 55 and over section with homes empty through summer.
San Tan Valley is served by Pinal County rather than Maricopa, so food establishment accounts along Hunt Highway and Gantzel Road fall under Pinal County Environmental Health inspection rules. Summer heat above 110 degrees and the July monsoon drive the calls, led by scorpions, termites, ants after rain and field pests from the surrounding land.
Around San Tan Valley
We regularly work near:
- 📍San Tan Mountain Regional Park
- 📍Queen Creek Wash
- 📍Johnson Ranch
- 📍Encanterra Country Club
- 📍Copper Basin
- 📍Hunt Highway corridor
Pest Control in San Tan Valley — Local Notes
- •Subdivisions graded out of desert at the base of the San Tan Mountains carry heavy 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.
- •Nearly every home is new construction, so builder termite pretreatment records are checked on the state TARF database first and drip lines against new stem walls are moved off the foundation.
- •Lots bordering farmland get field mouse, cricket and grasshopper pressure each fall and after harvest, handled with ground level exclusion and foundation baiting.
- •San Tan Valley is in Pinal County, so restaurant and food service accounts keep a service log for Pinal County Environmental Health inspections rather than Maricopa.
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