Pest Control Service in Queen Valley, AZ

Queen Valley is a small place on a long drive. It is about 41 miles from Tempe but takes around 66 minutes, and for a business run by one man, that sits at the outer edge of what is plausible. Service is by arrangement. Please phone first to confirm Kai can take your job.

What makes it different is what people live in here. An 18-hole golf course, houses and an RV resort with park models share a small foothill valley on the south side of Queen Creek, at about 2,000 feet, with the Superstition Mountains to the north and northwest.

Fairway homes, park models and RV pads off Queen Valley Road

Each kind of home has its own way of letting pests in. A fairway house has irrigated turf at the back fence, which keeps soil damp and draws ants and crickets, and scorpions follow that food. A park model on skirting has a hidden space underneath and many plumbing gaps. An RV has slide seals, hookups and an engine bay, all of which appeal to rodents when it sits still.

Desert sits close to all of them. Foothill rock and brush give scorpions and pack rats cover, and a parked rig on a gravel pad is an easy target. Queen Valley Golf Course dates to the early 1960s, so some nearby homes may be that old, with years of repairs and gaps to look at.

What should you check on skirting, slide seals and hookups?

A few minutes with a flashlight tells Kai far more than a general description. On a park model or stored rig, look at:

• The skirting access panel, and the ground just inside it, for droppings and nesting.
• The engine bay and air filter box on anything that has sat for weeks.
• Slide-out seals and the pass-through where hookups enter.
• Pipe gaps under sinks, where daylight or a draft gives a way in.

Quiet months and part-time houses along Queen Creek

Census data from 2000 put the median age here at 65, a sign of a retirement-minded community. If your place stands empty for part of the year, tell Kai. A closed-up house or stored RV gets no traffic, and that is when nests start. Walk the property when you return, and look for droppings, chewed wiring and piled debris. That same census counted 595 housing units and found households in just 417 of them, so even then a good share of homes had nobody counted as living there.

Pest control in Queen Valley, AZ, from Tempe

Kai handles the visit himself. Queen Valley Road connects you to US 60 east of Florence Junction, and his route from Tempe uses that highway. Kekoa is closed Sundays and stops at noon on Saturdays. Customers elsewhere describe a day-before reminder, on-time arrival and a chemical list left behind after monthly calls.

Recurring service at this distance is not a given. Ask before you assume it, and if your problem is urgent, say so, so Kai can tell you honestly whether he is the right call. This site lists no prices. The pest, the type of home and the number of trips set the cost.

Does living near Whitlow Ranch Dam change the pest picture?

Not in any way we can prove. The dam is a 149-foot earth structure owned by the Army Corps of Engineers, built in 1959, about a mile east of the community. The Tonto National Forest boundary and 2,681-foot Comet Peak sit about 1.5 miles east. What those distances tell you is that open public land starts close by, with no tract of streets between you and the foothills, so scorpions and pack rats are always near the edge of a yard. Pinal County also lists separate Queen Valley water, sanitary and fire districts. A wet spot near a water or sewer line is worth reporting early, because damp ground draws ants and roaches.

What we can and cannot say about Queen Valley

No Queen Valley jobs are claimed on this page, because we only say what can be checked. The census place covers about 10 square miles and falls partly in the Superior and partly in the Apache Junction school districts, so a community this small still has real distances inside it. Give the street and tell Kai whether you are on the course, in the resort or out on a larger lot.

The reviews shown here come from other parts of the Valley. None mentions Queen Valley.