Your Trusted Phoenix Cricket Exterminator

Why eliminate crickets?

Other than the obvious reason, that their chirping inside your home can drive the sanity from the most patient person, there is also another reason to get rid of these annoying little guys. They provide a major food source for more menacing pests like Black Widow spiders and Scorpions! In fact, in most scorpion control programs, Phoenix pest control and Scottsdale pest control exterminators make their first step eliminating the food sources of the scorpions of which crickets are usually the most plentiful. Kill the crickets and many times the scorpions will have no reason to be on your property.

Where are crickets found?

  • Your Home's Foundation
  • Cracks and Crevices
  • Block Fence Voids
  • Water Boxes
  • Underneath Ground Covering Plants

How NaturZone Pest Control Treats Crickets

  • The Foundation of Your Home

    Foundation's should be treated up to the weep screed (that lip that sticks out) to eliminate this as a place for crickets to live and enter your home. Just a few inches up from the ground on your foundation is a metal lip called a "Weep Screed" that lets your walls breath. It also provides an excellent hiding spot for crickets and others to hide, but also to get into your home. These weep screeds have a gap behind them that is sometimes big enough to get fingers behind but usually just a couple millimeters wide. It also has holes every 2-3 feet called "weep holes'. We use a liquid pesticide and spray the entire foundation making sure to angle the spray upwards toward the weep screed and weep holes in order to get as much as possible into the cricket's living quarters.

  • Cracks and Crevices

    There are lots of different types of cracks and crevices around most properties. The major one is the crevice between your house slab and your patio slab or anywhere else where two slabs of concrete meet each other. This spot provides protection from us humans as well as from the sun. It is also usually much cooler down there. We will flush these crevices with a liquid, aerosol, or a dust treatment depending on the structure.

  • Block Fence Voids

    The empty spaces inside block fences are always a target for any good Phoenix pest control or Scottsdale pest control exterminator. They provide a cool place protected from the sun and humans and there is LOTS of space in there. In addition to a dust treatment, we regularly flush the cracks and crevices of block fences while doing routine services.

  • Water Boxes

    Those plastic boxes that have your irrigation equipment inside them are often hot spots for cricket activity, and their predators. Not surprisingly, it's rather moist and cool in them which is like an oasis for critters in the hot summers...and springs...and falls that we have here in the Phoenix and Scottsdale area. We use aerosols to clear out the crickets and kill them quickly.

  • Underneath Ground Covering Plants

    Some of the biggest areas in need of cricket treatment are under those pretty ground cover plants in your yard. These plants provide a cool, moist and protected area for a variety of pests to live in. We will treat around and underneath these areas.