Ahwatukee pest control along the South Mountain edge.

South Mountain Park is the reason. Ahwatukee runs along the south side of the preserve, so hundreds of homes share a wall with permanent, protected desert habitat rather than with another subdivision. Bark scorpions live in that rock and come down into yards to hunt, and because the preserve is never getting built on, the pressure does not fade the way it does in a developing area.

It changes where the work goes rather than what it costs. On a preserve-side home the effort concentrates on the back wall and the yard: dusting weep holes and wall voids, treating the base of the block wall, and clearing harborage close to the rock line. A home further into Ahwatukee gets the same visit weighted toward the usual entry points instead.

All of it. Ahwatukee is a single Phoenix village covering the 85044, 85045, and 85048 ZIP codes, and the whole of it is on our route, from the Foothills up against the preserve down to the neighborhoods along Interstate 10. It's geographically self-contained, which is why it's sometimes called the world's largest cul-de-sac, and it means one trip covers everyone.

Nice starts new customers with a $75 initial service. After that, visits come every other month, billed at $49 a month with no contract, so you're never locked in. We send a no-obligation estimate by text before we start, so you see the number first.