Cricket Control
Cricket Control That
Starves Scorpions
Quiet the chirping and cut off the scorpion food chain. Serving Gilbert and the entire East Valley — plans from $35/mo with a $99 initial visit.
Licensed · AZ Office of Pest Management
Free re-service between visits
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Same-day service when booked by 1pm
Crickets seem harmless. Annoying, sure — one chirping inside a garage wall at midnight can ruin a week — but harmless. Here's what they actually are: the bottom of the scorpion food chain. Arizona bark scorpions eat crickets. Where crickets thrive, scorpions follow.
That makes cricket pest control the smartest dollar in Arizona pest control. Knock down the cricket population and you accomplish two things at once: you silence the chirping, and you starve the most venomous scorpion in the United States right off your property.
What we do
Granule Treatment
Weather-resistant granules in landscape beds, river rock and turf edges — where crickets harbor and sprays can't reach.
Perimeter Barrier
Liquid treatment around the foundation, garage thresholds and block wall bases cuts off their route inside.
Scorpion Defense, Built In
Every cricket we eliminate is food off the scorpion's table. Cricket control is step one of scorpion control.
Field Crickets, House Crickets and Why Your Garage Is Loud
The East Valley deals with two main culprits. Field crickets are the big black ones that swarm porch lights and pile up in garages after summer rain. House crickets are smaller, tan and the marathon chirpers — they'll live indoors indefinitely if food and moisture hold out.
Both breed in irrigated landscape, under rock and inside block wall voids. Both are nocturnal, which is why the chirping starts right when you want to sleep — males chirp to attract mates, so a loud yard is literally a breeding yard.
And both are protein for scorpions, spiders and centipedes. A cricket problem is rarely just a cricket problem. It's the base of a food web you don't want on your property.
How We Treat Crickets
We hit harborage first: granule applications in landscape beds, river rock and turf perimeters where crickets live and breed. Granules sift down into spots sprays never touch and hold up under Arizona sun and irrigation.
Then we close the route inside with a liquid perimeter treatment — foundation line, garage thresholds, weep holes and block wall bases. On recurring service we refresh both before they break down.
Crickets breed fast in irrigated desert yards, so the schedule is the strategy. A one-time treatment quiets things for a few weeks; quarterly or bi-monthly service keeps them gone — and keeps the scorpions hungry.
Plans & pricing
Covered on a plan, priced in public.
Shield
Every 90 days
$35/mo
$105 billed quarterly
Year-round coverage for the common desert pests.
Start with ShieldShield+
Every 60 days
$45/mo
$90 billed every 2 months
Our scorpion plan. Bi-monthly visits tuned to AZ scorpion pressure.
Start with Shield+Max
Monthly
$59/mo
$59 billed monthly
Maximum pressure control — monthly visits plus seasonal mosquito.
Start with Max$99 initial visit — One-time initial visit — full interior + exterior knockdown service. Often discounted with an annual plan.
Questions, answered
Why do I have so many crickets?
You're irrigating a desert. Drip lines, lush landscape beds and bright porch lights give crickets everything they need — moisture, harborage and a nightly insect buffet under the lights. Add the protected voids inside a block wall fence and most East Valley yards are cricket habitat by default.
Do crickets really attract scorpions?
Yes. Crickets are a primary food source for the Arizona bark scorpion, and scorpions go where the food is. It's why our scorpion service leans so hard on cricket control: starve the predator and the predator leaves. If you're seeing scorpions, treat the crickets too — always.
How do I stop the chirping in my walls at night?
That's usually a male house cricket sitting in a wall void or weep hole, calling for a mate. Swatting at drywall won't fix it. We treat the voids and weep holes directly, lay granules at the wall base and seal the gap he used to get in — quiet, and it stays quiet.
Are crickets actually harmful?
Directly? Not very — they don't sting, and bites are rare and trivial. In numbers they can chew on fabric, paper and seedlings. The real damage is indirect: a thriving cricket population feeds and sustains scorpions and spiders. Control crickets and you cut the legs out from under both.
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