How to Prevent Scorpions
Scorpion Facts:
1. An adult scorpion can squeeze into a crack the width of a credit card.
2. Adult scorpions can live 6 - 8 months without food. Their diet consists of live insects and their favorite food is crickets.
3. Female scorpions give birth to their babies alive, they do not lay eggs like other pests do. There are typically 20 - 30 babies born at one time. Immediately following birth baby scorpions crawl onto their mother's back where they will stay for about two weeks until they are ready to live on their own.
Scorpion Control:
1. Routinely Do-Your-Own Pest Control or Hire Us for Professional Service.
2. Eliminate scorpion entry points and hiding places: Hire Us to seal your home (480) 832-1913
3. Make it hard for scorpions to live or hide near you home, eliminate hiding places such as:
1. Routinely Do-Your-Own Pest Control or Hire Us for Professional Service.
- Keeping a thorough and consistent barrier in place will help tremendously in your fight against scorpions.
- We're experts at teaching you how to Do-It-Yourself and/or applying these barriers for you.
2. Eliminate scorpion entry points and hiding places: Hire Us to seal your home (480) 832-1913
- Seal cracks and crevices that are the width of a credit card or larger (scorpions can enter these areas and hide for months).
- Adjust or replace weather stripping around exterior doors.
- Install screens inside exhaust vent covers in laundry rooms and bathrooms.
3. Make it hard for scorpions to live or hide near you home, eliminate hiding places such as:
- Lumber and firewood piles (stack them away from the home and up off of the ground).
- Remove leaf litter and bark chips next to the home.
- Do not put large stones such as river rock or rip-rap next to the home (keep it at least 6 feet away).
- Keep tree limbs, shrubs and bushes trimmed so they do not contact the home.
- Eliminate moisture directly next to the home (leaking hose bibs and air conditioner condensation lines are sources to look for).