House hunting and purchasing a new home is exciting and stressful all at the same time. There are so many decisions that must be made and so many circumstances that fall completely out of your control that it can feel like you’re on a roller coaster from one day to the next.
Typical seasonality for mosquitoes in Queen Creek falls between the middle of April and the first frost of the season, which usually happens around late October. Our long growing season and rainy, humid climate help to perpetuate mosquito activity long into the fall.
In Arizona, like the rest of the country, mosquitoes are an unwelcome part of summer. But mosquitoes aren’t just pesky insects that ruin your evening when you want to enjoy the cooler part of the day on your patio. Mosquitoes are also a health hazard.
Honey bees are vital to our ecosystem and it’s hard to tell the difference between many stinging insect species. You may accidentally destroy a hive of honey bees while trying to remove these nuisance pests from your home.
Increasing ant activity is reliant on warm weather and sunny skies, and the fast-approaching summer season will soon see thousands of pests crawling through your property, looking for food and water. Lawns across the country will face ant invasions during the next several months.
Surely, if you have lived here in Arizona for long enough, you have seen one of these eight-legged, two-clawed, stinger-equipped arachnids around and about. We’d even guess that you know their stingers can pack a decent punch of pain and unpleasant after-effects.
There are a lot of dangerous creatures in life that we can agree don’t need wings. For instance, if lions, tigers, and bears could all grow wings once a year, it would raise some serious concerns for everyone; yet, home-wrecking termites do sprout wings once a year.
Scorpions cause similar problems to wasps and bees, in the way that they sting when threatened; these stings usually come with a decent amount of pain, discomfort, and occasionally more serious symptoms.