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Pest control in Tempe
Tempe is the metro's rental capital, three-quarters of the homes around ASU are renter-occupied, and its pest calls follow that. Describe what you're seeing and whether it's a house, apartment or student rental, and get connected with a local company that works Tempe daily.
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What's active in Tempe
Each opens the page for that pest, with companies that work Tempe on the other end of the call.
Roaches
German roaches in the rental core around ASU; sewer roaches from the old laterals under Maple-Ash and central Tempe.
See the signs →Bed bugs
Student housing, apartments and the August move-in cycle. Tell the company it's a multi-unit building.
See the signs →Roof rats
The canals and flood-irrigated older neighborhoods; the city runs its own roof-rat program.
See the signs →Termites
Heaviest under the early-1900s core at Maple-Ash and downtown; active citywide.
See the signs →Mosquitoes
The Lakes, park lagoons and flood-irrigated blocks.
See the signs →Bees
Block walls, meter boxes and mature landscaping citywide.
See the signs →Not sure what you're dealing with?
Describe it on the phone. The company on the other end handles these calls every day and will know what to ask.
How pests run in Tempe
Density drives Tempe. ZIP 85281 is over three-quarters rentals, ASU turns over tens of thousands of student leases every year, and German roaches and bed bugs ride that cycle between units, dorms and secondhand furniture. It is the one city on this site where the first question is what kind of building you are in. Roof rats work the canals and the flood-irrigated older blocks, enough that Tempe publishes its own roof rat guidance. The early-1900s core around Maple-Ash adds the old-city pests: sewer roaches out of century-old laterals, termites under the oldest slabs in the East Valley.
The stock splits by decade. Maple-Ash and the downtown core date to the early 1900s through the 1950s. Central Tempe along Broadway and McClintock is 1960s-70s, half rentals. The Lakes was Arizona's first man-made lake community, built through the 1970s, and keeps mosquitoes local. South Tempe's Warner Ranch is the owner-heavy 1980s-90s end, where the calls look more like Chandler's.
- Small roaches in an apartment kitchen
- Bites in a line after a move or a used couch
- Scratching in the attic near the canals
- Big sewer roaches up the drains in central Tempe
- Mud tubes on a pre-1970 stem wall
- Mosquitoes around The Lakes at dusk
Tempe pest control questions
I'm in an apartment near ASU with roaches. Whose problem is it?
Practically, the building's: German roaches travel between units, so treating one apartment while the neighbors go untreated fails. Arizona landlords are generally responsible for pest control in multi-unit housing unless the lease says otherwise. Report it in writing, and if you're arranging treatment yourself, tell the company it's an apartment so they plan for the walls you share.
Do I need to worry about bed bugs in student housing?
It's the metro's densest bed bug environment: high turnover, shared walls, secondhand furniture. Check any used mattress or couch before it comes inside, look at mattress seams after moving in, and treat early. A small pocket caught in week one is a far smaller job than a semester-old infestation.
Something is running the power lines to my roof at night. Rats?
That's the roof rat route, and Tempe is squarely in their East Valley range, enough that the city publishes its own guidance. They follow the canals, citrus and flood-irrigated blocks, enter at the roofline, and nest in attics. Trapping plus sealing the roof returns is the fix that lasts.
Do the companies cover all of Tempe?
Yes, 85281 through 85284, from the ASU blocks to Warner Ranch. Give your cross streets and say whether it's a house or a multi-unit building so the right company picks up.
Get your Tempe pest problem looked at
Independent pest control companies that cover Tempe neighborhoods.