St. George, UT · technician based in the St. George area
Pest Control in St. George, Utah
Twenty of the 28 scorpion calls in our entire Utah record are in Washington County, and ants are better than one in four St. George calls. A technician lives in the area, so we treat for the desert you actually live in.
Text (385) 425-1766 with a question or a photo of the bug, and we will get back to you, free, usually same day.
Almost everything Beeline treats in Utah is north of Cedar City. St. George is not.
We run Washington County on a regular route, we have logged 191 appointments in St. George so far, and one of our technicians now lives in the St. George area. Our office is still in Clearfield, 29 years and counting, but nobody drives five hours to treat your house. The volume down here is modest today and growing.
That matters more here than anywhere else we work, because the bugs are not the same bugs.
County data
Because St. George sits so far out, we look at the whole county
One hundred ninety one appointments tells you what people call about, not stable rates for every pest. So the numbers below pool all of Washington County: 351 appointments carrying 305 logged pest codes across 14 towns: St. George, Washington, Hurricane, New Harmony, Ivins, Santa Clara, Pine Valley, Brookside, Springdale, La Verkin, Dammeron Valley, Toquerville, Veyo and Central.
The chart and the next two sections are county-level data, not city-level, and record what people call about rather than what lives in the dirt.
Scroll the chart sideways to see the full scale →
Not sure what you are looking at?
Text us a question or a photo of the bug. We will identify it and tell you whether it needs treating or not, free, usually the same day.
The big one
Scorpions: work we do here and essentially nowhere else in Utah
Our entire Utah service record contains 28 logged scorpion calls. Twenty are in Washington County: St. George 13, Washington 4, Hurricane 2, Ivins 1. Add New Harmony next door in Iron County and southern Utah holds 21 of the 28. The Wasatch Front, where we run tens of thousands of appointments, produced four scattered one-offs.
Normally we would not build a section on a count that small. But this is a presence, not a rate: scorpions are either in your part of Utah or they are not, and here they are.
Utah State University Extension lists nine scorpion species, most of them southern. Two are worth knowing. The big one is the desert hairy scorpion, Hadrurus arizonensis: dark body, tan gold legs, up to about five inches, burrowing in washes and hunting at night. USU places it in southwestern Utah and the Park Service lists it at Zion. It stings if cornered but is not considered dangerous to a healthy adult.
The one to identify is the Arizona bark scorpion, Centruroides: two to three inches, slender tail, pale to mottled. USU calls it the only scorpion in Utah potentially harmful to people, with symptoms that usually subside within 48 hours and more concern for small children and older adults. Its Utah range is in the southern counties. If someone is stung and reacts beyond local pain, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222.
What actually works. The University of Arizona’s IPM program is blunt: pest-proofing the structure cuts scorpion contact far more than spraying does. Bark scorpions climb, so they arrive over block fence and through roof eaves, not just under the door. USU’s list is the same: seal doors and windows, caulk foundation cracks, pull rock piles and firewood back from the house, and stop leaving shoes and towels outside overnight. Scorpions also fluoresce under a blacklight, so a UV flashlight on a warm night teaches you more about your yard than we can over the phone.
What else Washington County calls us about
Ants are the biggest everyday job: 71 logged codes, 23.3% of the county mix against 13.6% across the rest of our Utah service area, roughly 1.7 times our usual share.
Mice are close behind: 63 codes, 20.7% against 10.6% elsewhere, close to double. That surprises people who file rodents under cold weather, but no hard winter ends the season here, so mice work subdivision edges all year.
Spiders are 71 codes, 23.3%, below our 32.1% service-area share. Bees are 10 codes, a soft signal at that count.
The other side of the list
What Washington County does not get
Wasps. Up north they are one of the two or three biggest things we treat all summer. Here they are 22 logged codes, 7.2% against 16.8% across the rest of our service area, well under half.
Box elder bugs. Twelve codes, 3.9% against 10.1% elsewhere. They breed on female seed-bearing boxelder trees, and the Mojave does not grow them. Palms, oleander, mesquite and rock mulch do not produce the October wall-massing that defines fall in Bountiful.
The reason is the ecoregion. St. George sits around 2,800 feet in the northeasternmost corner of the Mojave Desert, where the Mojave, the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau meet along the Virgin River: nine inches of rain a year, about 300 sunny days, and over 100 plants and animals that live nowhere else in Utah.
Which means there is no off season. Up north we hand people a spring to fall calendar. Here, ants and scorpions ramp through spring, scorpions peak on warm summer nights, mice press indoors in fall and keep going, and January is slow rather than empty.
St. George itself, in its own numbers
On its own 191 appointments St. George logged 154 pest codes. Two things stand out, and we will not stretch past them.
Ants are the single most common call: 48 of those 154 codes, 31.2% of the city mix against 13.6% across the rest of our service area. Call a pest company and the odds are better than one in four it is ants.
Scorpions are 13 of the 154, 8.4% of everything logged here, and the number that does not exist anywhere else on our map.
Spiders are 40 codes and mice 25. Everything else sits under 10 logs, which is noise.
Why a St. George homeowner should call us
Why St. George homeowners call Beeline
Locally owned, 29 years in Utah, 2,300+ five-star reviews, no hidden charges. Quarterly service covers everything on this page, scorpions included, and if something comes back between visits, so do we. With a technician in the area, same-week scheduling across St. George, Washington, Hurricane, Ivins and Santa Clara is normal.
Get a free quote: (801) 544-9200, or text us at (385) 425-1766.
Also on our Washington County route:
A St. George pest control calendar
What we are treating, and when. The highlighted row is where we are today.
| When | What matters in St. George |
|---|---|
| December, January, February | Slow rather than empty. Mice keep working subdivision edges. |
| March, April, May | Ants and scorpions ramp up as it warms. |
| June, July, August | Scorpions peak on warm summer nights. A blacklight check of the yard shows what is out there. |
| September, October, November | Mice press indoors, and keep going. |
Before you book
St. George pest control questions we actually get asked
Do you really come all the way down to St. George?
Yes, on a regular route, and one of our technicians lives in the St. George area. We have logged 191 appointments in St. George and 351 across Washington County, and the number is growing. Our office and phones stay in Clearfield, but nobody drives down from Davis County to treat your house.
Do you charge more because I am in southern Utah?
No. Pricing matches the rest of our Utah service area, because the route is already running.
How often do you come out, and what if I get scorpions between visits?
Quarterly, and if something shows up between visits we come back and retreat at no extra charge. That applies to scorpions the same as to ants.
Are the scorpions here actually dangerous?
Mostly no, but one deserves respect. USU Extension names the Arizona bark scorpion as the only scorpion in Utah potentially harmful to people, and its range is in the southern counties. The larger desert hairy scorpion stings but is not considered dangerous to a healthy adult. If someone is stung and reacts beyond local pain, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222.
Why does everyone up north complain about wasps and box elder bugs when I barely see either?
Different desert. Wasps are 7.2% of the codes we log in Washington County against 16.8% across the rest of our service area, box elder bugs 3.9% against 10.1%. Box elder bugs breed on female seed-bearing boxelder trees, which Mojave landscaping does not supply.
Why am I getting mice in the desert?
Because the season never ends. Mouse calls are 20.7% of the Washington County mix against 10.6% across the rest of our service area, close to twice the rate. Without a hard winter, rodents work subdivision edges all year instead of pushing in once in October.
Three ways to get a St. George quote
All of them free, all of them with a real person at our Clearfield office.
- 1Send us a photo(385) 425-1766. Fastest answer.
- 2Call us(801) 544-9200. Mon to Fri 7:30am to 7:00pm, Sat 7:30am to 4:00pm.
- 3Fill in the formSend a picture of the bug or the damage and we will tell you what it is and what it costs.