The desert climate of Las Vegas tends to attract one of the scarier pests – scorpions. However, there is no need to fear these scary looking bugs if you have the right strategy in place and the right professionals by your side. Here are some tips to keep from unknowingly inviting scorpions into your life.

Keep Firewood Outside

One of the hidden nesting grounds for scorpions in Las Vegas is in firewood, especially firewood that is damp or rotted out. When you bring this firewood inside during the winter and keep it in your living room, you are bringing scorpions in with you. They are small, and they hide, so you may not detect them just by looking. You will see them later! Keep firewood outside until you are ready to burn it during the winter, and do not keep your stash of firewood by any of the doors or windows to your home.

Prevent Other Pests

Scorpions can be a great help to you – if they stay in the outer reaches of your yard. That stinger that can poison humans is really meant for other pests like rats and spiders. These pests make a great meal for a scorpion. Unfortunately, if those pests find a way into your home, the scorpion may follow. Make sure that you are preventing the smaller, less dangerous pests from entering your home by giving your residence a preventive sweep from a professional company like Preventive Pest Control.

Unkempt Lawns

Scorpions love to hide and nest in tall grass and unkempt bushes just as much as they love to nest in firewood. The difference is that hedges and grass are always going to be just outside your door. It behooves you to keep it as well kempt as possible, because the natural movement of scorpions that are in this tall grass or hiding in the bushes will bring them into your home before long. Again, you may not be able to notice this, but you will eventually see it when you least expect it, as the critter finds its way into your bedroom at night!

There is absolutely no need to get stung when you have Las Vegas scorpion control specialists like Preventive Pest Control on your team. Our proprietary methods will make sure that you never see any of those creepy crawlies around your residence. Although we can definitely get rid of scorpions once you see them, we also love to prevent their infestation in the first place. Call us before you see pests in Las Vegas, and we will make sure that you never see them!