I've lived in Vegas since 1990 and had never seen a scorpion until we moved into this house on Sunrise Mountain. Then I found out the whole area is infested with them. Our house had them, inside and out. I thought there couldn't be anything worse than getting woken up by having a scorpion sting your hand, it hurts like a wasp sting, and it happened to me several times the first year. But I was wrong. Going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and getting stung on the bottom by a scorpion that was hiding under the toilet seat is worse. So as you can imagine, I wanted to take care of the scorpion problem at my house as fast and as thoroughly as possible. I hired another company and got their best service for a year, and I saw absolutely no improvement. Then I tried another company, same thing. Both companies were both willing to come out as many times as I wanted, and I called them many extra times, but we still had scorpions. The strategy they explained to me was that by killing the bugs that scorpions feed on, the scorpions would no longer come around. But they weren't even good at doing this. I still had cockroaches and water bugs inside the watering system valve boxes. Then I tried Bulwark. The next day after their first visit, I saw a dead scorpion on my walkway and another that was upside down and dying in the garage. At last I knew I had found the right company. Before Bulwark, I was catching several scorpions per week in sticky traps in my house. Now I rarely catch one, and only right inside the door. I never catch any upstairs in the bedroom any more. So I can confidently say that the situation has improved a lot. And I don't see cockroaches, ants, etc any more either.
Our tech for numerous visits has been Ed Sakugawa. He always does a thorough job and answers all my questions. My wife has extensive landscaping and she raises a fit if anyone breaks a leaf, but Ed is super careful and takes great care not to disturb anything. We appreciate all he has done to take care of our awful bug problems. We'll be a Bulwark customer as long as we stay in Vegas.
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I have to amend this review. Due to EPA restrictions, they stopped applying chemical to the entire property, and only sprayed a small area around the house foundation. As I started seeing 2 or 3 scorpions in the sticky traps inside the house every week, I suspected the outside situation was getting worse again. I called for a respray and got the same treatment, just around the foundation. I went online and bought a black light flashlight and went out after dark. Imagine my shock when I was able to find and kill 20 scorpions within an hour, they were everywhere. I went out the next night, and again, in about an hour, I killed 20 more. My property was totally overrun. I fired Bulwark and ordered my own chemical online, and went to Home Depot and bought a 5-gallon backpack sprayer, and started spraying the whole property myself. In two follow-up calls from Bulwark, they tried to get me back as a customer, offering reduced rates to come out again. They gave me their sales pitch, explaining all the services they would provide, and how it it so difficult to kill scorpions because of their hard exoskeleton, and because their body is off the ground and so doesn't contact the chemicals very much. I told them how disappointed I was in how ineffective their service had become and that I was going to try it my way now. It has been a year now since I took over. I've sprayed once a month. I continued seeing many scorpions for a couple months, but as time went by, fewer inside the house. It's now been two months since I've caught a new one in the sticky traps. When I go out at night with the black light flashlight, in an hour I can always find one, maybe two scorpions. I'm looking forward to the day when I can't find any at all, but the situation has definitely improved. I understand why Bulwark became ineffective, the EPA has inspectors who check how much chemical they use and even has observers to watch them on the job. Bulwark's hands are tied. I just think everyone should know their limits now; they're no help when it comes to scorpions. read more