Field research · Phoenix metro

Phoenix scorpion activity is climbing.

Pest Science Group has tracked the Phoenix metro since 1999, turning field observation into science residents can read and use.

Featured dataset1999-2025

Scorpion activity in the Phoenix metro area

201120231999200820172025
Representative index. Full dataset pending publication.Activity index
Featured studyField-basedLongitudinal

Scorpion activity in the Phoenix metro area, 1999-2025

For more than two decades, seasonal field counts, service records, and homeowner reports across greater Phoenix have been gathered into a single long-run picture: how bark scorpion activity moves with heat, growth, and the built edge of the desert. It is the work Pest Science Group exists to share.

27
Seasons observed

Across the 1999-2025 window.

Phoenix
Study region

The greater metropolitan valley.

~4×
Activity index

Representative rise across the window.

Year-round
Tracking

Season by season, not just summer.

Figures marked “~” are representative and will be replaced with the published dataset.

Latest research

Evidence first. Then what to do about it.

All studies & field notes
Method

Reading a home like a system

The walk-through protocol behind every assessment: what we look at, in what order, and why sequence matters.

PSG Research · 7 min readRead
Analysis

Why Phoenix, why now

Heat, sprawl, and the built edge of the desert. The forces pushing scorpion activity into more neighborhoods each season.

PSG Research · 9 min readRead

Georgia Clubb

Business Director & Co-Founder · The visionary behind the program

A third-generation Arizonan, Georgia Clubb co-founded Seal Out Scorpions and directs the program that turns years of desert field experience into a public record of how scorpions behave around Arizona homes.

Her focus is the resident's side of the science. She makes sure the questions the team studies are the ones families actually live with: where scorpions get in, when activity peaks, and what genuinely keeps a home sealed.

Would a resident understand it, trust it, and know what to do next?

Third-generation ArizonanCo-founderResident-focused research
Read her full profile

How we work

Four commitments behind every finding.

01

Science informed

We lead with evidence, explain the why, and make expertise genuinely useful, not decorative.

02

Systems based

A home is a system. We study relationships and root causes, not isolated symptoms.

03

Resident focused

Every finding is written to be understood, trusted, and acted on by the people who live with it.

04

Environment minded

We weigh effective protection against responsible, proportionate ecological choices.

1999-2025
Study period

Twenty-seven seasons of scorpion-activity observation across the Phoenix metro.

~4×
Activity index

Representative rise across the record, pending publication of the full dataset.

Open
Access

Findings written to be used by the residents they affect, not locked behind jargon.