Bug Blasters Pest Control was founded in 2003, runs out of two Washington County offices — one in St. George on 3050 East and one in Hurricane on 400 South — and is run by three Bergesons: Larry, Bron, and Braydon. That kind of multi-generational ownership publicly named on the company’s own site rather than buried in Utah business filings is rare in the pest segment, where most shops hide behind generic LLC names and stock photography.
The Southern Utah pest list, with scorpions on it
The service mix is the standard regional list — spiders, ants, cockroaches, rodents, termites, bed bugs, wasps and bees — plus wildlife removal and weed control. Scorpions get their own line item, which they have to: bark and Arizona scorpions are real residents of St. George, Washington, Hurricane, and Ivins, and any pest operator who’s been in this market more than a couple of years will price a scorpion-specific exterior treatment separately from the general perimeter work. The seasonal cricket waves get the same treatment in late summer.
A two-office Washington County footprint
The dual-office setup is unusual for a small pest operator and gives the company physical presence in both halves of the county — the St. George core and the Hurricane corridor that runs out toward Sand Hollow and Zion. The full radius covers all of Washington County (Washington, Santa Clara, La Verkin, Leeds, Toquerville, Enterprise, plus the obvious anchors), reaches up to Cedar City and over to Kanab, and crosses the line into Mesquite.
No contracts, same-day, 485 five-star reviews
The site explicitly markets the two attributes the national chains keep trying to compete on: no contracts, same-day service. The 485-plus five-star Google reviews are consistent with a long-tenured local shop that hasn’t been chain-acquired — at twenty-two years in, Bug Blasters has had every opportunity to sell to a regional rollup and didn’t.
For the 435, this is one of the cleanest candidates in the pest segment: named family ownership across three generations, two Utah offices, twenty-two-year tenure, and the kind of regional radius that actually covers Kanab instead of just claiming to.