Pest Control

For the quest, see  [15-30] Pest Control.

• 10
• Pest Control
• Slay the following pests.
• Criteria:
  • Adder
  • Devouring Maggot
  • Fjord Rat
  • Larva
  • Moccasin
  • Rat
  • Scorpid
  • Spider
  • Underbelly Rat
  • Crystal Spider
  • Fire Beetle
  • Gold Beetle
  • Maggot
  • Mouse
  • Roach
  • Snake
  • Squirrel
  • Zul'Drak Rat

Pest Control is an exploration achievement earned for killing pests across Azeroth.

It involves killing a variety of pest-like critters in the game.

Locations

Critter	Location
Adder	Durotar; The Barrens; Hellfire Peninsula
Crystal Spider	The Nexus; Oculus
Devouring Maggot	Utgarde Catacombs, Howling Fjord
Fire Beetle	Burning Steppes; Searing Gorge; Shattered Halls, Hellfire Citadel
Fjord Rat	Howling Fjord
Gold Beetle	Halls of Stone and Halls of Lightning, Ulduar
Larva	Ghostlands; Naxxramas
Maggot	Ghostlands; Halgrind (in Howling Fjord, near the pool in the center of the village)
Moccasin	Swamp of Sorrows in the waterways near the Pool of Tears
Mouse	Westfall†, Grizzly Hills, hill just above Venture Bay
Rat	All over Azeroth
Roach	All over Azeroth
Scorpid	All over Azeroth and Outland
Snake	All over Azeroth
Spider	All over Azeroth
Squirrel	All over Azeroth
Underbelly Rat	Underbelly, Dalaran
Zul'Drak Rat	Zul'Drak

^† Found at any farmstead. You may need to kill the prairie dogs to get the mouse to spawn.

Strategy

Macro

There's a useful (and amusing) macro you can use to help pin point the exact critter once you're in the vicinity. Unfortunately this macro exceeds the 255 character limit imposed on macros. A workaround is to either leave out the last 3 lines completely or to only include pests you still need (assuming a partially completed achievement).

/tar Adder
/tar Devouring Maggot
/tar Fjord Rat
/tar Larva
/tar Moccasin
/tar Rat
/tar Scorpid
/tar Spider
/tar Zul'Drak Rat 
/tar Crystal Spider 
/tar Fire Beetle
/tar Gold Beetle
/tar Maggot
/tar Mouse
/tar Roach
/tar Snake
/tar Underbelly Rat
/stopmacro [noexists]
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Ragnaros\\RagnarosSlay01.wav")
/tell YourNameHere >>> %t <<<

Route

This is a combination strategy for the following achievements:

•  To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before
•  To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life
•  Pest Control

Howling Fjord

1. Kill: Devouring Maggot, Utgarde Catacombs ^[57, 55], on the bottom pit with all the ghouls
2. /love: Fjord Turkey, ^[67, 67]
3. /love: Fjord Penguin, ^[66, 83]
4. /love: Scalawag Frog, ^[36, 80]
5. Kill: Fjord Rat, ^[34, 78] populated areas
6. Kill: Roach, ^[36, 11]

Grizzly Hills

1. /love: Mountain Skunk, abundant throughout the zone
2. /love: Grizzly Squirrel, abundant throughout the zone

Zul'Drak

1. /love: Arctic Hare, ^[74, 70]
2. Kill: Zul'Drak Rat, Amphitheater ^[45, 63]

Naxxramas

1. Kill: Spider, entrance
2. Kill: Maggot, entrance
3. Kill: Rat, abundant through the zone
4. Kill: Larva, Plague Wing

Storm Peaks

1. Kill: Gold Beetle: Halls of Lightning just behind entrance

Icecrown

1. /love: Glacier Penguin, ^[69, 20]

Sholazar Basin

1. /love: Sholazar Tickbird, ^[27, 60], near the Nesingwary Base Camp

Borean Tundra

1. /love: Borean Marmot, abundant throughout the zone
2. /love: Tundra Penguin, ^[38, 9]
3. Kill: Crystal Spider, Nexus around  Keristrasza
4. /love: Borean Frog ^[70, 29]
5. /love: Steam Frog ^[68, 41]

Dalaran

1. Kill: Underbelly Rat - Dalaran, The Underbelly
2. Now take the portal to Shattrath

Shattrath City

1. /love: Chicken, ^[58, 69]
2. /love: Ewe, ^[58, 23]

Terokkar Forest

1. /love and kill: Squirrel
2. /love: Skunk

Zangarmarsh

1. /love: Crab
2. /love: Small Frog ^[82, 85]

Hellfire Peninsula

1. Kill: Adder, ^[17, 48]
2. Kill: Scorpion, ^[18, 47]
3. Now go back to Shattrath
4. Horde take the portal to Orgrimmar, Alliance take the portal to Stormwind
5. From Orgrimmar, take the portal to the Blasted Lands and run to Swamp of Sorrows

From Stormwind, take the portal to the Blasted Lands and run to Swamp of Sorrows

Swamp of Sorrows

1. Kill: Moccasin, ^[48, 45]
2. /love: Huge Toad, ^[45, 46]
3. Run back to your faction's flight master and fly to Thorium Point in Searing Gorge

Searing Gorge

1. Kill: Fire Beetle, ^[44, 40]
2. /love: Lava Crab, ^[43, 35]
3. Alliance Fly to Sentinel Hill in Westfall, should fly to Grom'Gol then run on foot to Westfall

Westfall

1. These three are scattered through the zone, with the mouse being the most rare
2. Kill: Mouse, throughout zone
3. /love: Prairie Dog, throughout zone
4. Kill: Snake, throughout zone

Elwynn Forest

1. /love: Fawn, ^[24, 83]
2. /love: Deer, ^[24, 82]
3. /love: Cow, ^[26, 75]
4. /love: Rabbit, ^[26, 77]
5. /love: Cat, ^[44, 52]
6. /love: Sheep, ^[65, 76]
7. Alliance should head to Wetlands, Horde may want to travel to Wetlands last, so they can come from Undercity

Wetlands

1. /love: Toad, ^[49, 58]
2. /love: Ram, ^[49, 69]
3. Travel to Barrens first if Alliance, or Durotar first if Horde

Barrens

1. /love: Gazelle, ^[48, 58]
2. /love: Swine, ^[53, 20]

Durotar

1. /love: Hare, throughout zone

Un'goro Crater

1. /love: Parrot, ^[50, 17]

See also

1.  [To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before]
2.  [To All The Squirrels Who Shared My Life]
3.  [To All the Squirrels Who Cared for Me]
4.  [To All the Squirrels I Once Caressed?]
5.  [Pest Control]

Patch changes

• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Moved to Exploration category.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Squirrels added to the criteria.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB