Pest Control in Georgetown, TX You Can Actually Rely On

It depends on where the house sits. On the west side, toward Sun City or Cimarron Hills, the limestone and loose rock bring in striped bark scorpions, worst from June through August. Elsewhere fire ants are the constant complaint, moving indoors through a slab crack when the ground dries out, and roof rats working in from the attic rather than up from underneath, since a crawl space is unusual outside Old Town. The licensed pros we connect you with will ask what you're seeing and where before naming a single service.

West of I-35, Georgetown sits on Edwards limestone with loose rock and thin soil, and the striped bark scorpion lives in that rock. It comes inside looking for moisture, so bathrooms, laundry rooms and kitchens are where people find it, coming under a door or through a weep hole. Neighborhoods backing onto a greenbelt or built on that limestone side, like Sun City or Cimarron Hills, see more of it. April through October is the active stretch, worst in June, July and August. The licensed pros we connect you with can seal entry points and treat around the foundation.

That's the striped bark scorpion, the one that shows up in Georgetown bathrooms and laundry rooms more than anywhere else in the house. It's thin enough to squeeze through gaps most people never check and it heads for moisture, which is exactly what a bathroom offers. Activity runs heaviest from June through August, and homes backing onto a greenbelt or sitting on the limestone west of I-35, around Sun City or Cimarron Hills, tend to see more of them. Sealing entry points and drying up damp spots helps more than treating after the fact.

No. Formosan subterranean termites are confirmed in roughly 30 Texas counties in the eastern half of the state, including Travis County next door, but Williamson County is not one of them. Georgetown's termite pressure comes from native subterranean species, not Formosan colonies. If Formosan activity ever moves this direction, it's worth watching, and it would swarm in summer rather than spring. For now, a homeowner near Sun City or Old Town with termite concerns is dealing with a native species, and the licensed pros we connect you with can confirm which one on an inspection.

Subterranean termites work this area, and slab cracks near Wolf Ranch or Berry Creek give them a way in without ever showing themselves above ground. The aggressive Formosan type has not turned up in Williamson County, so that particular worry belongs to counties south of us, not here. A yearly inspection is still worth booking, since the common native termites are patient and quiet, and a soft spot in a door frame or baseboard is often the first sign anyone notices.

Scorpions get the most panic calls in Georgetown, and the striped bark scorpion is the one showing up in bathrooms and laundry rooms from April through October, worst in June and July. It is thin enough to squeeze through gaps most homeowners never check — a loose weep hole, a warped threshold, a sill that has dried and pulled away from the slab. Homes near a greenbelt, or anywhere close to the limestone on the west side of I-35, tend to see more of them, since loose rock and cedar cover suit them. The licensed pros we connect you with check those entry points along with the exterior before treating.

Yes, though not everyone connects it to pests right away. Scorpions come under doors and through weep holes into bathrooms and laundry rooms from April through October, worst in June, July and August, and fire ant mounds can pop up in a lawn within a day or two after rain anywhere from Berry Creek to Teravista. Roof rats are the other one — they get in near the roofline, not the foundation, so an attic or soffit gap matters more than a slab crack. Fall brings the cricket swarms around lit porches and storefronts near Wolf Ranch Town Center. None of it is unusual for Georgetown.

Probably not. Most Georgetown homes built since the 1970s, including places like Sun City, Teravista and Berry Creek, sit on a solid slab, so there's no crawl space or vent to seal. Crawl spaces and pier-and-beam construction mostly show up in Old Town and older stock out toward the Square. If pests are getting in, look at slab cracks and weep holes instead, especially after rain when fire ants and scorpions push toward any gap they can find.

Not yet. Formosan subterranean termites are confirmed in the eastern half of Texas, including Travis County just south of us, but Williamson County isn't on that list. It's worth knowing they exist one county over and that they swarm in summer rather than spring, so it's not something to ignore forever. But writing your Georgetown home up for Formosan damage right now would be borrowing a problem from Round Rock or Austin. The termites actually worth watching for here are the native subterranean kind, which the licensed pros we connect you with can check for around your slab.

Fire ants are the complaint we hear most between Sun City and Cimarron Hills. A lawn can look clean one week and carry a dozen mounds the next, since the colonies build fast after rain moves through the caliche and limestone west of I-35. In a stretch without rain, some of those same colonies push indoors through a crack in the slab, so a dry summer is not a break from the problem, just a change in where it shows up.