The latest pest control news across Texas — invasive species alerts, health advisories, regulation changes, industry trends, and prevention tips from expert sources.
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New species alerts, spread tracking, and warnings about spotted lanternfly, crazy ants, Africanized bees, and other invasive pests in Texas.
Disease outbreaks, pesticide safety recalls, and public health advisories related to pests — West Nile, Chagas, dengue, Zika, and more.
New laws, EPA bans, TPCL licensing changes, tenant rights, company fines, and regulatory updates affecting pest control in Texas.
Mergers & acquisitions, IPOs, bankruptcies, new franchises, market trends, and workforce updates across the pest control industry.
Seasonal pest prevention advice, DIY methods, when to call a professional, and cost guides for Texas homeowners.
Drones, AI-powered traps, IoT monitoring, new pesticide formulations, IPM innovations, and organic pest control methods.
Texas Parks and Wildlife opened a month-long signup for grassland money that pays landowners in 30 counties to take out brush and weeds on private land.
A bill filed in Austin would let Texans keep raccoons as pets under a state permit, but the rabies protocol stops at dogs, cats and domestic ferrets.
Federal data now puts the Southwest outbreak at 128 animal cases, up 62 percent in ten days, and the monthly series behind that jump is the part worth reading.
A committee in Waco consolidated 200-plus resolutions for the December delegate vote, and three of them are aimed squarely at animals farmers cannot shoot, spray or fence out.
USDA opens hiring for the Edinburg sterile fly plant with a three-day fair in McAllen, and the headcount is the first public number for how the place will be run.
Two orders signed Tuesday added four counties to the restricted list, taking it from 21 to 25, and put a screwworm zone on the Bexar County line.
Three projects led by the state's soil and water board will cover 2.7 million acres over five years, roughly $2.30 an acre across the life of the work.
Texas A&M has trained military medical entomologists for more than 70 years, on a doctoral clock built around deployment orders rather than academic calendars.
Three years into the outbreak, Panama and Mexico together make under a third of the sterile flies the 1960s campaign used, and Texas's own plant is months away.
Texas has over 7,700 licensed pest control businesses and faces pest pressure year-round across its 254 counties. Regulations change, new species arrive, disease vectors shift patterns, and the industry itself is consolidating faster than most homeowners realize. Staying informed is not optional — it directly affects what treatments are available, what they cost, and whether your provider is operating legally.
We monitor primary sources that matter for Texas residents and pest management professionals: Texas Department of Agriculture enforcement actions and licensing updates, EPA Federal Register pesticide decisions, DSHS vector surveillance reports, USDA APHIS quarantine notices, CDC MMWR disease data, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension research, NPMA industry surveys, and SEC filings from publicly traded pest control companies. Every article links to its original source so you can verify the data independently.
Coverage is organized into six categories — each focused on a distinct area of pest control that affects Texas differently. Whether you are a homeowner checking if your county has a new mosquito-borne disease advisory, a property manager tracking regulation changes, or an industry professional following market consolidation, you can go directly to the category that matters to you.
How often is this newsroom updated?
New articles appear whenever primary-source Texas pest news warrants coverage — typically several per month during peak pest seasons (spring and fall) and fewer during the summer and winter lulls. The full archive plus category filters is available here.
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