Scorpion Control in Houston, TX

Scorpions surprise Houston homeowners — the city is better known for mosquitoes and roaches — but the striped bark scorpion is well established across the metro's wooded north and west sides. Kingwood, The Woodlands, Cypress, Spring, and the piney-woods neighborhoods along Lake Houston see regular encounters, and scorpions also hitchhike into the inner city inside landscape materials, firewood, and moving boxes from the Hill Country.

Houston's climate works in the scorpion's favor: the long warm season keeps them active from March well into November, and the region's dense, irrigated landscaping provides both harborage and a year-round buffet of crickets and roaches. They shelter in leaf litter, pine bark mulch, and landscape timbers by day, then climb exterior walls at night and slip inside through weep holes, door thresholds, and gaps around utility lines.

Control is a layered job: residual perimeter treatment, crack-and-crevice application into harborage sites, exclusion of entry points, and reducing the prey insects that draw scorpions in. Initial treatment typically costs $200 to $400, with maintenance visits at $75 to $150. A UV blacklight inspection after dark — scorpions fluoresce blue-green — is the fastest way to gauge pressure around your foundation. The companies below hold active Texas Pest Control (P) licenses.