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Katy sits on former rice prairie along Interstate 10, and Precision Pest Control treats the houses and businesses that grew up on it, from Old Towne Katy to Cinco Ranch, Grand Lakes, Seven Meadows and Firethorne. Plans center on fire ants, termites, mosquitoes, crazy ants and rodents, and inspections for termites and other pests are available for new builds and resales across Greater Katy.
What Precision Pest Control offers
Katy's newest streets sit on prairie soil that held fire ants and termites long before the sod went down, and pest control starts with that fact. Precision Pest Control works for Katy homeowners and businesses. Eco-friendly products do the work, and the estimate is free with plans beginning at $57.
Home service for Katy's master-planned neighborhoods and older streets, with attention to fire ant mounds in sunny lawns, termites near slabs and mosquitoes after big rains.
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Plans for Katy businesses along the I-10 corridor and in Old Towne, from restaurants and offices to retail and warehouse space with doors, docks and dumpsters.
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Buying new in Cinco Ranch or reselling in Nottingham Country? Our termite and pest inspection hands Katy buyers and sellers their findings in writing.
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What we treat
From Rice Prairie to Rooftops: Pests in Katy Homes
Red imported fire ants
Texas A&M AgriLife describes the fire ant as a builder of open, sunny ground, and few places are sunnier than a newly sodded lot. Colonies shift often, which is why a mound can appear overnight beside a sidewalk or slab. They also move into utility housings, where they damage transformer boxes, air conditioning units and relay switches. A disturbed mound empties in seconds, and each worker bites to hold on before it stings.
Subterranean termites
Subterranean termites normally live in the top 4 to 6 inches of soil, feeding on dead roots, brush and fallen wood. AgriLife explains that when land is cleared and built on, they often switch to the wood in the structure. A mature native colony holds about 250,000 workers and takes three to five years to reach that size, so a house can look fine for years before swarmers or mud tubes show up. Statewide, the extension service puts annual termite damage near $500 million.
Floodwater and Culex mosquitoes
Floodwater mosquitoes lay their eggs on damp ground, not on water, and the eggs wait for the next big rain. AgriLife entomologists say the eggs can lie dormant two to five years, then hatch into large, aggressive biters that feed from dawn to dusk. Culex mosquitoes come later, when ditches and storm drains stagnate. Both Harris County and Fort Bend County trap and test mosquitoes for West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis in the Katy area's two largest counties.
Tawny crazy ants
Harris and Fort Bend counties both have confirmed populations of the tawny crazy ant. No mating flights have been seen in the field; colonies spread by budding at the edges, about 20 meters a month through a neighborhood, or much faster when people move them. AgriLife advises inspecting potted plants, mulch, compost and yard debris before bringing them onto a property. The ants nest under landscape timbers, stones and anything else that keeps the soil beneath it damp.
Rats and house mice
Three rodents live with people in Texas: the Norway rat, the roof rat and the house mouse. The mouse is the smallest, 5 to 8 inches long with its tail, and the most prolific, with about 13 litters a year. Mice nest in stored paper, upholstered furniture and even cabinet drawers. One house mouse leaves some 3,000 tiny droplets of urine a day, AgriLife reports, which is why food surfaces need protecting first. Traps work as well as poison baits but take more labor.
Spotted something?
The first warm, wet weeks bring floodwater mosquitoes out of roadside ditches and low pasture, followed within days by container-breeding species around houses. Fire ant queens make mating flights on afternoons after rain, and new mounds follow. Termite swarmers on a windowsill or caught in a spider web indoors point to an active colony in the structure.
Summers on the prairie are hot and humid. When heat combines with drought, AgriLife notes that fire ants can seem to disappear from a lawn and then surface indoors, and that rodents, roaches and other pests follow the search for water and cooler air. Fix dripping faucets and air conditioner leaks. Crazy ant numbers are highest in July and August.
Fall brings a second round of fire ant mating flights, and bait still works on days between 65 and 95 degrees. Norway rats produce most of their young in spring and fall. Winters are generally mild to cool, so mice and rats that have moved into garages and attics tend to stay.
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8 questions answered
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Katy's lawns offer what red imported fire ants look for: open, sunny, irrigated ground in the eastern two-thirds of Texas, where the species is established. Multiple-queen colonies can reach 200 or more mounds per acre, and colonies relocate frequently, so treating one mound rarely settles it. Texas A&M AgriLife favors a broadcast bait over the whole lawn once or twice a year, with individual treatment for mounds in high-traffic spots.
Yes. Texas A&M AgriLife says the best time to protect a house is before and during construction, by treating the soil under and around the foundation before the slab is poured. After the build, all form boards and stakes should come out of the ground. AgriLife adds that termite baits are approved for pre-construction use in Texas but are not its recommended method for a new structure.
Yes, it is detected in mosquitoes here most years. Fort Bend County Environmental Health had confirmed West Nile virus activity 152 times in its unincorporated areas by its 2026 update, along with one St. Louis encephalitis finding. About 80 percent of infected people never feel sick, according to Texas health officials, but roughly 1 in 150 develops severe illness affecting the brain or spinal cord.
Katy plans start at $57, and a new slab in Cinco Ranch needs different attention than an older house near Old Towne. An estimate comes at no charge before any plan is chosen. The plan then reflects lot size and the pests that are active.
Yes, businesses along I-10 and in Old Towne Katy can use Precision Pest Control as well. Restaurants, offices, retail and warehouse space each bring their own pest risks, so describe the building when you ask for the estimate and we will fit the plan to it.
Inspections are a common part of Katy sales. Under Texas law a formal inspection is accompanied by a Wood Destroying Insect report, and ours lists findings clearly enough for buyers, sellers and agents to work from before closing. Ask for the inspection when you list or when you make an offer.
Yes, eco-friendly products are used on residential and commercial properties in Katy. Lakes and drainage ditches wind through many Greater Katy neighborhoods, which makes it worth mentioning pets, children or a garden as you set up the estimate. The estimate costs nothing.
Contact us for the estimate, which costs nothing, on our site or by calling (512) 561-7451. Mention what you have noticed around the property, and once you select a plan from $57 you can book the first visit online. Questions are welcome before you commit.
Katy began as a railroad and rice town on the coastal prairie west of Houston and is now surrounded by new subdivisions. Houses set on open grassland sit on top of the fire ants and subterranean termites that were in the soil first.
Katy stands where Harris, Fort Bend and Waller counties meet, 29 miles west of downtown Houston on Interstate 10 and about 138 feet above sea level. The city proper counted 21,894 residents in the 2020 census. Greater Katy, the territory of the 181-square-mile Katy Independent School District, is far bigger and takes in communities such as Cinco Ranch, Grand Lakes, Seven Meadows and Firethorne.
James Oliver Thomas laid out the town in 1895 beside the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, the K-T that gave the place its name. Early settlers contended with hot summers and thick clay soil, but rice did well; the first concrete rice driers in Texas were built here in 1944 and still stand as landmarks. Buffalo Bayou rises near Katy, and the opening of Interstate 10 in 1966 brought Houston's growth out across the prairie.
Local field notes
What our technicians check first on a Katy property
Unique to Katy
Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Katy details that shape every plan we write here.
A slab is easiest to protect before it exists. AgriLife calls pre-construction the one time in the life of a structure when the soil beneath the slab can be treated, and says the application should cover all of that soil, not just the plumbing penetrations, with the outside perimeter treated after final grading. Texas law requires a Wood Destroying Insect report with each formal inspection or treatment, plus a sticker under the kitchen sink, on the electrical box or on the water heater showing the company and date.
If you are buying an existing house, look for that sticker and ask for the report. Soil treatments protect for roughly five years, so a home in an older section of Greater Katy may be due. Outside, grading should carry water away from the foundation, and shrubs should not be planted tight against the walls.
Get a free Katy estimate from Precision Pest Control through our online form, choose a service date online, or dial (512) 561-7451; eco-friendly plans begin at $57.
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