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Round Rock customers on both sides of Interstate 35 get Precision Pest Control service for houses, shops and offices, from Old Town and Brushy Creek to Teravista and Paloma Lake, plus inspections for termites and other pests when a home changes hands. Plans follow the ground: fire ants, crazy ants and termites on the black clay of the east side, scorpions among the rocks to the west, and mosquitoes wherever water stands.
What Precision Pest Control offers
A free estimate opens every Round Rock pest control plan, and plans are priced from $57. Eco-friendly products are used for owners of houses, shops and offices from Old Town to Walsh Ranch and Siena.
Home service tuned to the lot, with fire ant, crazy ant, termite, scorpion and mosquito treatment for clay-soil yards east of the interstate and rocky properties to the west.
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Plans for Round Rock businesses and commercial buildings in a city that has grown almost tenfold since 1980, with attention to landscaping, drains and standing water near entrances.
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Whether a Round Rock house sits on Blackland clay or on rocky ground west of I-35, a termite and pest inspection ahead of the sale puts the facts on the table for everyone involved.
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What we treat
Pest Help for Round Rock Homes on Both Sides of Interstate 35
Red imported fire ants
Texas A&M entomologists count 40 to 150 fire ant mounds per acre where colonies have one queen and 200 or more where they have several. Mounds can stand 18 inches tall, depending on the soil. A sting raises a white pustule within a day or two. The ants also move into air conditioning units and transformer boxes, where they damage electrical switches and can knock out power.
Striped bark scorpions
West of I-35 the ground turns rocky, and scorpions spend the day under stones, bark, boards and landscape timbers. The striped bark scorpion is the only one of the state's 18 species found in every part of Texas. It hunts at night, does not burrow and readily climbs walls. Adults glow under a black light, a handy way to check a patio after dark.
Tawny crazy ants
Texas A&M has confirmed tawny crazy ant infestations in Williamson County. The ants build no central nest or mound, and an infested property can hold millions. They spread roughly 20 meters a month through a neighborhood unaided and far faster when people move potted plants, yard debris, hay or compost. Where they are thick they even displace fire ants. Indoor sprays accomplish little because the colonies live outside.
Native subterranean termites
The termite to expect here is the native subterranean termite. A colony matures in three to five years, holds around 250,000 workers and then begins releasing winged swarmers about three eighths of an inch long. Shed wings on a windowsill or mud tubes climbing the foundation are the usual first clues. Texas requires a Wood Destroying Insect report with every formal termite inspection, a legal document worth keeping with the house records.
West Nile and container mosquitoes
State surveillance found West Nile virus in 17 mosquito pools in Williamson County in 2020, along with three human cases. The Culex mosquitoes that carry it breed in stagnant water, and in town much of that water sits unseen in storm drains. Day-biting Aedes mosquitoes use buckets, tires, toys and clogged gutters instead. Dunks made with Bti treat water you cannot drain for up to 30 days and are safe around fish and pets.
Spotted something?
Native termites swarm on spring days, generally from March into May. Paper wasp queens that overwintered begin new nests under eaves, and each rain brings fire ant mounds back into view. Spring is one of the two best windows for broadcasting fire ant bait, once temperatures reach about 70 degrees.
Hot, humid summers send scorpions looking for water and cooler air indoors, and tawny crazy ant numbers swell in July and August. In late August and September field crickets fly to bright lights at night and collect at storefronts and doorways; yellow bulbs draw fewer of them.
Autumn rain and cooler nights push spiders, scorpions and millipedes inside, and tiny hackberry psyllids, often mistaken for gnats, come in with them. Fall is the second bait window for fire ants. Winters here are mild, so rodents able to squeeze through a quarter-inch gap stay busy all season.
Describe it on the phone and we will tell you what it likely is and how we would treat it. Estimates are free.
7 questions answered
Looking for pest control near you in Round Rock? Call (512) 561-7451 or request a free estimate.
Not on the confirmed list so far. Texas A&M's county list for Formosan subterranean termites includes neighboring Travis County but not Williamson County. The university also warns that isolated infestations can turn up anywhere in Texas, often in recycled railroad ties used for landscaping, and that the species reaches more counties each year. Have any night-flying swarmers identified.
Use the Two-Step Method from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Step one is a bait scattered over the entire lawn while the ground is dry and the ants are foraging; step two is a direct treatment for just those mounds sitting where people walk or play. Results last longer when neighbors treat together, because the ants take longer to move back in.
They can. The Texas health department considers West Nile virus endemic in every county, and its 2020 report lists 17 positive mosquito pools and three human cases in Williamson County. Most infected people never feel sick. Drain standing water weekly, cover up around dusk and dawn, and use an EPA-registered repellent.
Yes. Round Rock estimates cost nothing; plans are then priced from $57 with eco-friendly products. Explain what you are seeing at the house or building in the online request, or ring (512) 561-7451, and the right plan can be matched to the pests involved.
Yes, the real estate side of Precision Pest Control covers termite checks before a sale. Native subterranean termites are the ones to expect here, and a colony can hold around 250,000 workers once it matures. Buyers, sellers and agents can request an inspection online or by phone.
Yes. Commercial properties are covered along with homes, and they get the same no-charge estimate and eco-friendly products. Tawny crazy ants are confirmed in Williamson County and can infest a property by the million, so businesses with landscaping or utility equipment outdoors benefit from early attention.
West of I-35 the ground turns rocky, and striped bark scorpions spend the day under stones, bark, boards and landscape timbers. Filling weep holes with copper mesh and replacing worn weather stripping helps keep them out. Precision Pest Control offers scorpion control for Round Rock homes.
Interstate 35 follows the edge of the Balcones fault line through Round Rock. East of it lies flat Blackland Prairie with black, clay-rich soil; west of it, hilly karst with little topsoil. Local pests sort themselves along the same line.
Round Rock took shape in 1851 on the banks of Brushy Creek, beside the anvil-shaped rock that marked a low-water crossing later used by Chisholm Trail cattle drives. The city lies mostly in Williamson County, with part in Travis County, about 17 miles north of downtown Austin at an elevation near 735 feet. The census counted 12,740 residents in 1980 and 119,468 in 2020, growth that followed the interstate and the arrival of Dell's headquarters in the 1990s.
Much of the housing is therefore recent, set in planned subdivisions and utility districts such as Brushy Creek, Teravista and Paloma Lake, while Old Town keeps buildings from the cattle-trail years. Lawns on former cotton ground and rocky lots on the west side do not share the same pests. Precision Pest Control takes on residential, commercial and real estate work in Round Rock, and every estimate is free.
Local field notes
What our technicians check first on a Round Rock property
Unique to Round Rock
Local conditions decide where pests live and how they get in. These are the Round Rock details that shape every plan we write here.
Round Rock has grown almost tenfold since 1980, so most houses here went up within the last few decades. Extension termite guidance is easy to check on any of them: leave a gap of six to eight inches between the soil or mulch and the top edge of the foundation, rest wood steps and porch posts on concrete, and keep dense shrubs from crowding the walls.
West of the interstate, stone veneer and rocky lots change the list. Fill weep holes with copper mesh, replace weather stripping wherever daylight shows around a door, and keep firewood and lumber stacks off the house. Around shops and offices, lighting matters as well: buildings lit brightly at night attract the most crickets.
Whichever side of the interstate you live on, Precision Pest Control gives free estimates on Round Rock jobs when you ask online, answers at (512) 561-7451, and prices plans from $57.
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