Yard Pest Control in Dallas, TX

How a Yard Visit Works, Step by Step

1. 1

   Call and describe the yard

   Tell the person who answers what you are seeing outside: mounds along the driveway, crickets by the back door at night, raised ridges across the lawn. Mention any pets and children who use the yard.

2. 2

   Walk the property

   The technician walks the front yard and the back, looking for fire ant mounds in the lawn and along the drive. Next come the mulch beds against the house and the damp spots by the faucets, the AC line and the downspouts. The outdoor lights and any raised mole runways get checked too.

3. 3

   See the plan, then the price

   You see what the walk found and what goes where. Then you hear the price. Nothing goes down until you say yes.

4. 4

   Treat the lawn and the foundation

   Fire ant bait goes across the lawn, and the mounds by the house get their own treatment. Then the technician lays the perimeter band and sets traps in the active mole runways. Keep people and pets off each treated area until it dries.

5. 5

   Leave the findings in writing

   The written findings list what was found, which product was used and where each one went. They also note what keeps drawing pests to the house, like a downspout that empties right against the slab.

To book the yard visit, call (972) 573-9907. A person answers any time, day or night.

A Perimeter Treatment Around the House

Perimeter pest control is a band of residual spray 3 to 5 feet wide along the foundation, on the soil and through the beds planted against the house. Anything crawling from the beds to a door has to cross it, and the spray keeps working after it dries.

For earwigs, the technician waters the band into the soil under the mulch.

The band is only half of outdoor insect control. The other half is the yard itself: thick wet mulch, long grass at the slab and a porch light left on all night keep drawing crickets toward the house. Spray alone does not change that, so the written findings name each of those spots.

Two pests in the yard get a method of their own:

• Fire ants. We use the Texas A&M Two-Step. Bait is broadcast across the whole lawn first, then the mounds next to the house or where people walk are treated one by one.
• Moles. The technician finds the raised runways that are still in use and sets harpoon or choker-loop traps in them.

Pests We Treat in DFW Yards

Most houses in Dallas⁠–⁠Fort Worth sit on a concrete slab, so a pest from the yard comes in at ground level: under a door, or through a gap around a pipe or a wire. Each one starts in its own part of the yard:

• Fire ants build mounds in open lawn and along the driveway, and they sting whoever steps on one. A mound against the slab can send workers inside through a crack.
• Crickets hide in the beds and the grass by day. At night they gather at the porch light, and from there they find the gap under the door.
• Earwigs live in the mulch along the foundation and in the damp ground by faucets, AC lines and downspouts.
• Millipedes and centipedes live under the mulch, leaves and stones in the beds, and turn up on the patio and the garage floor.
• Moles stay in the lawn. They tunnel just under the grass, and the raised runways they leave behind tear it up.

The four insects from the beds move toward the house most after heavy rain in spring and early fall, and again in the summer heat. Those are the weeks when perimeter pest control does most of its work.

Keeping the Yard Clear Between Visits

Outdoor pest control keeps working longer when the yard gives pests less to live on:

• Leave the fire ant mounds alone while the bait works, even if ants are still out in the first weeks.
• Turn the sprinklers off for a day or two after the visit, so the bait stays dry.
• Keep the mulch 2 to 3 inches deep and turn it now and then. Cut the grass short along the foundation.
• Check that gutters, downspouts and drains carry water away from the house, and fix a dripping outside faucet.
• Seal the gaps around doors, pipes and wires.
• In cricket season, switch the outdoor lights to yellow bug lights or turn them off early.

If crickets or earwigs are still coming in after the next heavy rain, call us.

Yard Pest Control Across Dallas⁠–⁠Fort Worth

We offer outdoor pest control services in Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Denton counties. That takes in Dallas, Fort Worth and the suburbs between them, such as Garland and Keller.

DFW Pest Guard works at homes only, from a corner lot to a townhome patio, and takes no commercial grounds.

Find your city on the service areas page, or call (972) 573-9907 to book a yard visit anywhere in those four counties.

Questions About Yard Treatment