Ant control in Georgetown, TX.

Ant control is included in our general pest plan.

Sun City or the downtown square, the ant price is identical because there is no ant price. It is folded into the recurring general pest plan with spiders, roaches, scorpions, wasps and rodents, and every visit includes it. Trails back between visits? Free re-treatment, no argument. The only number that moves is the starting rate, and that depends on your home and lot, not on what is crawling.

Starting rate for a single-family home in Georgetown. Includes ant control plus free re-treatments between visits.

Identify and bait

We identify the species before a sprayer comes off the truck, then place bait the workers actually want and let them ferry it back to the queen. The colony does the hard part for us, which feels a little unfair to them.

Treat the yard and mounds

A granular broadcast across the lawn plus a direct hit on every mound, and it reactivates every time you water. Congratulations, your sprinkler system is on our payroll now. That is what stops fire ants moving back in between visits.

Seal the perimeter

A treated band three feet up and three feet out around the foundation, plus weep holes, slab joints, irrigation boxes and utility gaps. In Sun City, the irrigation boxes are usually the culprit, so those get particular attention.

Why ants keep coming back in Georgetown.

Ant pressure in Georgetown has two very different sources. In Sun City and the other heavily irrigated neighborhoods, all that watering on rocky ground builds a permanent damp zone right against the foundation. Sprinkler boxes, valve covers and drip lines are the front doors we find propped open most often, with odorous house ants trailing in from them. In the century-old downtown homes, the problem is more often carpenter ants excavating galleries in damp original wood trim, fascia and porch framing, which is a structural issue rather than a nuisance one.

Georgetown sits on Edwards limestone where the San Gabriel River cuts straight through it, and that rock decides everything about your pest pressure. Colonies do not dig here so much as move into a place that was already built. The North and South Forks of the San Gabriel meet in town, the limestone around them is full of voids and seams, Inner Space Cavern just south of town is the obvious evidence. And those voids hold cool, humid shelter that connects to the surface through cracks running up against foundations. Neighborhoods along the river bluffs and out toward Cimarron Hills sit directly on it.

Here's why the bottle from the hardware store keeps letting you down. Spraying a trail is like firing the delivery drivers and expecting the restaurant to close. You got the fifty ants you could see. Congratulations. The queen didn't even look up. About nine in ten ants never leave the nest, so if the treatment doesn't get carried home to her, nothing actually happened. You just rearranged the furniture. Worse, some species panic and split into extra colonies when they taste something repellent, which is how one ant problem gets a promotion to five. Real ant control means naming the species first, baiting so the workers deliver the bad news themselves, then keeping a treated ring the next colony cannot cross. If you want the version with no sales pitch attached, the EPA's integrated pest management principles are a solid read.

Spring rain collapses the tunnels and the whole colony surfaces to rebuild. That is when mounds become obvious.

Seems like they are gone. They are not. Heat and drought send them down, and the mounds stop showing on the surface.

Foraging picks back up and the mounds come with it. Texas A&M rates late August to mid-October as the prime window.

How to tell it is a colony, not a one-off.

A single ant on a Georgetown counter is a scout. Ten in a line are a supply chain. The signs below separate one from the other. Call us and describe what you are seeing, including which part of town you are in. Most days that is enough for us to say over the phone whether it needs same-day attention or the next scheduled route.

How much does ant control cost in Georgetown, TX?

Ant control is included in our recurring general pest plan starting at $66 per month for a single-family home in Georgetown. That covers ants along with spiders, roaches, scorpions, wasps and rodents, so the whole ensemble cast on one ticket. Bigger house, bigger lot, the number moves. We confirm your exact price with a free on-site quote, and there is no inspection fee.

How long does it take to get rid of fire ants?

You will usually see mound activity drop within a few days of the first treatment, and most Georgetown yards are substantially clear within two to three weeks. Fire ants are a dirt problem more than a house problem, so the granular needs a watering cycle or two to wake up and get to work on the colonies sitting below the surface.

Why do the ants keep coming back after I spray them?

Because you got the delivery drivers, not the warehouse. About 90 percent of a colony never leaves the nest, including the queen, who is out-laying your spray bottle without breaking a sweat (Weizmann Institute study, eLife). Some species panic and split into several colonies when they taste something repellent, which is how one problem becomes five. We bait so the workers carry it home to her, because that is the only thing that actually ends a colony.

Is ant treatment kid and pet friendly?

Our treatments are pet and kid friendly and applied where ants travel rather than where your family does, and baits are placed in cracks, voids and stations out of reach. Keep kids and pets off treated turf until it dries, typically about 30 minutes, and your technician will walk you through everything applied before leaving.

Do you treat inside the house or just outside?

Both, and outside carries more weight. Outside is where the colony lives. Inside is just where it shops. The standard visit covers foundation, yard and property line, and if ants are already indoors we treat entry points and place bait the same day at no extra cost.

Do I need ant treatment year-round in Georgetown?

Yes. Fire ants stay active through Central Texas's mild winters, and odorous house ants move indoors specifically when weather turns, toward moisture in dry months and warmth in cold ones. Recurring service maintains the treated barrier so new colonies cannot establish against your foundation in the first place.

Do Sun City's irrigated lawns really make ant problems worse in Georgetown?

They do, and it is not the lawn's fault so much as the ground under it. Sun City sits on cleared limestone with very little soil, so the water you put down pools in valve boxes, drip lines and the bed edges against the house. That damp strip is where odorous house ants nest and where fire ants find the moisture they cannot get from the surrounding rock. We treat the irrigation hardware and the foundation edge on every visit for that reason.

Are the big black ants in my old downtown Georgetown house eating it?

Not eating, excavating, which is only slightly better news. Carpenter ants tunnel galleries in wood that has stayed damp, and a house near the square with original fascia, porch framing and window trim has a lot of candidates. Look for fine shavings collecting below a piece of trim. We find the damp wood they are working, treat the colony inside it, and tell you which boards need a carpenter once the ants are gone.