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North Texas Pest Library

Identify what you are dealing with, learn whether it actually matters, and find out what it costs to treat.

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Twelve Pests We Treat in Tarrant and Parker County

Each page covers what it looks like, whether it is actually dangerous, why it is in your yard, and how it gets treated. Written by the people who do the treatments, not copied off a national template.

Mosquito at rest on a green leaf, long legs and needle-like proboscis

Mosquitoes

Red imported fire ant worker in close-up, uniform copper-red body

Fire Ants

An adult red mite on rock — adults of this kind do not bite; the biting chigger larvae are microscopic

Chiggers

Fleas

Female lone star tick on a grass blade, single white dot on the back

Ticks

Adult chinch bug on a grass head, white wings marked with a dark X

Chinch Bugs

Armyworm caterpillar, striped body and dark head capsule

Armyworms

White C-shaped beetle larva in soil, brown head capsule and legs near the head

Grubs

Wasps

Brown recluse spider on concrete, uniform tan body and long thin legs

Spiders

Striped bark scorpion, a female carrying her brood

Scorpions

Odorous house ant on concrete, a single uniform worker size

House Ants

Pest photographs: fire ant, brown recluse, paper wasp and scorpion by Insects Unlocked and contributors (public domain / CC0); lone star tick, CDC/James Gathany (public domain); chinch bug, Christina Butler (CC BY 2.0); white grub, CSIRO (CC BY 3.0); odorous house ant, Jake N. (CC BY 4.0); cat flea, Sam Thomas (CC BY-SA 2.0). All other photography by Buffalo Outdoor.