Eco-Friendly Pest Control across the state

Eco-friendly pest control means treatments that lean on fewer conventional pesticides, and every company below offers eco-friendly or pet-safe options. Companies describe these treatments as organic, green, natural or pet safe, and those words are the companies' own. Every pesticide used in Texas is registered with both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), and EPA registration is not a finding that a product is safe.

Ask 3 questions before a treatment: which products the company uses, where the products go and why. The applicator makes the state's consumer information sheet available for an indoor treatment of a private home that is not a rental, and an information sheet comes with outdoor treatments at a private home too. Texas A&M guidance uses steps other than spraying for 3 pests: sealing cracks and weep holes against scorpions, rat-proofing against rodents, and emptying standing water against mosquitoes. A company offering integrated pest management (IPM) names which of these steps it uses.