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How To Handle Small Ants

Tiny ants make a surge in spring and early summer. These are very small ants often found around kitchen counters and sinks. The tricky part is seeing them! Often they make trails and you don’t notice they are there until they are well established. Luckily, they are not too difficult to handle. You can buy consumer brand products, our customers say they’ve used Terro Liquid Ant Bait with some success. Always read the label instructions!…

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Termites In The Yard

Termites are in the soil. But is having termites in a lawn a cause for concern? Not necessarily. Termites have a purpose. They help recycle dead plant matter and wood and return the nutrients to the environment. So do you need to exterminate all termites from your lawn? Of course not! The only issue is if termites are very near your home or active on your home or nearby structures. It is nearing termite swarming…

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Fire Ants in the Spring

It’s that time of year when fire ant mounds show up. It’s also a great time to treat them! In the spring the colonies are not as big as get later, so applying bait now means you can deliver a knockout hit before it gets tougher to fight them off. Look around now in your yard for mounds popping up, especially after rain. Check gardens by moving some dirt around to see if they come…

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Looking for Pests In the Spring

When the weather starts to warm up like it is this week around Austin, it is a great time to inspect for pest issues. But before looking for actual pests, look around your home and outside for potential pest nesting spots. This could be anything from a stack of cardboard boxes in the garage to piles of rock or stone near the house. Clearing out brush, debris, piles of leaves any potential hiding spots can…

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Treating Carpenter Ants

Carpenter ants, and really all types of ants, get very active in the spring and summer. Unlike fire ants, however, you don’t see “mounds” of carpenter ants on the ground. Carpenter ants are typically found in wood areas, either natural or man-made. That could be in live or dead trees, inside tree stumps, tree branches, around wood paneling, wood siding, eaves etc. The best way to treat them is to locate the main nest. They…

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Wasps

With (maybe) the last freeze of the season past us, you may start seeing wasps or hornets around. If near a home, they most commonly nest under eaves or porch overhangs. However, unless they are right above a doorway or other inconvenient area, you may be able to let them be. First, wasps/hornets are predators and can help take care of spiders, flies and other pests near your home. Second, even though they stay active…

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Cold Weather and Fire Ants

Even with cold weather fire ants can stay around. Normally, the mounds become dormant in cold months. But they don’t really hibernate, and they definitely are not gone! That is, unless you took our advice and treated them in the fall. As the weather gets colder, fire ants go further down into the to stay warm and survive over the winter. Then, when the weather warms in the spring and summer, as the saying goes,…

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How To Prevent German Roaches

German roaches are considered the “worst type” of roach to have. This is because they multiply quickly and are very good at hiding among cracks and crevices. That combination means you could “suddenly” have dozens of them before you even realize it. Good, low-toxicity pest control is possible, but is there a way to keep them out of your house in the first place? Yes, with some exceptions. German roaches don’t enter a home unless…

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Large Animals in Your Attic

If you are hearing loud noises overhead that sound like loud steps or just heavy movement and louder than a small rat would make, you’re probably looking at a larger critter like a raccoon in your attic. Raccoons are notorious for being quite aggressive if they want to get into something. This could be your trash can, or worse! We’ve had customer reports about raccoons actually ripping open holes in houses in order to get…

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Creating A Pest Free Home

New houses typically have fewer pest issues thanks to fewer “cracks and crevices” that often appear around older homes, but sometimes that newness can lead to homeowners becoming a little too comfortable and missing opportunities to set up pest prevention techniques. In fact, moving in to a new house is the perfect time to take a few extra steps and ensure it remains as pest free as possible for as long as possible. No home…

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We specialize in long-lasting treatments using products in a way that effectively kills bugs but has no impact on people. No contracts are needed. We treat more than once a year about as often as we skip years between treatments.

Aztec’s philosophy is to provide the most effective pest control service available, having the least negative impact on people and the environment here in Austin, Texas. We use a combination of the least toxic and most effective pest control products available.

We originally offered pest control using only natural, “organic” pest control products. While we still offer that service, we now combine those products with a low-toxicity, odorless, synthetic pyrethrin (crushed chrysanthemum flower), offering a longer-lasting residual effect.

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This is the second time my family has used Aztec Organic Pest Service for our home.  We have small children, so we wanted to make sure the treatment was not only effective, but also safe.  Every aspect of working with Aztec was great.  Scheduling was quick and easy, and the…

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After researching pest control on Yelp last year, I called Aztec and they were willing to work with me and very understanding (without even the slightest hint of eye-rolling I received from another company) about areas I did not want sprayed – I need the spiders and ladybugs around my…

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