Do Scorpions Come Inside Fort Worth Homes When Temperatures Drop?

Scorpions can enter Fort Worth homes when temperatures change, but cooler weather isn’t the only motivator that brings them indoors.

Scorpions do seek protected spaces, and sometimes those places do happen to be inside your garage, laundry room, bathroom, or other accessible sheltered area. It can be an unpleasant surprise to find a scorpion indoors, particularly if you encounter one while walking barefoot (you, not the scorpion).

Understanding their behavior can help you make your home less accessible to these eight-legged undesirables.

What Types of Scorpions Are Found Around Fort Worth?

The striped bark scorpion is the most common scorpion species in Texas. Generally yellowish tan in color with darker stripes running along their backs, these scorpions measure about 2.5 inches long, including the tail. If you’ve encountered scorpions around your home in the Fort Worth area, this is a likely candidate.

Did you know that scorpions are arachnids, relatives of spiders, ticks, and mites instead of insects? They’re primarily a nocturnal pests that shelter beneath rocks, woodpiles, yard debris, and in other protected spaces during daylight hours.

Although scorpions can deliver quite a painful sting, by and large Texas scorpion species are not considered life-threatening to healthy adults. That said, some individuals might experience more serious sting reactions. Scorpion stings can be significantly more dangerous to children and pets.

Why Would a Scorpion Enter Your Home?

Like many other Fort Worth pests, scorpions might move indoors searching for moisture, prey, or suitable shelter. Seasonal temperature shifts often influence their movements, but they don’t necessarily enter homes to escape winter weather. In fact, scorpions might be found indoors at different times of the year.

And honestly, they don’t require much of an invitation to get inside your home. Scorpions can squeeze through small cracks and gaps to gain entry. Garages and storage sheds can be particularly attractive to scorpions, where they might be found beneath boxes, firewood, or other stored items.

And because they’re more active at night, it’s fairly common to find them unexpectedly after turning on a light inside a dark room.

How Can You Help Keep Scorpions Out of Your House?

Because scorpions can be difficult to detect until one makes a very unexpected appearance inside your home, prevention measures and attention to potentially vulnerable areas are especially important.

Inspecting the exterior of your home is a great place to start. Seal up potentially accessible cracks around the foundation, replace damaged door sweeps and weather stripping, and check for openings around plumbing and utility lines.

Remove wood, large stones, and any other unnecessary debris near your home’s exterior. Store firewood away from your home’s structure and use a rack that keeps the wood from touching the ground if possible. Avoid leaving shoes, clothing, or cleaning rags on the floor in areas where scorpions have been (or might be) found.

Reducing other types of pest activity can also help limit scorpions, because they feed on insects and other small arthropods.

If you do happen to find a scorpion indoors, don’t attempt to remove it with your bare hands.

Mosquito Squad Plus is pleased to offer Fort Worth scorpion control among our expanded pest control services. Our professional scorpion control includes identifying areas where scorpions might shelter and enter your home and recommending tailored treatment and prevention measures.

Where Do We Offer Outdoor Pest Control?

Mosquito Squad Plus is so much more than a mosquito control company. We’re pleased to offer expanded outdoor pest control in Fort Worth and throughout these areas, including:

• Aledo Scorpion Control
• Annetta Scorpion Control
• Arlington Scorpion Control
• Bedford Scorpion Control
• Benbrook Scorpion Control
• Burleson Scorpion Control
• Colleyville Scorpion Control
• Cresson Scorpion Control
• Crowley Scorpion Control
• Dennis Scorpion Control
• Euless Scorpion Control
• Fort Worth Scorpion Control
• Granbury Scorpion Control
• Grapevine Scorpion Control
• Haltom City Scorpion Control
• Hudson Oaks Scorpion Control
• Hurst Scorpion Control
• Keller Scorpion Control
• Kennedale Scorpion Control
• Mansfield Scorpion Control
• Millsap Scorpion Control
• Mineral Wells Scorpion Control
• North Richland Hills Scorpion Control
• Paluxy Scorpion Control
• Paradise Scorpion Control
• Peaster Scorpion Control
• Poolville Scorpion Control
• Ridglea Scorpion Control
• Roanoke Scorpion Control
• Santo Scorpion Control
• Southlake Scorpion Control
• Springtown Scorpion Control
• Tolar Scorpion Control
• Trophy Club Scorpion Control
• Watauga Scorpion Control
• Weatherford Scorpion Control
• Westlake Scorpion Control
• Westover Hills Scorpion Control
• Whitt Scorpion Control
• and many more!

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