Active spring through fall in Georgetown, worse after rain drives them from the yard toward the slab edge and indoors
House centipedes in Georgetown are long-legged, fast-moving hunters, not a sign of infestation. One indoors usually followed prey or moisture through a slab gap. Treating the smaller insects they eat around the foundation and sealing entry points is what actually reduces sightings.
Scorpions climbing bathroom walls near Sun City and Cimarron Hills limestone lots
A single fast-moving animal on a bathroom or garage floor, gone before you can get a good look, is the most common sign in a Georgetown home. It means the room has enough humidity and small prey to support one hunter passing through, and it is worth checking that room for a damp spot, a leaking fixture, or a gap under the door before assuming it is a one-off.
Finding one stuck in a dry tub or sink in the morning means it climbed the drain overnight looking for water and could not get traction to climb back out. It is not a sign of a bigger problem by itself, but a repeat of this in the same bathroom points to a drain or slab gap nearby worth a look.
Several sightings in the same week, in different rooms, means the prey and moisture supporting them is more than a single damp corner. In an older Old Town house or one backing onto a greenbelt near San Gabriel Park, that pattern is worth an inspection to find where insects and dampness are both getting in.
Seeing them concentrated around a slab edge or foundation gap outside, particularly after a dry stretch has pulled the clay back from the house, means that gap is an active entry point. It is the same opening scorpions and ants use, and closing it does more than any single treatment indoors.
A single centipede loose on a bathroom or kitchen floor, usually at night, tells you the house has a damp spot somewhere and a way in for something that eats other bugs. It is not a nest indicator and does not mean an infestation is underway. Check under sinks and around the water heater for moisture, and seal the gap it likely used near a door threshold or a slab expansion joint.
Georgetown's house centipedes are hunters, not invaders in numbers. One in a house means it followed prey or moisture in, usually through a slab gap widened by drought. It is not the start of an infestation, and a single sighting rarely calls for treatment on its own.
The Balcones Escarpment split matters here. On the Edwards Plateau side of I-35 the ground is thin and rocky with more surface cracks; on the Blackland Prairie side the clay itself opens up when it dries. Either way, a centipede is following a gap, not a food source, into the house.
Roof rats outnumber Norway rats in Georgetown, and they get in high rather than low. A limb touching the fascia near Berry Creek or a gap at a soffit line in Teravista does more damage than any crack at ground level, because these rats bridge in from power lines and tree cover and settle into attics and gable vents. Norway rats show up too, but mostly near drainage low down. Checking the roofline first saves a homeowner from chasing the wrong entry point for weeks.
House millipedes. A millipede has two pairs of short legs per body segment and moves in a slow ripple, while a centipede has one pair of long legs per segment and moves in a fast dash. A millipede also curls into a tight coil when disturbed; a centipede runs instead.
The licensed pros we connect you with treat centipedes as a symptom of a bigger insect population outdoors, since centipedes eat other bugs. A perimeter treatment aimed at spiders, crickets and ants usually clears the centipedes with it, rather than targeting the centipede directly.
Sealing is part of the inspection, not an afterthought. A technician checks door thresholds, weep holes, and any gap around plumbing penetrations, and seals what is found so the next dry spell does not open the same route back into the house again.
Drive past a gas station on Williams Drive on a September night and the crickets under the lights tell you the season's turned. It happens on a schedule loose enough to call reliable and tight enough to plan around, and it has nothing to do with anything inside your walls. Cutting the porch light for a few weeks does more good than a can of spray ever will.
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Run a dehumidifier in a damp bathroom or laundry room, fix any dripping fixture, and clear leaf litter and stacked wood away from the foundation. Centipedes follow moisture and prey, so drying out the spots they like removes the reason they came in without needing a chemical treatment.
A house centipede can bite if handled, and it feels like a bee sting, but it is not a public health concern in Georgetown and does not spread disease. Most people never get close enough to be bitten; the bigger nuisance is the startle of seeing one move fast across a floor.
A scorpion under the door or a fire ant mound that showed up overnight after rain is not something to sit on in Georgetown. The licensed pros we connect you with know that the west side of I-35, from Sun City down through Cimarron Hills and Water Oak, is limestone ground where these things move differently than they do east of the highway. Call and describe what you're seeing — a phone call costs nothing and gets you talking to someone who can actually place the problem.Scorpion visits usually come with an entry point already at fault — a slab crack, a loose weep screen, a gap around a laundry line. Fixing that spot is often folded into the same visit rather than billed as extra, since it's a few minutes of caulk and screen versus a repeat call in July. Roof rat exclusion works the same way: the estimate covers sealing the fascia gap or gable vent that let them into the attic in the first place, not just clearing what's already up there. pricing guide, and the service that handles this is General Pest Control.
Pest Identification. Striped bark scorpions are common in Georgetown from April through October, peaking June through August.
Ant Identification. Odorous house ants are small, dark brown to black ants that leave a rotten-coconut smell when crushed, common in Georgetown homes when summer drought pulls the clay away from the slab edge.
Pest Identification. German cockroaches are the small tan roach with two dark racing stripes on the back that lives inside Georgetown homes year-round, concentrated in kitchens and bathrooms.
Georgetown's house centipede is flat, gray to yellowish-brown with dark stripes, and carries what looks like a dozen long legs trailing off its sides, each one longer than the last toward the back. It moves fast, in short bursts, and tends to freeze when a light comes on in a bathroom or garage. It is not the same animal as a millipede, which is slow, rounded, and has far more legs packed close together. If something in a Berry Creek or Teravista bathroom sprints for the drain when the light flips on, that is the centipede, not a millipede.
Yes, year-round, though they turn up indoors most in the cooler months when they follow the moisture and prey they hunt into the house. In Georgetown that means late fall through early spring is when a homeowner in Teravista or Berry Creek is most likely to find one on a bathroom floor or in a tub, but a wet stretch in any season can bring them in from outside.
No. The house centipede does not bite people as a matter of course, and it is not chasing you when it runs at speed across a floor in Old Town or Sun City. It bites only if it is picked up or trapped against skin, and even then it is a minor, localized reaction, nothing that needs more than what you'd do for any small insect bite.
It means there is prey inside for it to eat. Centipedes do not feed on your home the way termites or carpenter ants do; they show up because a house has enough small insects, spiders, or moisture for them to hunt. Finding several in a Georgetown home, especially near a slab gap opened up by summer drought, points to an entry-point and moisture issue worth an inspection, not a centipede problem on its own.
Whichever side of Georgetown a house sits on, the licensed pros we connect you with start the inspection at the point that soil actually pushes pests toward the door.
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