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Cricket Control in Southlake, TX
Landscape lighting gathers autumn flights against the house, and irrigated mulch gives them somewhere damp to wait out the day. Newer construction means the openings are few enough to close properly.
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The September swarmer
Overview What is Forterra's cricket control service?
Forterra Cricket Control in Southlake treats the perimeter and bed edges ahead of the autumn flights, and screens the weep holes they use. Uplighting on trees and path lighting through beds concentrates crickets against the building through the evening.
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Forterra Southlake.
The Southlake office is where Forterra started in 2021 and it has not moved, so a property is serviced by the building that sets the standards rather than one following them at a distance. W-2 technicians, every visit logged, and the ★ 5.0 rating across 2,080 Google reviews sits on this office's own profile.
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Forterra Pest Control
935 S Kimball Ave Ste. 162
Southlake, TX 76092
(817) 665-6527 Southlake, TX 76092
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- ★ 5.0 · 2,080 reviews
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- Mon to Fri, 7:00am to 7:00pm
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- TPCL #850046
On the ground in Southlake
Landscape lighting and bed edges.
Southlake properties run a lot of landscape lighting, and in cricket season that is the main driver. Uplighting on trees and path lighting through beds gathers crickets against the house through the evening, and irrigated mulch gives them somewhere damp to sit during the day. When the ground cools they move toward the building, and garage doors and unscreened weep holes are the routes.
Because the buildings are newer, closing the openings is achievable rather than endless. We treat the perimeter and bed edges, screen weep holes where they are open, and talk about lighting, because a change of fitting or timer does more than another application would. This is covered by the quarterly plan rather than needing its own programme.
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Why the porch light matters
Manage the light, seal the gaps, treat the band.
Landscape lighting does the gathering and irrigated mulch does the sheltering. When the ground cools they move toward the building, and garage doors and unscreened weep holes are the routes.
Stage 01
01
Fix lighting
Warm-toned bulbs shrink the beacon.
Flying field crickets navigate to bright white light, which is why they drift up at lit doors. Swapping entry fixtures to warm or yellow LEDs and cutting unneeded overnight lighting removes the signal that aims the swarm at your house.
Stage 02
02
Seal doors
Door sweeps and garage seals close the landing strip.
Crickets walk in under garage doors and thresholds, the same routes as everything else. Door sweeps, garage seals and screened weep holes turn the drift at your door into a drift that stays outside.
Stage 03
03
Treat perimeter
The barrier is in place before the August flights start.
The Zero Gap perimeter treatment covers the foundation line, door zones and harborage where crickets stage, and the quarterly cadence means the fall flight meets a treated barrier. Less crickets also means less of what hunts them, scorpions and spiders.
Where crickets actually get in
On flight nights, six doors matter most.
September's field cricket flights land at your lights and walk the wall until something gives. This is the pre-flight checklist we run on the structure.
● Inspected entry point
▲ Above grade Climbers and high entries
▼ Below grade Ground-level entries
- 01
Garage door bottom
The number-one cricket entry in DFW, where the drift at the lit driveway walks straight under the worn seal.
- 02
Weep holes
Ground-level and shadowed, crickets shelter in weeps by day and end up in walls by night.
- 03
Dryer vent
A stuck flap is an open invitation two feet off the ground.
- 04
Utility penetrations
Slab gaps behind beds and shrubs collect the yard's crickets every cold snap.
- 05
HVAC penetrations
Warm mechanical voids draw the late-season stragglers.
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The cricket visit
Forterra's cricket process, step by step.
Because the buildings are newer, closing the openings is achievable rather than endless. We treat the perimeter and bed edges, screen what is open, and talk about lighting timers.
- 01
Transparent quote
Get the number before the visit. The online quote takes about a minute, the phone version a couple more. Cricket coverage prices as part of the quarterly plan, fixed in writing.
- 02
First-visit inspection
Entry gaps, lighting, harborage and the garage get reviewed; in fall the technician also checks what the crickets are feeding, since scorpion and spider pressure rides their numbers.
- 03
Treat and seal
Perimeter band and staging areas treated, door and garage gaps closed, and lighting swaps recommended where fixtures are aiming the flight at your house.
- 04
Guaranteed results
Chirping that comes back between visits is treated again for free. Under it all sits the money-back guarantee, the same one every Forterra plan carries.
Frequently asked
Questions in Southlake, answered plainly.
If you don't see yours, call (817) 665-6527 or text us, a human will answer.
The autumn flight is seasonal across Texas, and Southlake adds landscape lighting to it. Uplighting and path lighting run through the evening exactly when cooling ground pushes crickets toward buildings, so a well-lit property gathers more than a dark one.
Turn the lights off and follow the sound, checking the garage and utility spaces first. On larger Southlake homes it is often in a mudroom or garage rather than deep in the house, because that is as far as it got before dawn.
Very little. Occasional chewing on paper or fabric and a lot of noise, but no structural damage. The useful signal is that something is getting in, which on newer construction usually means one specific opening rather than general failure.
It makes a real difference here, because there is more of it. Putting landscape lighting on a timer that goes off earlier, or moving an uplight away from the wall, reduces what collects against the house before any treatment is involved.
Covered by the quarterly plan at $49 a month, initial service from $149. It does not usually need a separate program. Where a property has heavy landscape lighting we may suggest an extra perimeter visit in autumn and will quote it separately.
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