Every directory says it verifies. Most mean someone filled out a form. Here is exactly what we check, what we do not, how current the data is, and where our coverage is thin — so you can judge the claim rather than take it.
It means one thing: we matched the company to a current pest control business license on the record its state publishes, and we print what we matched. We list pest control companies in Texas and Florida, and each is matched against its own state agency’s record: the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) or the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS). A verified listing shows the license number, its status and the date we last checked it, with a link to the agency’s own record so you can check it yourself. If we cannot match a company to a current license, the badge is not shown.
In Texas, the license we match on is the Structural Pest Control business license, issued by TDA’s Structural Pest Control Service. Under Texas Occupations Code §1951.301, a person may not engage in the business of structural pest control without one, the license covers the business and its employees working under the direct supervision of a certified commercial applicator, and the license holder must employ a certified commercial applicator at all times. An applicator or technician license belongs to an individual, and does not make a company a licensed business; the business license record is what does.
In Florida, the license we match on is the pest control business license FDACS issues. Under Florida Statutes section 482.071, it is unlawful to operate a pest control business that FDACS has not licensed, each business location must hold its own license, and FDACS may not issue or renew one unless the company’s pest control work is under a certified operator in charge who is certified in the categories of the license. A certified operator’s certificate belongs to an individual; the business license record is what we match.
We do not inspect work, interview customers, or verify insurance. We do not read pesticide use records or complaint files. We do not screen for criminal history. A badge on this site means the license is real and current. It does not mean the job will go well, so ask any company for proof of insurance and references before work starts.
Every listing prints the date we last checked it. Neither state’s published record is a clean list of current licenses, so we read the dates on each record rather than trusting a file’s name or a status word. A license whose expiration date has passed is never shown as current: we do not add it, and a listing we already hold loses its badge and is marked expired.
Texas. The roster is TDA’s own published file of current business licenses. That file keeps a company on it for a time after its license date has passed, which is why we go by the date.
Florida. The roster is FDACS’s public Pest Control Business Licenses report. It is a live view of FDACS’s licensing records and prints no date of its own, so the date we show is the day we read it. The report sometimes still calls a license Active after its expiration date has passed; we go by the date, and that license is not listed until a later read shows it renewed.
Texas license data on this site comes from the Texas Department of Agriculture, Structural Pest Control Service (texasagriculture.gov), copied on the date shown. Neither this site nor the information as presented here is endorsed by the State of Texas or the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Florida license data on this site comes from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services public Pest Control Business Licenses report (aeslicensing.fdacs.gov), copied on the date shown. Neither this site nor the information as presented here is endorsed by the State of Florida or the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
We publish a company’s contact details only when we have a basis for them, and a county with too few verified companies is marked rather than padded. What that means differs by state, because the two records carry different things.
Texas. TDA’s published file carries a company’s legal name, trade name, county and license dates — and no phone number, email or street address. So a phone number on a Texas listing is one we confirmed on the company’s own website, and a licensed Texas company we hold no confirmed number for is not listed yet. That is the main reason a licensed Texas company may be missing here.
Florida. FDACS’s report carries each licensed business’s phone number, email address, street address, county, license categories and license dates. The phone number on a Florida listing is the one the report prints, and the listing shows the city from the report. We never publish the email address; we keep it only to route quote requests.
Florida. A Florida pest control business license names the categories of pest control the business is licensed for — general household pest and rodent control, termites and other wood-destroying organisms, lawn and ornamental, and fumigation — and a Florida listing shows the matching services: general pest control, termite treatment, lawn and ornamental pest control, and structural fumigation. A category whose meaning on a business license we could not confirm in Florida law is not shown as a service.
Texas. TDA’s file records a license’s categories as letter codes, and TDA publishes no key to them, so a Texas listing shows no services taken from the license. What a Texas company does is what it tells us when it claims its record, and it is labeled as provider-declared.
Where a company works is a claim, not a fact we can read off a license. We never turn an address into a service area. Where we show a company on a county page, that placement comes from the county of record on its state’s own file, and nothing more is implied by it.
Texas. A business license is issued per place of business (§1951.301(d)), so the county on TDA’s record is where that office is filed — not where its trucks will travel.
Florida. Each business location must hold its own license (section 482.071(3)), so a company with several offices is listed separately for each licensed location, and the county on each is the county FDACS files that license in — not where its trucks will travel.
In Texas, there is no state permit for treating a house for pests or termites, and no county one either: the Structural Pest Control Act regulates the licensed company’s paperwork at the job, not a permit, and it does not apply at all to work you do on the home you own or lease as your dwelling (§1951.052). The one real permit is municipal and only for structural fumigation — tenting — which some cities regulate under their fire code (§1951.005(b)(3)). So this site has no permit guides for Texas. What it will have instead is a guide per document the state requires the company to hand you: the consumer information sheet before an indoor treatment (§1951.453), the termite estimate, the post-treatment sticker, the official wood-destroying-insect report. None of those guides is published yet; each will be written from the statute and TDA’s rules, and dated.
That reasoning is Texas law. We have not yet written up what Florida’s pest control law requires, so this page makes no claim about permits or required paperwork in Florida, and no Florida guide is published yet.
If a listing is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. A company can claim its own record and correct it directly — see For pest control companies. Correcting a record never changes where it ranks.
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