Pest and Stinging Insect Control in Wimberley, TX
Pest Trappers serves homes and businesses in Wimberley, the Hays County town on Cypress Creek and the Blanco River, for stinging insects, everyday household pests, termites, rodents and nuisance wildlife. A technician looks first and quotes second, so the price reflects what is actually on your property. Text or phone (210) 281-1064, or reserve a time online.
Who serves Wimberley, and how to book #
Pest Trappers is run by a family, and its owner, Travis Lambert, is a Texas commercial certified applicator. Wimberley is one of 15 Hill Country and San Antonio-area towns on the company's route. Requests come in through the website, by phone or by text; the office then gets back to you to lock in the visit time. Se habla español.
What's different about pests in Wimberley? #
A small city inside a big ZIP code. The Census Bureau estimated Wimberley's population at 2,889 in July 2024, on just under 9 square miles of land. The 78676 ZIP is much larger: the city is only 5.3% of its land, Woodcreek shares the code, and census survey estimates put about 15,800 people in it. A Wimberley address can mean a house near the Square or a tract of county land, and the pest work changes with it. Ground nests, brush piles and outbuildings matter more on bigger properties.
A creek and spring town. Cypress Creek feeds Blue Hole Regional Park, the city's spring-fed, cypress-lined swimming hole, and the city keeps a 7.24-acre nature trail and preserve along the creek just east of Wimberley Square. The Blanco River runs through town as well. Damp soil near water gives mud daubers building material, and in dry spells, backyard pools and birdbaths draw thirsty honey bees.
Limestone and woodland. Texas Parks and Wildlife describes the Edwards Plateau around Wimberley as juniper and oak woodland on limestone riddled with caves. Wooded lots mean tree-hung wasp nests, and rocky ground fits the tarantulas that tarantula hawks hunt.
Homes of every age. Census survey data for 2020 to 2024 shows that 32.0% of Wimberley's homes went up between 2010 and 2019, 23.3% in the 1980s, and 20.4% before 1980; 81.4% are single-family detached houses (Census ACS). New eaves suit paper wasps, while weathered wood on older homes draws carpenter bees and lets honey bees into walls.
More rabid foxes in Hays County. State health department figures show Hays County had 6 rabies-positive animals in 2024, one of them a fox (DSHS 2024), and 19 in 2025, including 13 foxes, 5 bats and a raccoon (DSHS 2025). More on what that means below.
Stinging insects we handle in Wimberley #
If you can't name the insect yet, these pages help you sort it out: wasps, bees, hornets or solitary stingers.
Bees
- Honey bees, whether a resting swarm or a colony built into a wall or chimney
- Africanized honey bees, the quick-to-defend colonies in meter boxes, junk and crawl spaces
- Bumble bees, fuzzy bees nesting in brush, sheds and abandoned burrows
- Carpenter bees, the wood-boring loners behind those half-inch holes
Social wasps and hornets
- Paper wasps and red wasps, builders of the uncovered combs found on porches, gates and utility boxes
- Yellowjackets, which hide paper nests underground or inside walls
- Baldfaced hornets, makers of the pear-shaped carton hanging from a limb
- Mexican honey wasps, the mild, honey-storing wasps of the treetops
Solitary wasps and other stingers
- Mud daubers, the spider hunters with mud tubes
- Cicada killers, the summer lawn diggers
- Tarantula hawks, orange-winged and seen on flowers
- Velvet ants, wingless wasps on bare ground
Two hornets with no Texas record
- The European hornet, which no source we use places in the state
- The giant "murder" hornet, and the local insects it gets confused with
Other pests we treat #
- Indoor and outdoor general pest work, from fire ants, carpenter ants and roaches to spiders, scorpions, centipedes, silverfish, crickets, fleas, ticks and mosquitoes
- Termites: inspection and treatment
- Rodents
- Bed bugs
- Nuisance wildlife: raccoons, opossums and skunks, removal and exclusion
Pest Trappers does not offer lawn, tree or shrub care, and doesn't do fumigation.
Wildlife and rabies in Wimberley #
Wimberley's city website lists animal services under Hays County services, so the county, not the city, handles animal control (City of Wimberley). With fox cases up sharply in the county, a fox, skunk, raccoon or bat that acts sick, stumbles or shows no fear of people should be left strictly alone, and anyone bitten or scratched should see a doctor. Texas' rabies quarantine makes it illegal for residents to move a live raccoon, skunk, fox or coyote, so don't trap and haul one yourself. For raccoons, opossums and skunks living in an attic, chimney or under the house, Pest Trappers can remove them and seal the openings, following Texas Parks and Wildlife and state health department rules. Read more on our wildlife page.
How service works #
- Request a visit online, by phone or by text, and describe what you're seeing and where.
- Confirm. The office sets the appointment time with you.
- Inspect. A technician drives out from our base at 7319 Brandyridge, San Antonio, TX 78250, names the pest and tracks down its source.
- Decide. You hear the options; whatever is applied goes on exactly as the label requires.
- Quote. Pricing follows the inspection rather than coming before it.
All work is done under Pest Trappers LLC (TPCL #0887549), a Texas Department of Agriculture structural pest control business license in the general pest and termite categories.
Other towns close to Wimberley #
Wimberley neighbors on our list include New Braunfels, Bulverde and Boerne, and the service area runs on to San Antonio.