Pest Inspection
"Pest inspection" covers two quite different jobs. Knowing which one you need saves a call, and sometimes a second inspection.
Two different inspections
A general pest inspection looks for the pests that make a building unpleasant to live in: ants, roaches, rodents, wasps. It is diagnostic, it usually leads to a treatment plan, and no lender asks for it.
A wood-destroying pest inspection looks for the organisms that make a building structurally unsound: termites, powder-post beetles, oldhouse borers, and in most states wood-decay fungi. It produces a written report on a form the state prescribes, and it is the one that appears in property transactions.
The licensing differs too. In California, wood-destroying-pest work sits in a separate licence branch from general pest control, and a company can hold one without the other. Texas records a termite category against a business licence independently of its general pest category.
Why this site only lists the second kind
Because that is where the licence record actually means something. Structural pest work is separately licensed, separately categorised, and publicly registered, so we can show you a number you can check. Every business here holds a current licence with a termite and WDO category.
Many of them do general pest work as well, and some are licensed for fumigation, which matters if the problem turns out to be drywood termites and the structure needs tenting. Each listing states what its licence covers.
Which do you need?
If you have found frass, mud tubes, discarded wings, or hollow-sounding wood, you want the wood-destroying-pest inspection. If a lender, buyer or escrow has asked for a report, you certainly do, and it will need to be on your state's prescribed form. See what a WDO inspection covers.