I have lived in the house since 1993 and we always see a few every year.

We have always had them. I've been stung many times. My kids and wife also.
Luckily the variety in North Texas are not potent at all. Their sting is very painful but usually subsides in a matter of minutes.

We have them pretty bad here as well. Demand CS is the best defense I have found.

Hey Mark, I raised two girls in the same house for the last 17 years and have fought them quite a bit. They hurt like he11.
Look up Demon. It’s a powder I get from feed stores. You mix it in a sprayer and spray like the Orkin man. The only time I have seen scorpions is when I let 6 months lapse without spraying.

Also invest in a black light. They will glow so bright when you shine it you can see them 50ft away. It’s crazy.

I kill 1 or 2 a week around house

I have a home in ABQ and one at Rayburn, we get scorpions at both, They seem to be more prevalent at the lake house, but they have shown up this year in ABQ big time. I have actually found some in the woods at the lake on accident, they just show up in my house in ABQ at night running around. I think they are more of a pain in ABQ.

I have them around my house. I use the seasonal Spectracide and replaced all wood mulch with rubber mulch. I di to use Cyper WP. I rarely see one.
about 5 years ago, I found a dens of those boogers in a hole an armadillo had dug up against the house and wood mulch was covering it. You have to take their
food source away as scorpions are non cleaning bugs, meaning they do not clean or groom themselves. So unless you spray directly on them it's hard to kill them.

Use a black lite to find them. They light up lime green..

We had more than a dozen our first year in our newly built house in San Antonio. Put steel wool in the weep holes around the foundation. That knocked down the number we were getting in the house by a lot. Also added some of those small wedge insulation pieces on the bottoms of the door frames.

My cat has met a couple of them in my screened in porch He did not like the results and has finally learned to respect their business end.

if you have brick you can plug the weep holes with pcs of a nylon scrub pad, won't deteriorate like steel wool.

demon is da bomb (literally) around the perimeter, mix n spray and spread a little powder as well, stuff will last a good while.

Thanks for all the tips.

Everybody out here complains about them and we all have differents to ways take care of them. The key to control is to stick to a regular schedule.

We had them bad, always on the ceiling or walls, come to find out they were falling from the trees and making their way in from the roof and attic, trimmed the trees back and now we only have one or two in the house every year

I have seen a couple in the yard. Spray Demon WSP around the foundation once a month and have never had one in the house.