Is BugBros Pest Control legit?

Licenses

Company pesticide licenses in each state where it has a location, with the status the issuing agency showed on the date retrieved.

• Kansas

  Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA), Pesticide and Fertilizer Program: Pesticide Business License⁴¹

  Status: Licensed, category 7 (KDA shows no status column; a category with a future expiry means licensed for the year) · Number PBL 100110 · Expires 12/31/2026

• Kansas

  Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA), Pesticide and Fertilizer Program: Pesticide Business License⁴¹

  Status: Licensed, categories 3 and 7 (KDA shows no status column; a category with a future expiry means licensed for the year) · Number PBL 100904 · Expires 12/31/2026

• Missouri

  Missouri licenses individual pesticide applicators, not companies, so there is no company license to look up.

• Oklahoma

  Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ODAFF), Pesticide Licensing (AGLook): Pesticide License^{5, 7, 37}

  Status: Current (expiration date in the future; AGLook shows no status word) · Number 8876 · Expires September 30, 2027

• Oklahoma

  Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ODAFF), Pesticide Licensing (AGLook): Pesticide License^{37, 38, 39}

  Status: Expired (expiration date September 30, 2024 has passed; AGLook shows no status word and still lists category 7A as “Active Unexpired”) · Number 9563 · Expires September 30, 2024

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profiles show 0 complaints in the last three years across its BBB files; grades vary by branch.

  Not BBB accredited.^{5, 28, 31, 34}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

Ratings and counts as each site showed them on the date retrieved.

• Google

  3,116 reviews across 7 western US listings, averaging 5.0 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19}

• Other

  4.92 out of 5 from 370 reviews (Experience.com “verified reviews”).^{26, 27}

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

• Angi

  4.8 out of 5 from 79 reviews (Tulsa, Oklahoma).²³

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

• HomeAdvisor

  4.8 out of 5 from 79 reviews (Tulsa, Oklahoma).²⁴

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

Review excerpts and the themes customers raise are on the company’s review page.

Legal and regulatory record

Only resolved government actions count toward the score. Pending lawsuits, private suits and allegations are listed as such; they are allegations, not findings.

• Oklahoma state courts party search (OSCN, all 79 court listings: the counties and the appellate court) for “BugBros”: no records in any listing, including Tulsa County. The spaced variant “Bug Bros” was also searched.^{46, 47}

  October 28, 2026 · Oklahoma · Lawsuit · Not scored

• The Journal Record profile says the founders’ earlier, unrelated businesses (a house-flipping business that failed after the September 2008 financial crisis and drove the brothers into bankruptcy, and the Progenex sports-nutrition brand, including a suit the brothers brought against its then-CEO and a separate dispute among investors and management that ended in a confidential settlement) involved lawsuits and bankruptcy. These are private matters of other companies; none concerns BugBros Pest Control. Recorded for transparency; not scored.²

  October 6, 2026 · US (private) · Lawsuit · Not scored

• Federal trademark suit Bugbros Pest Control, LLC v. Bug Brothers LLC (N.D. Okla. 4:20-cv-00164, nature of suit 840 Trademark): BugBros is the first-named party in the caption (plaintiff by caption convention; the outcome is not shown on the search page); terminated August 11, 2020. Not a matter against BugBros and not a government action.⁴⁸

  April 22, 2020 · US (N.D. Okla.) · Lawsuit · Not scored

Three other records (complaint summaries and permits) are on its review page.

Does it sell door to door?

• N/A: the research didn’t establish door-to-door selling. It isn’t proof that the company never knocks.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #33 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 8.3 out of 10, High confidence.

  Strongest: licensing and compliance (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (9.0/10).

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