Fabric pest with the potential to cause costly damage to stored items such as clothing and linen, carpets and mats as well as paper products and photos. SILVERFISH are one fabric pest with the potential to cause costly damage to stored items such as clothing and linen, carpets and mats as well as paper products and photos. The insect can also spoil stored food products and while silverfish do not transmit or cause disease some people can be allergic to their moulted skins or

In the metropolitan area ants are more of a pest towards the end of summer and beginning of autumn when the weather becomes humid. As small as they are ants can undermine paving, short out electrics and inflict a nasty bite. There are more than 12,000 species of ants worldwide, with some species living up to 15 years. Ants will eat any foods but are especially attracted to sweet foods. The onset of spring will usually increase the metabolism of ants, other insects and spiders

The Australian cockroach is one of five common types of cockroaches found on residential properties or in homes. COCKROACHES are associated with the spread disease and may cause allergies if you have an infestation in the house. Some are associated with poor hygiene measures and indirectly cause disease through their habit of living in filth. The most common cockroaches identified, in residential properties include the American cockroach, the Australian cockroach, the wood ru

The only spider proven to be lethal in Western Australia is the female redback spider. ONCE the warmer weather appears the metabolism of spiders increases and they become visible in and around the house, garden and fence lines as they construct webs to catch and store food to supply spiderlings hatching from egg sacks. Spiders are undesirable co-habitants for different reasons and as a result a pest control professional may be engaged to rid a property of them. The main reaso

Once inside a home rodents can eat from and contaminate food packages, gnaw at electrical cables, books-papers, mattresses and couches. RODENTS not only eat food from packages in the pantry, they contaminate it with urine and faeces as well. In Australia there are three rodent species that are considered pests, the black rat (Rattus rattus), the Norwegian rat (Rattus norvegicus) and the mouse (Mus musculus). The black rat and the mouse are the most common rodents inhabiting h

Termites do not just eat away at structural timbers, doorframes and skirting boards they can also chomp their way through furniture and paper products. WHEN most homeowners are asked about their annual property maintenance regarding termite protection, most would admit to maintaining a ‘reactive’, not a ‘proactive’ approach. Termites, or white ants are a natural and important part of the environment. They live off the cellulose found in timber and because of their consumption