How to Stop Slaters Invading Your Home
Slaters entering the home can be a problem in Australia. Learn how to keep slaters out of your home and how to control them.
Category Pest Prevention
Spring Cleaning? Do a Pest Spray!
With the temperature warming up, everyone thinks about clearing up the yard for outdoor entertaining, which often leads to cleaning out the garage and then the house – a good Spring clean! If you are giving your house and yard the once over, now’s a good time to be carrying out a general pest treatment, to prevent an insect explosion later in the season.
Paralysis ticks in Australia – All you need to know
The mention of paralysis tick (Ixodes holocyclus) can strike fear into the hearts of pet owners. The fear is justified… for a dog or cat, a bite from paralysis tick can lead to death in a very short time. Here's all you need to know about paralysis ticks; life-cycle information, where they live, how to prevent being bitten, how to remove ticks, symptoms of a tick bite, what to do if you or your pet gets bitten and more...
Top 30 Pest Prevention Tips
Pest prevention is often easier than the cure. Indeed, many pest problems can be prevented through good hygiene practices and a bit of home maintenance, even without using pest control products. So here are the top 30 pest prevention tips for inside and outside the home.
5 Step Action Plan for a Pest Free Christmas
When you’re entertaining family and friends at Christmas, you want your house to look its best. You certainly don’t want the horror of a stray cockroach or the annoyance of mosquitoes driving everyone inside. By following our 5 step Christmas action plan, you can have a pest free home this Christmas.
How to Get Rid of a Mosquito Problem in Your Yard
For those of us lucky enough to have had good Summer rains, for some it has come with the curse of increased mosquito numbers. However, there are a number of ways we can keep mosquito numbers down to prevent them annoying our BBQ or worse still finding their way inside to prevent a good night's sleep. Read on to find out more...
Cockroach Infestation? Use a Cockroach Bomb!
If you have a persistent cockroach problem or maybe a cockroach infestation, you need to pull out the “big guns” and a cockroach “bomb” is just the ticket!
Insecticide “bombs” or “foggers” are technically known as “total release aerosols” – once you press the button, there’s no stopping them and the entire contents of the aerosol are released...
Learn how foggers can help eliminate cockroach infestations and prevent them returning.
Pest Control Surface Sprays – How do they Work?
We've all seen the TV adverts – where a cockroach gets zapped as soon as it walks across a surface treated with a crawling insect surface spray. But is this how these products really work and how do you get the best pest control performance from your insecticide surface spray.
How to Prevent a Millipede Home Invasion!
Although millipedes are found all over Australia, those living in the Southern states (Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and SW Western Australia) are particularly at risk of a millipede home invasion! Why? This is where the Portuguese millipede likes to hang out. So now we are entering peak Millipede season, what can you do to keep them out of your home…
Top 12 Cockroach Hiding Places
“For every cockroach you see, there are at hundred more you don’t!” A scary thought, but this is certainly true for the smaller species of cockroaches that live inside homes. To get rid of a cockroach problem it is important to identify and treat all cockroach hiding placed. Not sure where to look? Here are our top 12 cockroach hiding places….