Pest Advice Blog

As we do with many pests, we tend to associate ant infestations with warm summer days and the fresh air of spring. Carpenter ants are a particularly dangerous pest when they get inside your home and they’ll demand immediate and professional ant …

You might not like this, but wasps are an important part of our ecosystem and their disappearance would bring about some grave consequences. Wasps are pollinators, and despite their persistent need for wasp control during the warmer months of the …

Buying a new home is an incredibly exciting time, but it can also be extremely stressful. You have mounds of paperwork to get through, lots of important details to think about and difficult decisions to make. It’s important that during that process, …

You might be surprised to learn that winter is a busy time for residential pest control experts. We receive all sorts of call outs throughout the year, and winter is no different. Many people wrongly assume that pests die off come wintertime. They …

It’s just as well we aren’t trying to write a post about the Top 3 Pests that People Consider the Best! The truth is that just about everybody hates pests, especially when they make their way into our homes. They can bring bacteria and infection …

It’s difficult to imagine, but some people don’t mind finding certain pests in their back yard. In fact, some keen gardeners will actively pursue certain pest populations on their plot. While some people might scream and flee the scene upon spotting …

How many different species of wasps do you think there are? You might only identify them as wasps whose stings hurt, and the other wasps whose stings hurt an awful lot more. Scientists believe there are around 30,000 different species of wasp – and …

Just when you thought ants weren’t already hard enough to control, you might come across a swarm of flying ants. No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you – certain ants have wings and can fly. But they won’t fly at any old time. In fact, they’re flying …

When another summer barbeque in the yard’s been ruined by pests, you would be forgiven for vindictively thinking about how the colder temperatures are sure to kill them off. You might imagine blankets of snow, icicles hanging from your building and …

In the peak of summer, their numbers are high and large swarms can be terrifying. It’s hard to believe that wasp season will ever end. They’re a constant frustration in the back yard and a nuisance at barbecues. When the temperatures start to drop …

More than any other pest, the majority of people really, really don’t want to find rats inside their homes. Ants, flies, cockroaches and even stink bugs all bring their own problems, but rats are a different pest altogether. They carry disease and …

When the summer sun begins to disappear, a lot of animals and insects do too. As colder temperatures begin to arrive many animals will be busy building their food reserves in preparation for winter. Insects may not stockpile food, but their …