Despite their tiny stature bedbugs are in fact pretty mighty! They have the ability to infest entire apartment buildings or hotels with lightening speed. In fact they wrote the book on how to be an annoying parasitic insect! If you’ve never seen one up close and personal they range in size from half to one […]
Category Archives: Pest Management
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In our natural world we’re surrounded by a multitude of different beetles, many of which have one thing in common. They just love to eat stuff! Wood-boring beetles for example like nothing better than a good tree to munch away on; leaf eating beetles prefer to dine on our plants; and as for dung beetles….well, […]
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Take a close look at your bedding Next time you strip the bed, take a close look at your bedding. You might be under the impression that bed-bugs are microscopic and can’t be seen by the naked eye, and while this is true for most of these visitors in various forms of the bed-bug cycle, […]
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You probably already know that mattresses can be a swathe of dust mites and bedbugs which happily thrive amongst the remnants of dried blood, sweat, saliva and any other type of bodily fluid you care to mention. Bed bugs tend to be around half a centimeter in length and their favourite food is you! They’re […]
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It’s fair to say that there is a lot written about pest control and how to manage it. In fact all you have to do is to type in ‘getting rid of mice’ and there are 1001 different web sites giving you varying sorts of advice. Some of it good and some of it…well… not […]
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If you’ve woken up covered in itchy bites then there’s every chance that your room is infected with bed bugs. Fortunately bed bugs aren’t known to transmit disease but nonetheless they are commonly classed as a household pest and unfortunately they’re on the rise here in Australia. The iceberg effect Little do most of us […]
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Australia is home to a wide variety of grubs and insects with the carpet beetle being one of them. This native beetle can be found throughout Australia in forests, gardens, woodland, and urban areas where it feeds on pollens. The larvae of this beetle are easily recognised for their brown fluffy bodies and bands of […]
