Having a good supply of firewood in your home is a great way to stay warm during the cold season and enjoy a barbeque night out around the bonfire. Unfortunately, wood piles attract all manners of unwanted pests including mice and rats. While rodents living outside your house may seem harmless, the urine and droppings they leave on your firewood can transfer serious diseases to human beings. If the pile of wood is too close to your house, you can be sure the rats will find their way to your house because they are sneaky and fast.…
Cockroaches, rats, fruit flies and all those pests that visit your home can be pretty annoying. Besides causing structural havoc to your house and bringing in the dirt, pests can be a vast source of diseases. Household pests reproduce incredibly fast; therefore, they are hard to get rid of once they are in your house. Like everything else in life, the best pest management strategy is to keep them from getting into your house in the first place.…
How would you feel if a guest left a review of your hotel and complained about bed bugs? Not good - and it wouldn’t reflect well on your business, either. Unfortunately, bed bugs are a fact of life and the occasional infestation is inevitable when you have so many guests staying.
However, that doesn’t mean you should give up on treating bed bugs. The right action helps reduce the number of infestations and keeps your guests happy.…
While you may associate rodents, ants, and other pests with rooms like the kitchen and pantry, there’s another room in your house than can be equally attractive to them: your baby’s bedroom. If your worried that your child could be sharing their sleeping quarters with some unwelcome friends, look out for these 4 pests next time you clean up.
Mice & Rats
If you let your baby eat snacks in their bedroom, you could be attracting mice and rats.…
In Australia, no home is ever completely safe from the voracious jaws of a few million marauding termites. This is because they are pretty much everywhere, especially in areas with plenty of trees and in yards where wood is plentiful in retaining walls, fences, garden tools and even mulch. As a gardener, your vegetables and blooms are your pride and joy. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing your garden flourish and produce an abundance of fruits and vegetables.…
