What is a pest?
A pest is any plant or animal which is harmful to humans, their food or living conditions. Pests include animals which: Carry disease-causing micro-organisms and parasites Feed on and attack vegetable and cereal crops Damage stored food Attack and eat farm and station animals Damage…
Taking the Sting out of stinging insects
With the weather in Sydney starting to warm up, it is a good time to talk a walk around your property to check for any nests or hives built by stinging insects Only female Bees & Wasps are only capable of stinging The majority of…
Myth Busted!
Myth: Rats & mice have no Skelton Let me explain, so there is this old wives tale that rats and mice have no skeleton and they can collapse their skeleton to fit through almost any size opening. Truth & explanation This is incorrect on both…
Keeping your pipes clean, commercial style!
No matter what type of food premises you own or manage you might understand that if a problem arises in the pipes it can bring a booming business to a rapid standstill. Sydneys Best Pest Control has some great tips for cafes and restaurants in…
It looks like a grain of rice… but is it ?
Flies eggs come in all different sizes, shapes and locations, depending on the species. The most common fly egg you may come across is that of the house fly. Their eggs look like grains of white rice and usually hatch within 24 hours of being…
Is this a maggot?
Pest Control companies often take calls from customers who are having issues with white crawling insects. It is common to confuse fly maggots with pantry moth larvae as they are both white and both usually appear in the kitchen. The best way to identify what…
I am not a wanna-bee, I am a wasp!
You might be annoyed of the black and yellowish insect flying around disrupting a good summer picnic – please don’t be those are wasps and somehow beneficial and help balance the ecosystem. Wasps make nests from paper. They chew up strips of bark and spit…
How can storage pests be controlled?
There are a few steps that you can take at home or at your business to control storage pests which include: Identify & Monitor What storage pest are you dealing with & where are they coming from ? Identification of the pest is important to…
How can I protect my clothes from Clothes Moths?
There are several things you can do to protect your jumpers, blankets, and other woollens from clothes moths. We have compiled a list of easy steps you can take to help prevent your favourite woollen items from being eaten whilst they are stored away for…
How and why wasp nests are constructed
How & why do Wasps build their nests? From yellow jackets, to hornets to paper wasps they all are communal creatures who build nests to breed their young to make colonies. In recent times we seem to have a better opinion of bees and wasps…