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Rats are pests in more than one way, chewing through building materials and wiring, eating and contaminating food, and are carriers of disease. Don’t let a rat infestation take over your home or workplace.

Do you have rats in your home or workplace?

Rodents can cause a lot of damage to your property, they cause expensive damage to your home, food and fabrics, and rats pose a significant health risk to humans and pets. Common diseases they carry include Salmonella, Weil’s disease, E.coli, Cryptosporidiosis and Tuberculosis. Also, rats often carry fleas, mites and ticks, and can cause acute allergic reactions.

Prevent Rat Infestations

The best insurance against rats is to prevent an infestation altogether. Avoid giving them a reason to hang around your home or workplace by keeping all rubbish sealed, keep food in closed containers, and don’t put meat in your compost. Also ensure all holes and gaps around your home are sealed, as a common place for rats to enter a home is through poorly sealed eaves. Unfortunately, they can often squeeze through even the smallest of holes.

Removing Rats

A great way to remove rats from your home is to get a cat. They are great company and natural rat predators. A good cat can help to remove a rat infestation in just a few weeks.

Trapping rats is the traditional way to remove a rat infestation. The best way to ensure your success is to identify the rats’ feeding and nesting places. You will know where they have been by finding rat droppings, holes chewed in the walls, or food around your home or office. This is where you’ll want to leave the traps. Just remember to check the traps regularly and remove and dispose of dead rats immediately.

Professional Rat Removal

Get rid of rats from your home or work place by contacting Bay Pest Services for a free quote and professional advice. The experienced team at Bay Pest Services are your registered Rotorua pest control experts.

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The cooler months are when mice start to find a warm place to spend the winter. Don’t let these pests take over your home or workplace.

Mice & Rodent Control

When the temperatures outside begin to drop, mice begin searching for a warmer place to live. Often attracted by the smell of food and the warmth of a house, they can exploit even the smallest of holes to gain entry to your home or workplace.

Mice carry disease and pose serious health risks. They also have teeth that grow continuously, so are constantly looking for things to gnaw. This can lead to significant damage to items like cupboards and furniture. Sometimes these little rodents can even cause house fires through chewed electrical cables.

If left untreated, an infestation of mice can quickly spread, and while DIY pest control products are a cost effective way to control small infestations, professional mouse control is advised for more established colonies.

Preventing Mouse Infestations

The best insurance against an infestation of mice is to prevent it altogether. Keep all rubbish sealed and keep your home or office clean, be sure not to leave food scraps lying around, and keep all food in glass or metal containers. Don’t forget to clean behind your fridge as this is a favourite place of mice to build their nests.
To prevent mice from entering your home it is important to fill all cracks, crevices, holes and gaps larger than the width of an adult finger with cement or a mixing compound. Do not use wood or a similar material to fill these holes, as mice are capable of easily chewing through those materials.

Professional Mice Removal

Call the Rotorua qualified Pest Control experts, Bay Pest Services today for a free quote and professional advice on how to remove mice from your home or office.

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Wasps make nests in the ground, ponga trees, and wall cavities, and can become aggressive quickly. Aggressive wasps become more prevalent towards the end of summer.

Nuisance Wasps

Anyone who has been stung by a wasp will agree that it can be a very painful experience. To the one in thirty people who are allergic to stings, it can even be life threatening. Even if someone is not allergic, a wasp sting around the mouth or throat can still be a major concern if the swelling leads to blocked airways. For this reason it is important to ensure that wasp nests are properly treated and removed.

If you’ve noticed a high number of wasps around your home, it is likely that there is a nest nearby. You’ll commonly find a wasp nest in covered areas with easy outside access. This can include wall cavities, roof spaces or under the eaves of buildings. A single nest may contain thousands of wasps and they can attack in large numbers if disturbed or threatened. This means that dealing with wasp nests requires great care. The threat of attack is why DIY treatment is not recommended, especially for those sensitive to stings.

The risk of encountering aggressive wasps is particularly high towards the end of summer as the numbers in the colony swell. It is always preferable to destroy a nest as early as possible, before the size of the nest and its population increases.

Wasp Control and Removal

Bay Pest Services are qualified and experienced pest control specialists who can safely destroy and remove wasps nests within your home or garden. The service is fast, effective and affordable.

Call the registered Rotorua Pest Control experts, Bay Pest Services today for a free quote for wasp removal services and professional advice.

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New Zealand has 40 species of ants, with pest control methods varying depending on the species you are dealing with.

Ants and Insect Control Rotorua

Ants are an irritant when they come into the home looking for food. The most common species in NZ, the Garden Ant, is not thought to carry disease, however it’s impossible to know where the ants were last foraging for food. It is advised therefore to take steps to prevent them entering your home and food cupboards. You can do this by keeping all food in airtight containers and cleaning up all food and drink spills.

Controlling ants can be difficult as they can enter your home or office through even the tiniest cracks in their quest for food and water. Ants can nest almost anywhere: in lawns, walls, stumps, even under house foundations and foot paths.

Don’t ignore the ants around your home or business as an ant can live a relatively long lifetime and depending on the type of ant some can live for over a decade.

While it’s tempting to kill an ant when you spot one, it is more important to track that one ant back to the nest. It will take you right back to the Queen(s) and larvae, so you can take them all out at once. Most DIY ant control products are short-term as they will only kill the ants you see. Plus, many home remedies don’t account for the fact that different kinds of ant infestations require different treatments.

It is true that sprays, poisons and other DIY ant control products can help to deal with smaller ant problems. However, it is advised to get professional pest control services to effectively deal with larger, multiple or tropical ant infestations. Our solutions are much more effective, as we can knock out the nest once and for all.

Ant Infestations & Ant Removal

To remove an ant infestation from your home of office call the registered Rotorua Pest Control experts, Bay Pest Services today for a free quote and professional advice.

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Flea infestations can be difficult to get rid of with off-the-shelf solutions.

Fleas & Flea Infestations

Fleas are a common problem in homes, especially for cat or dog owners. They have the possibility to transmit disease, however flea bites are the most common concern to people and pets.

Fleas can also be a problem when moving in to a new home, as the cocoons can remain dormant for two years or more before becoming active again. It is common for infestations to be awoken by the vibration of footsteps when people move in.

Fleas Treament for the Home

Adult fleas often find their way into your home on pets, but flea eggs, larvae, and pupae largely live and develop in the pet’s environment – your home.  Effective flea control means treating your home, as well as the fleas on your pet.  We understand the flea life-cyle and are uniquely qualified to remove these small pests from your home. Not only that, we ensure that the next generation of fleas does not develop.

Call Bay Pest Services today for a free quote and professional advice from a qualified Rotorua pest control expert.

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Borer damage can have long lasting effects, with the strength and value of your property at jeopardy – don’t leave it any longer.

Termite and Borer Removal

Termites and Borer can weaken timber, so can threaten the structural integrity of your home or workplace over time.

Borer Control

There are 7 species of borer in NZ with the most common being the Common House Borer. Small holes (2-4mm) on the surface of timber and piles of fine sawdust are sure signs that you may have borer in the furniture or timber of your home.

Borer attacks untreated and damp timber and treating infested areas is often easier said than done. Wood must be stripped and treated directly to completely remove the pest. This is because airborne treatments only kill the flying adult insects and will not remove the larvae inside the timber.

Termite Control

Termites live in large colonies ranging into the thousands. These invasive species damage wood, so they can pose a significant threat to New Zealand timber, homes and economy.

In order to identify a termite infestation, we perform inspections and may employ monitoring stations. After highly active areas are located, we utilise a range of methods including bait stations and liquid solutions to address problem areas and eradicate nests.  We also provide recommendations for reducing possible termite food sources such as woodpiles and addressing moisture sources.

Stopping Borer and Termite Damage

Contact Bay Pest Services for a free quote for your home or business, and professional advice from a qualified Rotorua Pest Control expert.

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