Ants
Ants are nuisance pests and can cause electrical and electronic faults when they get into equipment such as switch gear, exchanges and computers. Ants can also contaminate food stuffs and damage garden plants.
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Bed Bugs
Bed Bugs are a risk in your own home and are becoming more common in New Zealand as there are large turnovers of visitors in places such as backpackers, hotels and motels.
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Carpet Beetle, Clothes Moth & Case Moth
The Carpet Beetle larva and several other insect larvae such as Hide Beetle, Larder Beetle, Clothes Moth and Case Moth, destroy carpet and other natural fibrous material.
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Cockroaches
Common pest species are the German Cockroach, Gisborne Cockroach & Native Bush Cockroach.
They are extremely hardy and can survive, reproduce and adapt in extremes of heat and cold.
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Cluster Flies
Cluster flies are (8-15mm) in size with a dark gray to black non-metallic abdomen. The larvae of the fly feeds on earthworms in grass pasture or lawn areas. Late autumn and early winter the adult flies will move into homes and other buildings to hibernate over winter.
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Flies
There are many species of flies in New Zealand posing a threat to hygiene and a nuisance to humans and animals. Flies are vectors of a large number of diseases including gastroenteritis, dysentery, typhoid, polio, salmonella and tuberculosis.
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Fleas
Fleas are a very real health hazard as they are vectors of many diseases including salmonella, tape worm, typhus, even bubonic plague, and other fevers.
Common fleas are cat fleas associated with biting humans. They prefer to feed on the blood of cats but if there are a large number of fleas or the normal cat hosts have been removed they will readily bite humans.
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Mice
The most common pest in urban and rural environments is the house mouse. Rodents will enter your buildings at any time of the year. Autumn / winter is when rodents seek new supplies of food as the natural supplies in the countryside are in shorter supply. Due to the colder weather they are also seeking shelter and ample food in our homes, offices, shops and factories.
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Mosquitos & Sandflies
Mosquitoes bite us and suck our blood giving rise to itchy swollen lumps on our skin. They are annoying pests causing considerable discomfort but no evidence has been shown that Mosquitoes carry diseases in New Zealand as they do in other parts of the world.
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Possums
Possums can become a general nuisance around homes and other buildings living in our roof space. Power poles and trees! - Possums cannot tell the difference, often causing massive blackouts and personal electrocution.
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Rats
Of all the world's pest animal species the rat is the most successful. In spite of centuries of conflict with man and numerous other predators it continues to adapt and survive even in the most harshest conditions.
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Silverfish
Silverfish are flat, wingless, grey nocturnal insects with three tail like appendages at the end of the abdomen. Silverfish run rapidly especially at night. Their style of movement resembles that of a swimming fish, hence the name silverfish. They are most disliked for their habits of scurrying across carpets and dropping out of ceilings.
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Spiders
New Zealand's largest spider is the Avondale spider. New Zealand venomous spiders include the New Zealand Katipo, Funnel Webs, Black Widows and Tarantulas. Spiders are ferocious and aggressive predators.
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White Tail Spiders
White Tail spiders are now well established throughout New Zealand. They are common in urban dwellings. White Tails are active hunters, preying upon other types of spiders. White Tails may be found roaming inside houses, especially in warmer weather.
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Wasps & Bees
There are several kinds of New Zealand native wasps which have never become a nuisance. Pest wasps include German, common and the paper wasps. They can be distinguished from bees by there distinct black and yellow stripes and hairless bodies. Honey bees show much less distinct stripes of browns with Bumble bees having much larger furry bodies.
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