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(including Ants, Bed Bugs, Carpet Beetles, Common House Borer, Cockroaches, Fleas, Flies, Mosquitoes, Silverfish, Spiders, Wasps)
Buy products to control insects and flies by clicking the circular icons at the top of this page. ARGENTINE ANTS are one of the world’s most invasive and problematic ant species. They are very aggressive, and though not poisonous they will bite people. Unlike other ant species, Argentine Ant colonies cooperate with each other, and can combine over winter into super-colonies. They reach enormous numbers, which increases both their demand for food and their aggression toward other insect populations. Argentine Ants eliminate native ants, compete with kiwi and other native species for foods, and displace and kill New Zealand’s native invertebrates. BED BUGS FEED ON HUMANS primarily, but will also seek blood from poultry, rats, mice, canaries, dogs, birds, cats and other mammals. Visible to the naked eye, adults are brown to reddish-brown, oval-shaped, flattened, and about 0.6 to 1.5 cms long. Their flat shape enables them to hide easily in cracks and crevices. Bed Bugs can be found around mattress buttons and beading, in bedsprings, in any crevice of wooden bed frames, picture frames, floorboards, cracks and many other places throughout the house. Bed Bugs have a beak-like piercing/sucking mouthpart system. Clues to Bed Bug infestation can be bites, a characteristic obnoxious sweet odour, white egg deposits in cracks or on rough surfaces, and/or small red to reddish brown faecal spots here and there on surfaces. They feed mostly at night. Bed Bugs have become more prevalent in households due to increased use of baits for control of ants and cockroaches instead of insecticide sprays. We advise that you contact a qualified pest control operator (who holds an Approved Handler’s Certificate) to apply a residual liquid, aerosol or dust residual insecticide to treat Bed Bugs. NOTE: RESTRICTED SALE OF PESTICIDES Use of Pesticides – Approved Handler Certification Under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act which relates to the use of pesticides, all persons using most pesticides need to hold a “Full Approved Handler Certificate”. Pesticides are required to be under the control of an Approved Handler if, and when, they are used in a wide dispersive manner, by a commercial operator or applied onto or into water. It further states that there are no restrictions on the sale of these pesticides to people who are not Approved Handlers. The Approved Handler control only applies at the point of use. If these products are sold in small pack sizes for domestic or home garden use by the general public (i.e. by someone who is not a commercial contractor carrying out work for hire or reward), they are unlikely to be used in a wide dispersively, and therefore the Approved Handler control will not apply. Approved Handlers are responsible for ensuring that the pesticides are handled safely and that they do not cause harm to people or the environment. The most hazardous pesticides will be ‘tracked’, which means they are subject to more rigorous control. ERMA New Zealand has a list of pesticides requiring Approved Handler and Tracking controls. |