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Below is a brief outline of early warning signs. For more information on each pest, click on links to the individual articles on common household pests;

Pest

Telltale signs

Cockroaches

  • Tiny faecal droppings, smudges from regurgitated food and egg cases.
  • The cockroaches themselves, particularly if disturbed at night by suddenly turning on the lights.
  • Cockroaches seen during the day may - but not always - indicate a large population.

Rodents

  • Droppings, half-eaten food, gnaw marks, odour and stains from their urine.
  • Physical damage to electrical cables, furniture, books etc.

Spiders

  • Webs or burrows/holes

  • Spiders

Termites

  • Damaged wood, mud shelter tubes, the nest itself.
  • In the case of dry-wood termites, small fecal pellets kicked out of the wood.

Wood borers

  • Pinholes in wood furniture and fencing, small piles of dust (frass) below the holes.

Wasps and hornets

  • The insects or the nests. See also Bees

Fleas

  • Cats and dogs scratching, small bites around the ankles on humans.

Possums

  • Noise at night, odours.

Birds and bird lice

  • The birds noise, nests and droppings.
  • Bird lice that migrate to humans will leave an itchy, painful rash.

Bedbugs

  • Small bite marks in rows on the skin.
  • Minute, white eggs and adult bedbugs can be found in cracks and crevices such as in springs of bed, in mattresses, furniture.
  • Sweet, musty smell.

Fabric pests, including carpet beetles and clothes moths

  • Damage to clothes, carpets, book bindings, linen etc.

Ants

  • Ant trails, ant nests.

Maggots

  • The smell!
  • Flies.

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