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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.