Indoor Pests

Guidance on dealing with creatures that invade homes and indoor spaces. Articles focus on prevention, identification and control of moisture-loving and fabric-damaging pests.

Common Home for Pests: Nooks and Crannies

Pests hide in small spaces around your home seeking food and shelter, so finding their hiding spots is key to solving infestations.

Controlling and Preventing Damp

Stop damp damage before it starts by identifying whether condensation, rising damp or penetrating damp is the culprit in your home.

Keeping Your Home Hygienic

Focus your cleaning efforts on bathrooms and kitchens where germs actually hide instead of bleaching everything in sight.

Mould and Mildew

How moisture creates the ideal conditions for mould and mildew to grow in your home and what you can do to stop it.

Thrips and Their Allies

Tiny thrips damage plants by rasping leaves and sucking sap, but you can control them with insecticides, organic methods or biological controls.

Types of Moths and Control Methods

Learn which moths damage your home and how to prevent or treat infestations in clothes, carpets and furnishings.

Types of Textile Pests

Identify the textile pests damaging your home, from clothes moths to carpet beetles and their destructive larvae.

Useful Methods to Control Mites

Get rid of spider mites, dust mites and flour mites in your home with proven control methods that actually work.

What Are Ticks?

Small blood-sucking arachnids that lurk in grass and bushes, waiting to feed on animals and humans, and how to spot them.

Woodlice and Silverfish

Woodlice and silverfish are common household visitors with different needs and behaviours, requiring different approaches to deal with them.