Pest Control
Beetles, moths and food pests
Carpets, clothes and the kitchen cupboard. 6 guides, most read first.
Ground beetles: what's crawling into your home?
A black beetle on the kitchen floor in the morning is almost always a ground beetle that wandered in overnight. Harmless, and usually fixed with a draught strip.
4 min read Carpet beetlesUn-snug the bug in your rug: detecting and preventing carpet beetles
Small holes along a seam, bare patches at the edge of a rug, tiny hairy larvae on the skirting. Carpet beetles are common, and most of the fix is thorough cleaning.
3 min read Stored food pestsFlour beetles: the common kitchen cupboard invader
Small reddish-brown beetles in the flour or crawling up the cupboard wall. The fix is finding the infested packet, binning it and cleaning, not spraying.
3 min read Stored food pestsFear no weevil: identification and infestation signs of stored product insects
Weevils in the rice, beetles in the flour, tiny insects walking up the cupboard door. How to tell what you have and get rid of them for good.
3 min read Clothes mothsCase-bearing clothes moths: what you need to know
Small holes in a wool jumper and tiny cases stuck to the fabric. Case-bearing moth larvae carry their homes with them, and cleaning is the main cure.
3 min read BeetlesWhen is a cockroach not a cockroach? When it's a cockchafer
A big brown beetle crashing into the window on a May evening. It is almost certainly a cockchafer: harmless, native and nothing like a cockroach.
3 min readNot sure what you're looking at?
Send us a photo or describe it. We will tell you what it is, whether it needs treating at all, and what it would cost, before anyone comes out.