Ants, Flies & Small Pests

Bait them, do not spray them. Spraying kills the workers you can see and can make the colony split and spread.

The ants on your counter are foragers — a small share of the colony. The nest is elsewhere, often in a wall void, under tiles or outside. Killing foragers changes nothing.

What works:

1. Follow the trail to find where they enter. That is the point to seal.
2. Use a slow-acting bait so workers carry it back to the nest. It looks like nothing is happening for several days — that is the mechanism, not a failure.
3. Remove the food source — sugar, spillage, pet food left out, sticky jar rims, bins not sealed.
4. Fix moisture — leaking taps and damp under the sink attract them.

Do not clean the trail away before treatment. The trail is how the bait gets distributed.

If they return repeatedly after spraying, get the species identified before anything else is applied.

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Almost certainly drain flies or fruit flies, and both are breeding in something organic nearby rather than flying in from outside.

Drain flies are small, moth-like and sit still on walls near the sink. They breed in the film lining a drain pipe. Cleaning the floor and spraying the air does nothing; the drain itself has to be cleaned out.

Fruit flies hover around fruit, bins, drink bottles and mop buckets. They breed in the residue, not in the room.

Find the source in this order: sink and floor drains, the bin and the area under it, forgotten fruit and vegetables, drink and juice residue, mop heads and buckets, and any water sitting under equipment.

Once the breeding site is cleaned, numbers fall within days. Until it is, you can spray every morning and see them again by evening.

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Damp. Silverfish need humidity, and they feed on paper, cardboard, glue and starch — which is why they turn up in bookshelves, archives and stored files.

They are not a hygiene problem and they do not bite. They are a moisture indicator, and they can genuinely damage documents, book bindings, wallpaper and stored clothing.

What to do:

• Fix the damp first — leaks, condensation, poor ventilation in a store room. Without this, treatment is temporary.
• Get paper off the floor and away from external walls
• Use sealed boxes rather than open cardboard for archives
• Ventilate closed store rooms regularly

This matters most for offices, law firms, banks and schools holding paper records, where the damage is to something irreplaceable rather than to the building.

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Reduce the insects they are eating and close the gaps they come through. There is no treatment aimed at lizards themselves, and they are harmless.

House lizards follow their food supply, and that supply is the insects gathering around your lights at night. Deal with the insects and the lizards move on.

• Switch outdoor and balcony lights to warmer bulbs, which attract fewer insects
• Fit or repair window mesh and door screens
• Seal gaps around windows, air conditioner pipe holes and ventilation openings
• Keep the general insect population down indoors

Worth saying plainly: they eat mosquitoes, flies and cockroaches, so many households decide to tolerate them. If they are only in the kitchen or bathroom at night, an insect problem is usually the real issue.

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