Where our facts come from
- State health departments and environment agencies, which license pest control.
- Biosecurity agencies, for fire ants, European wasps and other declared pests.
- Museums and universities, for what a pest looks like and how it lives.
- The pesticide regulator's public product register, never a manufacturer's marketing.
- Tenancy and consumer agencies, for end of lease rules and your rights.
What we won't write
We don't make claims about how safe a pesticide is, and we don't promise results. Claims like that are restricted by law for good reason, and only the business doing the work can tell you what its products are and how they're used. We tell you what to ask instead.
We don't publish prices, rank businesses or write reviews. We don't give DIY instructions for anything that can hurt you or break the law, such as spraying a nest, handling a spider or trapping a possum.
Safety lines
Where a pest can hurt someone, the page says what to do first, with public numbers only: 000 in an emergency, and the Poisons Information Centre for poisonings. We never give a number of our own.
Keeping it current
Licence rules, biosecurity zones and tenancy laws change. Rule pages carry the date we last checked them at the source, and we review them regularly. Anything that changes the advice is updated as soon as we find it.
Some photos on this site are illustrations made with an AI image tool. They do not show a real job or a business in our network.
