Smart Pest Control Ltd

Rats live in fields, woods, empty lands, farms, and many more areas where people and settlements are present. Rats are rarely a concern in houses unless those houses are located in urban and rural areas.

Furthermore, rats can live in many areas around the houses. Especially around or underneath the pile of firewood’s, stones, leaves, bricks, or other kind of piles are the main living areas of rats.

As Smart Pest Control, our priority is finding those entry points and sealing them properly. We use certain kind of materials which are not chewable by rodents which are metal threads, and we use silicon to make sure that those threads are not sticking and rusting.

Also, after all the holes are sealed, high quality rodenticides which can only be bought by professionals with necessary certificates are used with the secure bait stations which will be placed at the areas where your children can not reach. Even if they reach the bait boxes, the boxes can only be opened by specific keys. We aim to eliminate the rodents which sometimes get stuck inside the house when we seal the holes going outside the property.

Contrary to what is known, rodenticides, traps or stickers are not the most successful measures to deal with the rodent infestations. Your rodent problem will not be solved unless the holes the rodents use to get inside your property are properly sealed. Even if you poison, catch, or kill few of the rats, as long as the entry points are not sealed, they are always going to come back.

It should be known that the rodents always live as colonies and sometimes those colonies contain 20-30 of them.

As Smart Pest Control, we are ensuring that your problem is going to be solved. While giving you a 3-month warranty, in the 3-month period you are going be entitled to call us and book an appointment if you have an ongoing problem for no extra fee. Basically, you are going to covered with our unlimited number of visits.

Bed bugs are parasitic insects which have the means to travel. Scientists presume that there almost 90 different kinds of bed bugs worldwide. But Cimex Lectularius is the one which can fit the human environment very well.

Bed bugs can come into your house through many ways. Second-hand housewares are the most common sources of the bed bugs infestations. Another common way for the bed bugs to get inside your house is through your baggage which is put aside with baggage’s which may have bed bugs on planes and buses. Furthermore, if you go to a house which is infected with bed bugs, you can unintentionally bring them back to your house if they get on to your clothes without you knowing. Our your guests can bring bed bugs with them on their clothes unintentionally.

Sometimes bed bugs control can be difficult since people may think that having bed bugs in their houses is something to be ashamed of and they may not call professional pest controllers whereas it is a completely natural problem anyone can experience.

They may even try to take control of the situation themselves and use commercial insecticide which can only worsen the infestation all together.

It should be known that the best method to control the infestation is the spray method. But the eggs are not going to be damaged by the spray, so they may pose a threat. So, the spray treatment should be must be done again in 15 days. Sometimes when the infestation is out of control, 3rd or even the 4th treatment is needed.

As Smart Pest Control, we apply the spray treatment minimum of two times and give you a warranty for minimum of 3-months. We guarantee that we are going to be back for the further treatments (unlimited visits) if the problem is not solved until it is completely solved.

Cockroaches can be found infesting everything from homes to restaurants to ships and planes. They may follow water pipes and electrical lines through walls from one room to another and even from one apartment to another.

Cockroaches are accomplished hitchhikers. In fact, German cockroaches usually first get into buildings by riding in boxes, in furniture and in other items brought into the building. Most other cockroach species invade from the outside or from sewers or drains.

Most cockroaches prefer to rest on wood rather than on metal and other surfaces. That’s why you’ll often find them living in wood cabinets or in cardboard boxes.

German cockroach fecal material contains a pheromone that tells other cockroaches that the area is a good place to harbour. Large numbers of cockroaches may congregate in areas where fecal material has accumulated. These areas are called aggregation points.

There are two main methods of cockroach treatments. One of them is the gel-bait method. This method is used when the infestation is just beginning, and the situation is not uncontrollable. High quality bait/poison which can only be bought by Professionals is used for the places where needed and where the pets cannot reach using small safe containers by trained pest control technicians.

In this method, the insects which ate the bait die in 14-15 minutes. If it reaches its nest in the time period, the other cockroaches eat the dead body and they die as well, and with that nest is successfully destroyed.
But the eggs of the cockroaches don’t get damaged from the bait, so second treatment in 15 days is compulsory to eliminate the ones that will hatch.

Second method is the spray method. This method is preferred when the infestation is quite bad. Two treatments are done in two weeks’ time. That is because the eggs don’t get damaged by any kind of poison whatsoever.

To prevent this, spray method should be done in 15 days again. If the infestation is really bad, 3rd or the 4th visit can be inevitable.
All dishes and food items should be removed from shelving before treating for cockroaches. Good sanitation helps put stress on a cockroach population by making them more susceptible to treatments and baits.

As Smart Pest Control, we give you a warranty for minimum of 3-months. We guarantee that we are going to be back for the further treatments (unlimited visits) if the problem is not solved until it is completely solved.

Fleas are a common problem in UK homes, especially those with pets. You may discover a problem with fleas even if you do not have pets, if previous owners of your property kept cats or dogs. Fleas can also be carried on other (especially hairy) animals like rabbits, foxes, squirrels, rats, mice and livestock such as pigs.

As parasites, the greatest concern about the presence of fleas in your home or business comes from their bites. Although these are not painful, they can result in an uncomfortable itch or reactive rash. Your pets could also develop allergies to the flea saliva.

For the fleas, most effective method is the spray method. In some situations, two visits are necessary. But the important thing that needs attention is that in the houses where pets live, our small friends must be taken to the veterinary on same day that the treatment is going to take place.

As Smart Pest Control, we give you a warranty for minimum of 3-months. We guarantee that we are going to be back for the further treatments (unlimited visits) if the problem is not solved until it is completely solved.

Moths may conjure dull connotations in our mind, but there’s much more to moths than their flying nature around our front porch lights mid-summertime. Moths belong to the same order as butterflies, joining the order Lepidoptera, which means “scaly-winged”. Varying in colour and size, different species of moths possess different appearances, with some appearing bright and colourful with patterns while others appear dull with great camouflage. While some moths may possess beauty and beneficence, others are nocturnal blood-feeders. It is estimated that there are over 16,000 species of moths.

Moths feed on most anything that dissolves in water, such as flower nectar, tree sap, bird droppings, or decaying fruit. Moths are found in many different types of habitats, depending on the species, and they are sensitive to change. Therefore, moths are beneficial in indicating environmental changes and lend clues to the effects of pesticides, air pollution, and climate fluctuations.

Moths are nocturnal animals that prefer dark spaces, including basements, crawlspaces, pantries, and closets. Moths create damage within homes by feeding off different types of natural fibres found in your clothes. They can cause harm to materials like wool, silk, fur, feathers, and felt, and can also occupy your pantry in search of grains or oatmeal. However, the adult moths are not the harmful ones; the larvae actually destroys clothing.

Our moth control treatment includes a spray method in which we spray the whole property with the precise insecticide to eliminate all of moths and make them go away for good. We carry out multiple visits if needed. Our customers have to leave the property for 4-5 hours after we finish the treatment.

As Smart Pest Control, we are ensuring that your problem is going to be solved. While giving you a 3-month warranty, in the 3-month period you are going be entitled to call us and book an appointment if you have an ongoing problem for no extra fee. Basically, you are going to covered with our unlimited number of visits.

Though related, bees and wasps differ in important ways. Most wasps have a narrow “waistline” where the front portion of the abdomen tapers to become a small tube as it attaches to the middle body section, the thorax. Bees do not have this narrowing of the abdomen. Another difference is that bees feed nectar and pollen to their young (larvae), while wasps feed their larvae insects and spiders. Yellowjackets and hornets also scavenge food including fruit, sweets, meats and carrion.

One thing bees and wasps have in common is that some species are solitary and others are social. A solitary bee or wasp lives alone, making its own nest and raising its own larvae. Individuals of social species live together in colonies consisting of many “workers” and one or more “queens.” The workers specialize in different tasks and cooperate to raise the queen’s offspring. These species should be considered a greater threat to humans than solitary species. This is because social species, such as honeybees and yellowjackets, will defend an entire colony, and have more individuals available to do so. Solitary species, such as mud dauber wasps, defend their nest alone.

Honeybee (Apis mellifera)

The honeybee is a half-inch long, hairy, honey brown insect. They should not be confused with yellowjackets, which are black and bright yellow wasps. Honeybees live in extra-large colonies of up to 50,000 individuals. Their colonies can grow this large because they survive winter, even in northern states. The nest consists of several tiers or “combs” made of beeswax. It is located in cavities of trees, rock formations and buildings. In spring, a colony may produce a “swarm.” This occurs when a newly produced queen flies off with about half the colony’s worker bees to establish a new colony. These swarms often come to rest on trees and houses while scout bees search for a good spot for a new nest. If possible, such swarms should be tolerated, as they are in transit and usually leave within two to four days.

Bumble Bee (Bombus spp.)

The familiar buzzing, fuzzy yellow and black striped bumble bee is unmistakable. Up to 200, ½- to 1-inch-long bumble bees inhabit nests in old rodent burrows, under porches and in wall voids.

Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica)

This bee is a bumble bee look-alike that has a shiny, all-black abdomen, whereas the bumble bees abdomen is fuzzy, black and yellow. Unlike bumble bees, carpenter bees are solitary. Females chew ½-inch diameter holes in wood and bore tunnels that run several inches into the wood. Inside, eggs are laid and the resulting larvae develop on a mixture of pollen and nectar. Males guard the nest by buzzing intruders, but their defence is a bluff: male bees cannot sting.

Paper Wasps (Polistes spp.)

Paper wasps are perhaps the most common wasps around structures. They are also known as “umbrella wasps” because their nests look like umbrellas hanging upside-down from eaves and overhangs. Common species include the northern paper wasp (P. fuscatus), a black to reddish-brown wasp up to ¾-inch long, and the European paper wasp (P. dominula) which is black and yellow, resembling a yellowjacket. A paper wasp nest is a single comb of hexagonal cells made of a papery material the wasps form by chewing wood and mixing it with saliva. Larger nests can harbour up to 75 paper wasps including larvae and pupae developing within the cells. To feed the larvae, paper wasps capture insects, especially caterpillars. Late in the year, colonies of paper wasps, yellowjackets and hornets produce new queens that abandon the nest (it will not be reused) and seek shelter for winter. Many find their way into structures and are later seen crawling sluggishly across the floor when temperatures rise in late winter or early spring.

Yellowjackets (Vespula spp., Paravespula spp.)

More people are stung by yellowjackets than any other type of wasp or bee. Notoriously aggressive, the yellowjacket’s shiny yellow and black striped abdomen is an unmistakable warning. Often mistakenly called “bees,” yellowjackets are in fact wasps. They construct paper nests up to several feet across that contain combs arranged like the floors of a building covered by a papery envelope. Up to 3,000 (many more in warmer states) wasps can be present in the yellowjacket colony. Nests of the Eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons) are located in the ground, while the German yellowjacket (Paravespula germanica) nests in cavities including crawlspaces, attics and wall voids. Adults consume nectar and sweets, but feed the larvae on captured insects. When temperatures cool in late summer, yellowjacket numbers peak just as their insect food supply begins to decline. They scavenge more aggressively at this time, taking food from trash containers and picnickers. When disturbed, some yellowjackets sting repeatedly, while others sting and lose their stingers as do honeybees.

Hornets (Dolichovespula maculata and Vespa crabro)

The so-called bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata), about ¾-inch long, black and white, with white face, is actually a larger yellowjacket species.
Its nest is the familiar basketball-size papery oval hanging from tree limbs and sometimes structures. Colonies are relatively small, containing up to 700 wasps. An even larger wasp is the European hornet (Vespa crabro). This is a true hornet, more than an inch long and reddish brown in colour with dull orange stripes. Nests occur in trees and in attics and wall voids of structures near forested areas.


The most important element of wasp and bee control is to destroy the nest.

In some cases, attempting to destroy a nest becomes a greater health risk than simply tolerating and avoiding it. But nests, especially those of social species, should be destroyed if they are close enough to humans to pose a stinging threat. The nests of honeybees, bumble bees, yellowjackets and hornets should always be approached with caution, preferably at night when most of the workers are present but reluctant to fly. Try not to carry a light, as wasps and bees may fly toward it. Instead, set the light aside or cover it with red cellophane (insects cannot see red light).
For Wasp/Bee Control, we find all the nests and destroy them. In some cases in which the nest is not reachable, we use a certain insecticide in the form of powder and smoke to eliminate all the bees/wasps and make sure the problem is solved. We have the necessary equipment such as ladders and torches to help us find and destroy the nest.

As Smart Pest Control, we are ensuring that your problem is going to be solved. While giving you a 3-month warranty, in the 3-month period you are going be entitled to call us and book an appointment if you have an ongoing problem for no extra fee. Basically, you are going to covered with our unlimited number of visits.

There are several species of squirrel, but tree squirrels are the most common nuisance for homeowners because they inhabit attics and garages and cause damage.

They often gnaw on the exterior and interior walls, timbers, cables, and electric wiring. They have been known to short out electric power transformers due to their activities around power lines.

Squirrels are typically discovered because they make a lot of noise in the area they inhabit. The gray squirrel is the most common structure-infesting squirrel species.

The large population and decreasing natural habitat due to construction in many areas cause them to seek shelter in houses. The chilly months of fall and winter cause squirrels to seek the warmth that is found in attics.

As Smart Pest Control, we carefully find their routes and hiding places and use professional bait to get rid of them. We don’t recommend our customers to try any method without the necessary knowledge.

As Smart Pest Control, we are ensuring that your problem is going to be solved. While giving you a 3-month warranty, in the 3-month period you are going be entitled to call us and book an appointment if you have an ongoing problem for no extra fee. Basically, you are going to covered with our unlimited number of visits.

Ants have become the primary pest infesting homes in recent years and are usually very difficult to control. Successful control of ant infestations takes some skill that is gained through knowledge of ant behaviour and experience in dealing with ants.

With more than 700 species in the United Kingdom, ant identification can be quite a challenge. Start by looking for trails. Ants very rarely travel alone and are usually spotted when they’re hunting as a colony along paths that have been well established. When you've found a trail, look at the sizes of the ants. Are they identical or do they vary in size? Also observe when the ants are active—during the day or at night? Look for nests at the end of trails—especially in areas with soil. Soil nests have distinct shapes or patterns depending on the ant species.

Ant infestations tend to happen fast. Regardless of whether your ant problem is an annoyance or an all-out infestation, you may be surprised to learn how fascinating these little creatures actually are.

Ants are social insects that live in colonies and have several different types or castes of individuals. Each caste has a different function or job in the colony.

Reproductive include the original queen and the swarmers. The original queen’s job is to lay eggs. Swarmers are winged males and females that fly out to start new colonies and spread to new areas. These swarmers mate during the swarm, and the male dies soon after. The queen then locates a suitable nesting site, sheds her wings and begins to set up a colony.

The lifespan of ants depends on the caste. Males live for only a few weeks and die after mating. Workers usually live for several months. Queens can live for decades under the right conditions. Ants are active all year long in tropical climates. In cooler climates, they survive the winter by going into a state of dormancy or inactivity known as diapause.

To get rid of ants, it is important to identify the ant species before attempting ant control. Some ant species, like Pharaoh ants, can be controlled using baits, while others cannot. To get rid of ants successfully, it is usually necessary to follow them back to their colony and treat the colony directly.

As Smart Pest Control, we apply a spray treatment and give you a warranty for minimum of 3-months. In some cases, in which the infestation is just starting, we may use Ant Gel to solve the issue. We guarantee that we are going to be back for the further treatments (unlimited visits) if the problem is not solved until it is completely solved.

Spiders are a diverse group of arthropods found throughout the world. Some species are tiny, while others, such as the tarantula, are very large. Although most common house spiders are harmless, widow spiders and brown recluse spiders are two common venomous types.

Spiders are voracious predators, feeding on insects, other spiders and even small mammals and reptiles.

They differ from insects in that they have two, rather than three, body regions. These two regions are the cephalothorax — which contains the eyes, mouthparts and legs — and the abdomen.

Spiders have four pairs of legs, while insects have three pairs of legs. They possess modified appendages called pedipalps located in the front by the mouth, which in some species resemble an extra set of legs.

Most spiders have eight simple eyes located on the front of the cephalothorax, but some spiders have fewer eyes. The arrangement of these eyes is often used to distinguish between various species of spiders.

Some spiders may be harboring outdoors in piles of firewood and debris, under items lying on the ground or in voids in hollow blocks, while others may live in attics and crawl spaces or other areas throughout the home.
We use a spray method to eliminate the spiders inside your property. In some cases, when the spiders come to the house from the outside of the property, it is especially hard to control the infestation since it is not possible to eliminate the infestations that's going on in the garden or around the property. We carry out multiple visits if needed. Our customers have to leave the property for 4-5 hours after we finish the treatment.

As Smart Pest Control, we are ensuring that your problem is going to be solved. While giving you a 3-month warranty, in the 3-month period you are going be entitled to call us and book an appointment if you have an ongoing problem for no extra fee. Basically, you are going to covered with our unlimited number of visits.

A silverfish is not really a fish. Silverfish are, in fact, nocturnal, wingless insects. Their bodies are flattened and tapered from head to rear and covered with scales. There are 3 long bristle-type appendages at the end of a silverfish's body. Antennae are long and threadlike, while eyes are compound, small and widely spaced.

Silverfish are a common insect found all over the world.
Silverfish aren't picky houseguests; they'll take any vacant room in the house. They're flexible in breeding sites as well, such as wall voids, floors and attics. Keeping the house at room temperature and high humidity makes silverfish very happy critters.

Silverfish are known cannibals. Along with themselves, silverfish will also eat paper, and in the case of some species, linen, tissues and even cellulose. Faced with the option, silverfish will opt for protein over carbs.

All that aside, silverfish can go without food or water for weeks, but once they find it, will stick close.

Knock first. Silverfish breeding can take place in almost any room of the house. Eggs are laid in cracks, and cannot hatch below 70 degrees F. Nymphs molt a number of times, and nymphs and adults can survive between 32- and 112-degrees F.

For the most part, silverfish just ruin your paper, especially glazed paper, wallpaper and books. However, sometimes silverfish will damage carpeting and fabrics.

Cardboard cartons of books and papers are the perfect vehicle for silverfish and bristletails. Silverfish can get inside through almost anything brought in from the outside and be easily transferred from one property to another. They will hide in dark, damp, places and come out looking for food. Once they start to breed, silverfish can become an infestation easily unless taken care of.

For Silverfish Control, we spray the whole house with certain insecticides to make sure all of them are eliminated. We carry out multiple visits if needed. Our customers have to leave the property for 4-5 hours after we finish the treatment.