Flying Insect Control Kraaifontein

Kraaifontein is our next-door neighbour, just up the road from our base in Brackenfell.

Flying insects around Kraaifontein

Flies breed around farms, stables and refuse in summer. Paper wasps nest under eaves and in sheds.

The town sits on flat to gently rolling land where the Northern Suburbs meet the farmland of the Joostenberg Vlakte. Summers are hot and dry, much hotter than the coast, and winters are cold and wet.

There are older family homes and semi-detached houses near the centre, newer townhouse complexes and security estates on the edges, and denser housing in areas like Wallacedene and Bloekombos. Smallholdings and farms in the Joostenberg Vlakte area add barns, stables and sheds. Each type of property brings its own mix of pests.

Rats and mice from open land and farms, Argentine ants and flies in summer are top of the list. Wasps and fleas round it out.

From the technician

If a cloud of big shiny flies suddenly appears in one room, check the ceiling. A rat or bird that died in the roof is the usual cause, and the flies stop once the carcass is removed.

For landlords, flying insect complaints often come down to maintenance: a cracked drain, a missing window screen or a bin area that floods. Fixing those is cheaper than repeat treatments.

What gives them away

Our process, step by step

We start by identifying the insect properly, because a drain fly needs a completely different fix from a house fly or a mosquito. Breeding sites come first: drains are cleaned out and treated with a larvicide or bio-enzyme product, standing water is tipped or treated, and waste areas are sorted out. Only then do we use residual sprays on resting surfaces such as window frames and wall tops, fly bait stations away from food, and ULV fogging where a large space needs a quick knockdown. In commercial kitchens and food stores we install insect light traps with glue boards so there is constant monitoring between visits. Wasp nests are treated with a dust or spray directly into the nest and removed once the colony is dead.

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Stopping a repeat visit

• Fit fly screens on kitchen windows and keep a self-closing door or strip curtain on back doors that open onto bins.
• Check eaves, carports and garden furniture in early spring for small paper wasp nests while they are still easy to deal with.
• Tip out pot plant saucers, birdbaths and anything else that holds water for more than a few days.
• Store flour, cereal and pet food in sealed containers so pantry moths have nothing to breed in.
• Pour boiling water down slow drains weekly and scrub the inside of the drain pipe with a brush, since that slime is where drain flies breed.

How much will it cost?

The price depends on which insect we are treating, because a single wasp nest is a very different job from a fly problem in a large food factory. The size of the property, how many breeding sites there are and how hard they are to get at, such as roof voids or sealed drains, all affect the time on site. Commercial sites with light traps and scheduled visits are usually best quoted as a contract, and we give free quotes once we know what is flying.

Fly swatters, screens and a good bin routine handle a lot of household fly problems, and we would rather you did that than empty a can of spray into the kitchen. Where DIY falls down is when the source is hidden, like a dead rat in the ceiling, a broken drain under the floor or a wasp nest in a wall cavity. If you are still seeing the same insects two weeks after cleaning up, the breeding site is somewhere you have not found yet.

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