Flying Insect Control

The common mistake with flying insects is to treat only what you can see. Mosquitoes, flies and moths rarely breed where they are bothering you — they breed in standing water, in waste, or inside textiles that have not been moved for months. So a survey starts with the source, and treatment of the adult insect is added on top of that.

Mosquitoes: start with the standing water

Mosquito larvae develop in water, and very little of it is needed — a bottle cap of water held in a container is enough to raise larvae. The first step is therefore source reduction: emptying it, covering it, or applying a larvicide where it cannot be drained.

Around the building and its grounds we work through:

• Plant pot saucers, buckets, and folds in sheeting and tarpaulins
• Blocked gutters and downpipes
• Tyres, containers and scrap left in the open
• Water tanks, ornamental ponds and irrigation lines
• Gully traps, drains and pockets of water in basements

ULV fogging for adult mosquitoes supplements that work; it does not replace it. Only the female mosquito bites, and she does it to develop her eggs. While the water she lays in is still there, adult treatment gives short-lived relief.

Flies: mechanical control comes first

Fly breeding follows organic waste. Until the bin store, the ground around the containers, and the floors where waste oil and food debris collect are brought under control, no treatment holds for long. In food production, kitchens and retail areas we keep chemical use to a minimum.

Non-chemical control leads in those areas: fly screens to windows and vents, air curtains or strip curtains at external doors, and correctly sited insect light traps. Siting matters — a unit goes away from the entrance and out of sight of the outside door, never above a food preparation surface.

Moths and wasps

The moth you see in flight is the adult; the damage is done by the larva. Clothes and carpet moths go for wool, felt and carpet, while pantry moths go for nuts, flour and cereals. They are two different jobs, and treating the wrong one wastes the visit. We find the source first — the back of a wardrobe, the edge binding of a carpet, under furniture that is rarely moved, or an opened packet in the larder.

With wasps the target is the nest itself. We look for it in roof voids, under eaves and in wall cavities, and we treat when the wasps are in the nest. Please do not tackle a nest yourself.

Treatment and afterwards

Every product we use is a biocidal product licensed by the Turkish Ministry of Health. Before we start we ask you to cover food, utensils and aquariums; after fogging, the area is ventilated for the period we specify.

In commercial premises flying insect pressure moves with the season, so we recommend a monitoring-based programme rather than a single visit: trap counts, checks on the source points, and further treatment where it is needed.