What have you seen?
A person in a cap and work shirt standing on a lawn, spraying along the base of a weatherboard house wall

Pest control across New Zealand

Pest control, matched to what you've seen.

Tap the pest, one detail and your postcode. A local pest business that handles exactly that calls you.

What have you seen?

Tap the closest match. Not sure what it is? Start with the signs.

Step 1 of 4
What have you seen?
Where is the nest?

Keep children and pets away, and don't disturb the nest. If someone stung has trouble breathing, or swelling of the face or throat, call 111.

What are the bees doing?

Don't spray them, and keep people and pets away. If someone stung has trouble breathing, call 111.

Where are they?

Child swallowed rat bait? Call the National Poisons Centre on 0800 764 766, any time. For a pet, call your vet now.

Where is it?

Small round holes with fine dust below them are the usual sign.

Which kind?
What type of property is it?
Is this for the end of a tenancy?
What type of property is it?
Which one is it?
What have you noticed?

Seen something like termites, or mud packed into timber? Don't disturb them. Report it to MPI.

So the job goes to a pest business that works near you.
So the pest business can call you about this job. Only one local pest business gets your number.

Which Pest holds your details. Our privacy policy explains how we use them.

Only one local pest business gets your number.

  • Matched to what you've seen
  • Only one local pest business gets your number.

  • Matched to what you've seen

    Before a pest business can take jobs from Which Pest, we record the work it handles, so a borer job never lands with a business that only does wasps.

  • Only one local pest business gets your number.

    We share your contact details with one local pest business so it can get in touch about this job.

Pest services

Pest control services

Pick the job you need, or start with what you've seen.

Flea treatmentWhy the pets come first, what a house treatment involves, and why fleas bite in an empty home.Read itBed bug treatmentHow to confirm bed bugs, what to wash tonight, and what a control programme usually involves.Read itRodent controlShip rat, Norway rat or mouse, why winter brings them indoors, and what a bait programme involves.Read itCockroach controlGerman or American, one visitor or a real problem, and what a cockroach treatment involves.Read itWasp nest removalWhat to do first, which wasp you've got, and who deals with a nest on your land.Read itBorer treatmentHow to read the holes and dust, what a treatment involves, and when timber has to be replaced.Read itSpider controlWhich spiders matter here, when a treatment earns its keep, and what to ask before anyone starts.Read itPossum controlHow to tell it's a possum, how they get into a roof, and what to ask a pest business.Read it

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Tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and a local pest business that handles exactly that calls you to talk it through.

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How it works

How Which Pest works

We're a referral service. We don't do pest work, and we never send your details to a list of businesses.

How it works, in full
  1. No. 1

    Tell us what you've seen

    Tap the pest (or the signs, if you're not sure), one detail about it, and your postcode. Then your first name and mobile.

  2. No. 2

    We pass it on

    We pass your enquiry to one local pest business that handles exactly this. They quote, do the work and deal with you directly.

  3. No. 3

    They call you

    The pest business talks it through, usually inspects first, and quotes in writing. You decide from there.

Near you

Find your city

Tell us what you've seen anywhere in New Zealand. We look for a local pest business near your postcode that handles exactly that.

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A bay villa with a return veranda behind a white picket fence in Auckland
A bay villa with a return veranda behind a white picket fence in Auckland.

Guides

Good to know before anyone calls

Field guide, wasps

Wasp or bee?

A wasp nest is a job for a pest business. A swarm of honey bees usually isn't. Here's how to tell them apart.

Wasp: smooth, bright black and yellow
Honey bee: hairy, golden brown
 Wasps, in the field guide Renting

Fleas at the end of a tenancy

Who usually pays when a pet brings fleas, and what to sort out before you move.

Read the guide Bees

A swarm on the fence

Why a resting swarm is usually a beekeeper's job, and when bees in the house are a job for us to pass on.

Read the guide Report it

Termites in New Zealand

Rare here, and reported to MPI rather than treated. What to look for and who to call.

Read the guide Before you book

Choosing a pest controller

The qualification, the insurance and the product: the questions that sort the careful from the quick.

Read the guide

Questions

Questions people ask first

Are you pest controllers?

No. Which Pest is a referral service. We pass what you've seen to one local pest business, and they quote, do the work and deal with you directly.

How many businesses get my details?

Only one local pest business gets your number.

I don't know what it is. Can I still ask?

Yes. Tap "Not sure what it is" and tell us what you've noticed: noises at night, droppings, bites, small holes in timber or a nest. It goes to a pest business as an inspection to find out.

There's a wasp nest near the back door. What do I do?

Keep children and pets away and don't disturb the nest. If someone stung has trouble breathing, or swelling of the face or throat, call 111. Then tap "A wasp nest": we flag it as urgent for the pest business.

A swarm of bees landed on our fence. Who do I call?

Usually a local beekeeper, not a pest business: a resting swarm is often collected, and it may move on by itself. Don't spray it. If bees are going in and out of a gap in the house, that one is a job, so tap "Bees". Bee swarms.

What about kids and pets during a treatment?

Tell the pest business about children, pets, pregnancy, allergies, fish tanks and veggie gardens before they start. Ask for the full product name and its safety data sheet, and how long before everyone can go back in. Before and after a treatment.

Do you handle termites?

Termites aren't a regular pest in New Zealand, and the destructive Australian kind is reported to MPI, not treated by a pest business. If you think you've seen termites or mud packed into timber, don't disturb them and call MPI. Termites in New Zealand.

Where can I use Which Pest?

Anywhere in New Zealand. Tell us your postcode with what you've seen, and we look for a local pest business near you that handles exactly that. Find your city.

Not sure what it is? Start with the signs.

Noises at night, droppings, bites, small holes in timber, a nest. Tell us what you've noticed and a local pest business works out the rest.

Start with the signs
What have you seen?