Rats, ants and wasps by the inlet at Māpua
Family homes, baches and the wharf businesses on the Waimea Inlet. Richard finds where the rats, ants and wasps are getting in, treats them there, and checks in afterwards.
If Richard’s on a job when you ring, your call is still answered and he calls you back.
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- Treats
- Rats and mice, wasps, borer, ants, spiders, flies, cockroaches and fleas
- Where
- Motueka, Riwaka, the Moutere, Māpua and Ruby Bay
- Experience
- More than 15 years in the trade
- Quotes
- Free inspection and quote
- You call or send the formA photo of what you’re seeing helps
- Richard rings youTo go over it and book a time
- Free inspection and quoteAt your place, before any work starts
- Treatment, then a check-inHe makes sure it’s worked
What’s about this month?
This month is lit on the strip. Where a pest keeps a season, its band shows the months it’s most about.
This monthBusiestIn season
Tell Richard what you’re seeingRats or mice
Busiest June to August.
Winter is the commonest time for rats and mice to get into the house.
Ants
Busiest September to February.
Spring and summer are when ants like the Argentine ant go looking for sweet and protein foods.
Wasps
In season September to May; busiest February to May.
Queens start new nests in spring. Nests grow all summer and are busiest in late summer and autumn, raising next year’s queens.
What Richard treats in Māpua
Much of Māpua is newer housing on the estuary edge, and the work here is rats and mice coming in for the winter, ant trails across the bench in spring and summer, and wasp nests in the banks and eaves.
Baches and holiday homes get the same care: give us the dates it’s empty, and Richard works out a time and a way in with you. The cafés, shops and galleries at the wharf can have a plan set up for their site.
Newer houses get rats too. They come in through gaps around pipes, vents and garage doors and nest in the roof space and the insulation, so Richard finds the way in as well as treating them.
How a job runs in Māpua
Tell us what you’re seeing
Ring, or fill in the form and add a photo if you have one. Richard gets back to you, goes over it and books a time.
The free inspection
Richard visits and goes through the roof space, the subfloor and the outbuildings, finding where they’re living and how they’re getting in.
Quote, then treatment
You get a quote before anything’s done. Once you’re happy, Richard and the team treat it, working around your household, pets included.
The check-in
After the job, Richard checks in with you to make sure it’s worked.
… did my yard for ants. He came highly recommended from my neighbour … Best part - NO Ants!
Māpua, on the Waimea Inlet
Māpua sits on the Tasman Bay coast at the western entrance to the Waimea Inlet, the largest estuary in the South Island. Across the channel, Rabbit Island has been planted in pines since 1921, and a ferry from the wharf links it to the Great Taste Trail.
Apples once went out from the small wharf. The wharf area is now a tourist centre, with restaurants, shops and galleries in the old cool store and warehouses, and the Māpua Leisure Park campground is here too.
Food on the wharf, bins at the campground and homes on the water’s edge give rats, ants and wasps plenty to come for, and that’s where Richard looks first.
Tips and questions for Māpua
- Ants come in for sweet food: keep the bench wiped down and the honey and sugar sealed.
- Before you shut the bach up, take the food home and close the gaps where pipes and cables come in.
- Check under the eaves and along sunny banks in late summer for wasps using one spot.
Māpua questions
Can you treat a Māpua bach while we’re away?
Yes. Tell us when it’s empty, and Richard will sort out a time and access with you.
Do you look after businesses at the wharf?
Yes. Richard sets up a plan for cafés, restaurants, shops and galleries after a free site inspection.
Do you treat ants outside as well as in?
Yes. Richard follows the trail back outside and treats where they’re nesting and coming in.
Richard also covers Motueka, Ruby Bay and Upper Moutere. All towns we cover
Get a free quote in Māpua
Tell Richard what you’re seeing and where. Photos help.
What to send Richard
- A photo, if you can get one: droppings, a nest, holes in timber or an ant trail
- Where they are: inside, up in the ceiling, under the floorboards, in the shed or out in the orchard
- When you first noticed them
- Who’s home, or when the bach is empty
- For borer, the year the house went up, if you know it
Richard gets back to you to go over it, then visits to inspect and quote, free of charge.
Thanks, we’ve got your details.
Richard will get back to you to go over it and book a visit.