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Frequently Asked Questions
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Pest control helps protect New Zealand’s biodiversity and environment, keeps our food safe, and protects us from biosecurity threats.
The introduction of predating and browsing animals has led to many extinctions and continues to threaten our remaining fauna and flora. Introduced animals also compete with native species for territory, reducing their available habitat.
We need to control introduced animals to preserve our native birds, bats, lizards, frogs, insects, freshwater fish and plants.
The following is a small list of pests introduced to New Zealand by early Māori and Pacific navigators, including early European settlers.
Possums: Introduced from Australia in order to establish a fur industry in New Zealand. They destroy forests and eat bird eggs and nestlings.
Rats and mice: Polynesians and early explorers introduced brown rats, black rats, or kiore as they are known in Māori. In some parts of New Zealand, they have wiped out one type of native bat, native frogs, and tuatara.
Mustelids: Including weasels, stoats, and ferrets, were introduced to New Zealand for their fur and to control rabbits. They contribute to the extinction of huia, bush wrens, native thrushes, and quails.
Wild Cats: Wild Cats were introduced into New Zealand to control rabbit populations, but they quickly joined rats and stoats as predators. They feed on local birds, insects, and lizards.
Deer: Introduced into New Zealand to provide game and venison to hunters, deer quickly began to harm forest plants, trees, and seedlings. Deer in New Zealand include the Sika, Red deer, and Rusa.
Pigs: Introduced in the late 1700s, pigs use their noses to dig for food (rooting), uprooting the ground surface as well as any plants and vegetation, harming the forest ecosystem on which many animals rely for food.
• Possums.
• Rats.
• Stoats.
• Himalayan Tahr.
• Feral Cats.
• Deer.
• Feral Goats.
• Ferrets.
• Hedgehogs.
• Kaimanawa Horses.
• Kawau Island Wallabies.
• Plague Stinks.
• Rabbits.
• Rainbow Lorikeet.
• Weasels.
We specialise in exterminating the following pests:
* Possums
* Rabbits
* Hares
* Feral Goats
* Feral Pigs
* Feral Pigeons
* Feral Cats
* Hind Deer
* Wallabies
* Hogs
* Magpies
We Do Not Exterminate The Following Pests:
* Ants
* Termites
* Spiders
* Rats & Mice
* Cockroaches
* All Other Insects
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