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Sentricon Always Active As a family owned business, we understand that you are looking to protect not only your family but also your biggest financial investment, your home. We have all heard and seen the horror stories about how much damage termites can inflict on an unprotected building. With the day to day stresses, sometimes…

As the temperature plummets, we naturally turn up the heat in our homes to escape the cold. Is it any wonder that some of our four legged friends also want to take advantage of our incessant need to stay warm and dry this winter, so they too decide to move into your roof voids and…

As our cities and towns ever increasingly expand to cope with growth in our population, we are gradually encroaching further on our natural environment. This encroachment is diminishing suitable nest sites for our indigenous and non-indigenous bird life, forcing them to seek out alternative breeding sites. In most cases this will be the newly built…

As the name suggests, the Black Portuguese Millipede is a native of Portugal. It has been introduced from Portugal to several Atlantic islands as well as to South Africa and Australia. We don’t know how the millipede was introduced to Australia, but it first appeared in Port Lincoln, South Australia, in 1953, and has since…

We’ve all been there, sitting with family and friends, enjoying a nice relaxing afternoon BBQ only to have it interrupted by annoying European Wasps that seem to come out of nowhere. Soon enough more wasps from the colony join in and what was to be a nice enjoyable BBQ, soon turns into pandemonium with everybody…

It’s hard not to get caught up in the moment when you find your dream home. You’ve already moved in and can imagine the family BBQ’s, the parties with friends and after watching one to many series of The Block you’re already making plans to renovate this room or that, but it is at this…

There’s no escaping that we live in a harsh environment from the searing heat waves through to the sustained periods of droughts followed by severe flooding. It’s is due to these extreme and quick shifts in our climate that has had a remarkable impact on the evolution of our indigenous and successful non-indigenous fauna making…

Fleas are amazingly resourceful little insects, not only do they have the agility of a seasoned athlete, but in their pupal stages, they also possess the ability to slow and almost halt their growth and development if no food is present. In this dormant state they lay in wait until an unsuspecting victim triggers them…

Forget Twilight and The Vampire Dairies, Bed bugs are the true vampires living amongst us. This prehistoric little bug, about the size of an apple pip has been cohabiting and feeding on man since caveman days and has over time evolved a strategy of “hibernation” for surviving a periodically absent and nomadic host. Once bed…

All the year’s hard work has been in preparation for this day, the colony is a hive of activity and everybody joins in the procession, as the young royal family, the “Alates”, the future kings and queens make their way through the colony to undertake the colonising flight. Each year this ritual plays out simultaneously…