23 Sep 2019

Expert feature: blood-sucking insects and creepy-crawlies

From Afternoons, 2:23 pm on 23 September 2019

It's getting warmer out there ... which means there could soon be an influx of white-tail spiders in your home, bed-bugs in your bedroom, fleas on your pets, and mosquitoes and sandflies pretty much everywhere else.

Phil Sirvid is an entomologist at Te Papa and joins us to talk about how to ward off mosquitoes, how to treat head-lice, what to do if you're bitten by a white-tail, and much more besides.

Mosquito

Mosquito Photo: RNZ