Licensing in South Australia. None of our other pest control pages covers SA, so here is the short version. Pest control sits under the Controlled Substances Act 1984 and the Controlled Substances (Pesticides) Regulations 2017 (opens in a new tab), and Controlled Substances Licensing (CSL) in SA Health is the only body that issues the licences. A Pest Controller's licence is granted to a business that holds, or employs someone who holds, a full technician's licence for the kind of work it offers, and it runs for one or three years. According to sa.gov.au (opens in a new tab), a limited licence lasts one year, can be renewed once, and its holder must finish their training within two years and can't give advice on pesticides. The controller keeps a record of every application, covering the date, place, product, quantity, technician, how close other people were and, outdoors, the weather, plus the area treated and the supplier for termiticide laid before or during construction, and holds those records for seven years.
Interstate technicians and complaints. South Australia joined automatic mutual recognition (opens in a new tab) for pest licences on 1 February 2022. A technician whose home is in New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, the Northern Territory, Tasmania or Western Australia can work here after registering with CSL before starting Their registration expires with their home licence, and their scope here is generally limited to what that licence covers. Queensland hasn't joined the scheme, so a Queensland licence isn't recognised this way. SA Health's consumer page (opens in a new tab) sends licensing complaints to CSL and consumer disputes to Consumer and Business Services, and says it doesn't help with compensation claims.
Termites, from the plains to the Hills. The SA Government (opens in a new tab) says buildings in the state are susceptible to termites, that the Building Code of Australia decides when a new building needs a management system, and that owners who suspect activity should get a pest controller to inspect. That makes pre-construction barriers a job worth its own page if builders send you work. Up the freeway, Adelaide Hills Council (opens in a new tab) doesn't treat termites on private property and doesn't remove termite mounds, because heath goannas lay their eggs in them; the council notes it is listed as vulnerable in South Australia and critically endangered in the Mount Lofty Ranges. A Hills termite page can say plainly what you do about a mound in a paddock compared with activity in a house frame.
Wasps depend on the council. Councils around Adelaide treat European wasps differently, and residents often ring a pest business before checking. The City of Marion (opens in a new tab) describes a 2025–26 trial of free European wasp nest removal from residential properties through its contractor, where the nest is reasonably accessible; commercial and industrial premises aren't covered, and other wasps aren't either. Adelaide Hills Council only removes nests on its own land and refers residents to a pest control company. If your suburb pages are grouped by council, each can carry one line on what that council does, which you can update each spring with a quick email to us.
Where you work, and how we work with you. Metropolitan Adelaide is split across many councils, from Playford and Gawler in the north to Onkaparinga in the south, with the Hills to the east, but callers search by suburb, so we list yours under the areas locals use. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St. Most projects run by phone and email, Adelaide ones included, which suits a technician who spends the day in roof spaces and subfloors; if you'd rather meet before we start, that can be arranged. We haven't built a site for a pest controller yet, and we say so in the examples below.