No. Santera uses low-odour, targeted treatments applied precisely to harbourage and entry points, not sprayed across living areas, so there are no strong smells or staining. We focus on harbourage and moisture management for lasting results with minimal disruption.

Keep drains covered and maintained, fix leaks and damp, and ensure good ventilation, since centipedes and millipedes follow moisture through drains and gaps. Santera treats harbourage around drains and ground-floor areas and advises on sealing and moisture control to stop them surfacing indoors.

Heavy rain or irrigation floods their soil and mulch habitat, forcing millipedes to the surface and toward buildings in numbers. In Dubai this often follows watering of landscaping. Sealing ground-floor entry points and managing irrigation near walls — which Santera helps with — reduces these post-watering intrusions.

Millipedes mainly eat decaying plant matter, leaf litter, and organic debris rather than healthy living plants, so they're not a significant garden pest. The real issue is nuisance intrusions indoors. Reducing mulch and damp near the house, which Santera advises on, limits both their numbers and their entry.

Rarely — both prefer to lay eggs in damp soil and harbourage outdoors, which is why indoor sightings are usually individuals that wandered in seeking moisture or prey. Controlling the outdoor harbourage and sealing entry points is more effective than indoor treatment alone, and Santera covers both.

Often yes — centipedes are predators that hunt insects, so a centipede presence usually means there's prey indoors, such as cockroaches, silverfish, or other insects. Santera addresses both the centipedes and the underlying insect prey, since removing their food source is key to keeping them away.