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Pest Control UK provides regular news stories written by experts in pest control. Our articles cover a wide range of pests, and focus on the problems that these pests cause and what you can do about them. Submitted throughout the year, this information resource changes with the seasons, enabling you to find solutions to your problems quickly and easily.

The Eco-Friendly Garden
Kermit the Frog is fond of saying "It's not easy being green", but thanks to concerned companies and people all over the world, going green has risen from obscurity to the mainstream in recent years. Gardeners and weekend warriors, along with the pr...

Insects Wrongly Branded As Pests
Of all the insects found in and around your home, only around 5 percent should be considered as pests. The rest are actually quite useful to us, providing an important service in pollinating our plants and flowers. Pollen must be spread from one flo...

A Working Life: The Falconer
Emu, a very handsome nine-year-old male harris hawk, is sitting on the roof of a flatbed truck in Eaton Square, London. Although the driver can't often have seen a bird of prey sitting on his truck, he is not at all amused. In fact he is glaring at t...

Bed Bug Encasements
Bed bugs are proving to be one of the most challenging bugs pest management professionals have ever faced. The resiliency of this insect is nothing short of amazing. In addition to being capable of withstanding weeks of freezing temperatures and the...

Market Report Reveals Growth
Apex Insight, a new research company based in London, has published research on the UK pest control industry. This quantifies the market size and historical patterns of growth, probes key trends behind the figures, profiles and explores the performan...

Battle Those Pests
It's important to get rid of certain insects and animals because they're destructive to our homes and landscaping. With that in mind, this article offers an insight into how to track down your pests and get rid of them. Bed Bugs According to many s...

DIY Rabbit Repellent
A small group of rabbits can easily ruin your garden in a short space of time. So what to do? Well you have a few choices. You can call in a hunter, hire an exterminator or take action yourself. Although rabbits may be stubborn creatures, they can be...

Super Rats
The scale of the problem of rat infestations in towns and cities across the UK is continuing to grow, and one of the prime reasons for this increase is down to the way that Britons are disposing of their rubbish, which is the prime food source for th...

Feeling A Little Antsy?
Springtime is when ants always seem to appear in large numbers anyway, but if homeowners are seeing a few more six-legged guests than usual, take comfort: you're not alone. Just about anywhere that's been getting heavier-than-usual rainfall has been ...

Nature's Pest Control
There's an epic battle going on in garden's across the UK and Ireland. Ants are herding aphids on a weakend hibiscus, but a swarm of ladybirds have been unleashed who are now crawling over the leaves munching hungrily on the little white pests as the...

Help To Control Fleas
Fleas can create a full-blown infestation of your home and jeopardise the health of your loved ones without warning, but homeowners can arm themselves with the right information to better treat, control, and eradicate fleas. Homeowners are urged to ...

Booming Vermin Populations
In many areas around the country, the council has cut back its pest control services to divert resources to "priority" causes, most notably recycling. Rubbish is collected every week but unfortunately in areas such as London, overflowing bins are a c...

What is Integrated Pest Management?
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a program of prevention, monitoring, and control which offers the opportunity to eliminate or drastically reduce the use of pesticides, and to minimise the toxicity of and exposure to any products which are used. ...

Romantic Insects
Some of the mating rituals of pests can put your first date to shame. Male insects offer gifts, song and even dance to impress the female. But remember, this is not Love Story - this is Fatal Attraction, which can cause many headaches for homeowners....

BASC Scheme Helps Out Farmers
Farmers in Northern Ireland are being urged to take advantage of a pest control scheme launched by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU). BASC and the UFU joined forces to put farmers who ar...

Suddenstrike Win Major Contract
A Nantwich family business is taking to the road in a fleet of new vehicles while celebrating a major contract with DEFRA. Pest control specialist Suddenstrike has invested more than £100,000 in wagons and digging machinery as part of a rebranding e...

Spiders Check Weather
Spiders love to fly. Hundreds can touch down in an acre of land on a day when conditions are right. But before casting out a silk thread and swooping miles through the air, a spider checks the weather just as a human pilot might do during a pre-fligh...

Controlling Periodomestic Cockroaches
Peridomestic cockroaches include all of our common large cockroaches such as the American cockroach, but also some smaller species, such as the Asian cockroach. When you find peridomestic cockroaches indoors, they usually came from outdoors. If the ...

Speciality Pesticides
Speciality pesticides are pest management tools used in and around homes, businesses and public areas as well as on lawns, flowers and trees. They're used in commercial greenhouses and nurseries, factories and offices, parks and gardens, to control ...

Bed Bugs Make A Comeback
The incidence of calls regarding bed bug infestations has risen over the last year. Calls are being received from five-star city hotels to council estates, all in dire need of a bed bug exterminator. The problem faced by pest control companies attem...

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