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Pest Control UK
Pest Control News 2007
Sting in the Tail
The picnic gatecrashers are back with a vengeance. Drunk, irritable and ready to cause trouble, they are amassing in greater numbers and heading for a jam sandwich near you. A warmer winter and spring coupled with a wet summer has reduced the natural...
Bed Bug Epidemic
An epidemic of bed bugs is sweeping the nation, fuelled by air travel and warmer summers leading to the number of infestations soaring by 500 per cent in the last two years. Cities such as Cambridge and Peterborough have taken the brunt of the epidem...
Time To Go On The Defensive
The alarm rings. You rise in the dark. You stumble into the kitchen. You flip on the light. AAAACK!!! No, not a burglar. This instant heart failure has been brought to you by a creature no bigger than a nectarine stone. Autumn is prime time for mouse...
The Perils of Building Management
No matter how clean, well-managed or amenity-rich a building is, insect and rodent sightings are guaranteed to put tenants on the warpath, therefore making proactive pest control a component of your building management plan is the key to avoiding thi...
Sticky Sticky Sticky
Use of glue boards to trap stinging insects is really catching on at homes and sensitive accounts such as schools and churches. For most insect accounts, the best time to treat is in the evening, when most of the colony have finished their daily fora...
Ants Are Enemy Pest Number One
They paraded into the pantry, inundated the bathroom and marched their way under the covers and into bed. The six-legged pests even turned up frozen in the middle of ice cubes. Attacking everything, ants can very nearly take over your home and your l...
Wasp Alert
Higher temperatures after so much rain have resulted in an explosion in the number of wasps. With nests up to four times bigger than normal, experts are warning that sunbathing and picnicking Britons should be on the alert for one of the worst plague...
Bug Free Barbeques
When the sun is shining and the drinks are cold, you know it's time to heat up the barbeque, however when pests gatecrash the party, the seasonal fun can be spoiled. Ants, flies and stinging insects are prevalent in the late summer and early autumn a...
Attack of the Home Wreckers
"Home, sweet home" can have an entirely new meaning when used in connection with pests. Rats, cockroaches and other pests can treat your house as a veritable food source, reducing it to a shell right under your feet....
How To Choose A Safe Pest Control Firm
First of all, you want a pest control firm that has been in business for a while - pick your own standard. In addition, you should probably make sure that he / she belongs to a pest control association such as the British Pest Control Association, an...
Plague of Mice Spreading
Warmer winters, the prevalence of rubbish on the streets and homeowners renovating their houses are all causing mice numbers to escalate at an alarming rate. New figures have revealed that homes and businesses with mice problems increased by eight pe...
Pest-Free Schooling
Which would you prefer. A school free of the many insect and rodent pests that can spread disease or one in which fears of pesticides exceed having a safe learning environment? Every year, parents hear or read stories involving the application of pes...
Crawling Bed Bugs
Bed bugs were largely wiped out by DDT after World War II, but for whatever reason - resistance to pesticides, changes in people's travel habits - their numbers are increasing at an alarming rate. As to their spread, bed bugs are great hitchhikers an...
Welcome Summer, Unwelcome Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes top the list of summer pest concerns according to recent research. Although mosquitoes will inevitably continue to put a stinger into summer fun this year, there are a number of solutions available to homeowners, helping you to keep these ...
The Enemy In The Closet
Most moths are harmless to humans, but step inside the boudoirs and it's a different story. Our wardrobes are under siege from clothes-eating moths - or, to be more precise, their larvae. Global warming has seen a surge in moth numbers, but improved ...
Pest Control Can Be A Hoot
Under the cover of darkness, a shadow silently swoops down from the trees and across a field. Rabbits don't have a chance, mice might as well be fish in a barrel. Meet the latest wave in pest control. It's called Tyto alba - otherwise known as the ba...
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 pro...
Stinging Insects
People are often amazed to learn just how many species of stinging insects there are - and summer is the time many have a painful introduction to one or more of them. There are fleas, flies, lice, mosquitoes, ticks, wasps, and bees, to name just a fe...
How To Deal With Bed Bugs
For insects that can't hop or fly, bed bugs do have an amazing ability to get around. This is proved by the fact that bed bug infestations are on the rise in North America, Western Europe, and Australia. The National Pest Technicians Association (NPT...
No Fleas Please
Fleas are a more difficult opponent to eradicate than most other household pests. But by using an integrated pest management approach that includes you, the homeowner, as part of the overall, long-term solution, fleas can be effectively controlled an...