Learning The Hard Way!

Gosh! I really do not think that any of us realised the amount of attention that would be given to what was, we believed, quite a light hearted blog about people’s reactions to being followed on Twitter by Rentokil.  What is staggering is that we have had more than three times the number of people [...]

Our Recent PR – A Clarification And An Apology

Some debate around a story doing the rounds over last couple of weeks, when our PR Agency released numbers calculated on a hypothetical worst case scenario, which were presented as “average” or “typical”.
I thought it might be helpful to explain how we arrived at the numbers and where things went so wrong.
We had tested our [...]

Why Is @Rentokil Following Me?

A line of marching ants, following one anotherSo on Twitter you get a message saying: “You are now being followed by Pest Control (Rentokil)”. The most common responses, so far, seem to be:

Why are Rentokil [...]

We Found The Nervy Rodent – There Was Only One!

Hot cereal for breakfast anyone?As you may recall know, I have been battling an extremely smart mouse in my house with the help of my excellent Technician Scott.  This rodent must know I work for Ehrlich because he/she [...]

Shooting Insects For Science

Meet David Spears, specialist cinematographer and science photographer, who provides inserts for science, technology and natural history programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and international broadcasters. We asked him a few questions about his fascinating job.
Ferns
Danusia: Start off by telling us a bit about yourself. What [...]