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Help! There’s A Hornet In My House

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | May 24, 2013
Due to a prolonged winter and wet spring wasp sightings have been few and far between. This has not been the case in my house (which should be designated an area of special scientific interest). I’ve had to eject a number of queen wasps which have overwintered in the eaves and sleepily dropped down onto [...]

The Office Mice

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | May 16, 2013
Mice are present in numbers in every town or city, and will readily explore new areas. This will include office premises where even the smallest amount of food is enough to sustain a small infestation. The false floors, ceiling and ducting in a modern office provide mice with the means to explore and the space [...]

Ant nests – An incessant blight of green keepers’ lives

Guest for rentokil.co.uk | May 1, 2013
If you’ve ever woken up to find your freshly mown lawn sprinkled with unattractive ant nests speckled across the grass, it’s safe to say that you’d be more than a little peeved. In fact the word ‘exasperated’ immediately springs to mind. With the first sign of spring beginning to emerge, albeit very slowly, gardens and [...]

England is the Wasp Capital of the UK

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | April 23, 2013
Happy St George’s Day! I heard an interesting fact on the radio on the way into work this morning. Over 80% of the population of the UK lives in England. And where there are large concentrations of people, the pests are never far behind. Take a look at our wasp map here which illustrates a [...]

C is for Cimex lectularius

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | April 22, 2013
In other words, the common bed bug! Impressed about how I managed to use another letter to talk about bed bugs? Don’t answer that! Anyway, I had to do it because I heard an interesting tale at my hairdressers last Friday. The customer in the seat next to me was very chatty. Apparently she had [...]