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Industry Insight for Pest Control Professionals

We are the Experts in Pest Control, so its only right that our experts can give you some industry insight into best practice as well as experience from the field, seminars we have presented at, report data, that kind of thing.

Hello National Pest Management Month

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | April 3, 2012
For more than 30 years, April is the month to recognise the magnificent work pest control technician’s across the globe carry out. Pests come in all shapes and sizes and hide in places high and low, but our pest control technicians, fondly known as pesties, aren’t afraid of heights or crawling into tiny spaces. They are [...]

Termites or Carpenter Ants?

Vladimir for jcehrlich.com | March 16, 2012
Carpenter Ants and termites are often times mistaken for one another this time of year. It just so happens that swarmers (winged reproductives released from the colony when the colony matures) from ant and termite colonies are triggered around the same time of year, commonly by the same conditions. Moisture and the warmth of the [...]

How To Avoid Getting Bed Bugs

Vladimir for jcehrlich.com | March 8, 2012
Bed bugs in the news and other media is as common as the weather or sports these days. It seems everyone is weighing in on this insect menace that was absent from our lives since the 1960′s. So much has been made of the sudden resurgence of bed bugs that it seems there is no [...]

How to Know if You Have Termites

Vladimir for jcehrlich.com | March 1, 2012
Termite season is upon us and soon homeowners and businesses throughout the country will see something that raises that fear we all have in the spring – do I have termites and do I need termite control? Termites, as it happens, are one of Mother Nature’s early hints that warm weather is close at hand. [...]

Toevallig binnendringer

Anneke for rentokil.nl | February 29, 2012
(Please scroll down for English translation) In de afgelopen weken hebben we meerdere meldingen ontvangen over het hiernaast afgebeelde diertje. Het gaat om de larven van de zachtharige mierkever, Opilo mollis. De larve is ongeveer 1 centimeter lang en krult op bij aanraking. Deze larven komen voor in rieten daken waar ze jagen op andere [...]