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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.


How Mild Winters Affect Pests

It’s January in the age of climate change and pests or pest control are not likely topics that people are discussing. But they should be. Partly because of what winter used to represent, and partly because winter, and it’s curious bedfellow - unseasonably warm winters - are simply throwing us curveballs week after week. Sometimes several times a week. Recent snowfall has disappeared barely leaving [...]

Rentokil op de Vakbeurs Facilitair

(Please scroll down for English translation) Rentokil Pest Control staat op 18, 19 en 20 januari 2012 op de Vakbeurs Facilitair. Deze belangrijke vakbeurs voor de Facilitaire wereld wordt in Den Bosch gehouden. Een fantastisch evenement waar vele facilitaire beslissers naar toe gaan. Rentokil Pest Control is op de beurs aanwezig, samen met Initial Hokatex [...]

Winter Gnats and Other Biting Insects

A friend recently commented that she had been bitten on the ankles by a mosquito. She thought she spotted a couple of mosquitoes dancing on her wheelie bin. Bearing in mind the frosty temperatures we’re currently experiencing I was a little dubious. A few minutes later I tuned into a radio programme discussing the different [...]

Integrated Pest Management and Apples

Integrated pest management is a term we use in the pest control industry to define a service standard that is both environmentally conscious and highly effective. My family consumes a lot of produce and I have to admit not once while eating an apple or an avocado have I considered the implications that IPM (Integrated Pest [...]

Protect Your Timbers

With regards to to preserving timbers, out of sight, out of mind is not a good ethos to follow.  Damp, rot and woodworm has caused many buildings to crumble  and deteriorate over the centuries. Before one of our founder’s  Harold Maxwell-Lefroy invented a woodworm treatment in the 1920′s there was no cure or future for [...]