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Debugged – the lighter side of pest control

Its important not to take yourself to seriously in life, so the Debugged category (not deBugged – clever huh!) giggles at pest control, a little bit.

Foul Facts About Flies

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | May 15, 2012
Two-winged flies consitute the largest order of insects and there are about 50,000 known species throughout the world. Britain alone has 3000 species of flies. Such a small insect can have an enormous and detrimental impact on human life. The pathogenic organisms of diseases including malaria, sleeping sickness, onchocerciasis, elephantiasis and yellow fever are carried [...]

Textiles and Bugs

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | May 14, 2012
Whilst the pest control side of our business takes care of textile eating pests like moths our sister company, Initial Textiles, provides textile and hygiene services over 100,000 businesses across a diverse range of industries including manufacturing, medical, banking and hospitality. A customer’s first brand touchpoint is often via a uniform. A well laundered uniform gives a worker pride and [...]

Do you want flies with that?

Matt for rentokil.co.uk | May 11, 2012
ZZZZzzzzzzzt! It’s strangely reassuring, when queuing at a butcher’s or baker’s counter, to hear the noise of an insect meeting its doom on an ultra-violet light trap. It makes you feel safe in the knowledge that a fly isn’t going to land on the food you are about to buy. Would you feel the same [...]

National Windmills Weekend

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | May 9, 2012
On Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 May it’s National Windmills Weekend. Dozens of Flour Mills, Paper Mills, Woollen Mills and Silk Mills across the UK will open their doors to visitors.  You can see many of them working, enabling you to get a real sense of what it was like to work in a mill. In 1820 [...]

Insects Which Love Damp

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | May 2, 2012
It has been the wettest April since records began a century ago. The deluge may have stifled wasp activity but there are some insects which love damp conditions. The millipedes which were eating my carpet are back. They are a symptom of damp conditions and are probably thriving beneath the floorboards in the monsoon-like spring [...]