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I is for Insects

Finally the weather has warmed up and it feels like summer is here – did we skip spring? Time to throw open our windows and let the warm, fresh air into our homes along with some flying insects of course – am referring to the usual suspects of flies and wasps. Like many others, I [...]

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H Is For Holidays – But Not For Pests

Sipping tasty sangrias by the poolside. Reading the latest Dan Brown book on your sun lounger. Drinking your early morning cappuccino whilst people watching in the main piazza at the start of another blissfully baking hot sunny day. Whatever a holiday means to you, we all know we couldn’t do without it. And, if we [...]

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The Attack of the Harlequins

These unassuming looking lady beetles are anything but ladylike; they are known to present themselves amongst pollen, fruit and harvested grapes and may taint a wine vintage with a repulsive blend of peanut butter, decaying spinach, blue cheese and sawdust flavor. Yuk! These lady bugs were introduced as a biological pest control agent to control [...]

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Connect – muizenbestrijding 2.0

Een alarm voor inbrekende mensen is heel normaal, we kennen het allemaal. Een alarm voor de inbrekende muis is iets nieuws. Muizen kunnen bij veel bedrijven nog onopgemerkt binnendringen door een gat in de muur, of door een deur die op een kier staat. Stel je eens voor, een muis die zich direct verraadt zodra [...]

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Help! There’s A Hornet In My House

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 [...]

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Rodents on the rise: Don’t let them ruin your reputation.

It’s starting to get cold. Really cold. And that means my exposure to the outdoors is limited to the scurry between my front door and my car. We all turn to the indoors when it gets cold and we’re not the only ones: rats and mice do the same thing. In fact, since the end of summer we’ve seen an 18% rise nationally in the number of commercial call outs we’ve had for rodents.

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Nature’s own Assassin

Carefully concealing itself, whilst watching and waiting for its next victim, is the Assassin bug. This bug is the hit man of the insect world, striking fear into the heart of every other living insect it comes across. It is known to attack quickly, paralyzing its prey, and then taking it out mercilessly! This creature [...]

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G is for Good Golly Miss Molly

Good golly!! Garden ants are on the march in Ireland. Sorry if the title misled you. Sadly, this isn’t a post about the great tune by Little Richard – the lyrics of which (having just researched) are not really about anything, but let’s not let that detract from the great song….but moving on. It appears [...]

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Gefeliciteerd, ook jij hebt tapijtkevers

Van de week trof ik drie hele kleine torretjes aan in mijn vensterbank. Het was dat ik mijn orchidee goed aan het bekijken was, dat ik ze zag. Mijn eerste gedachte was: “Snel een op papiertje en naar buiten met die beestjes!” Gelukkig had ik geen papiertje bij de hand dus mijn rationele gedachte kreeg [...]

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The Office Mice

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 [...]

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