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Olive Groves, Fig Trees and Bug Bites!

Brigitta for jcehrlich.com | September 26, 2011
A week away at a villa spent lounging under clear blue skies and burning hot sunshine next to a pool never seems to be enough. Ten days would have been ideal! This is how I felt on our last day in our uniquely Puglian trulli located on the outskirts of Alberobello. In this part of [...]

Create An Ant Trap

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | August 22, 2011
If you’ve ever suffered an ant invasion it’s most likely that ants have found a food source. When an ant finds something tasty in your home, such as that bag of sugar that split over the counter, it will lay a pheromone (scent) trail back to the nest. This allows the fellow worker ants to [...]

How To Get Rid Of Wasps And Ants

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | August 5, 2011
We recently ran a Q&A session on stinging and biting insects with leading parenting website, Mumsnet. The top two pests on every’s minds were ants and wasps. Because of the early warm spring wasp activity started sooner than usual, which means that by now nests have been getting large and bothersome for some people.

Wasps v Bees and Ants

Alicia for jcehrlich.com | July 29, 2011
Every summer US homeowners and businesses fight a battle against yellow-jackets and ants nesting on their property. Although humans are well equipped to win the battle of the wasps and ants, the war is fought on many fronts and the insect community must provide its own defences. A honey-bee colony can be decimated by an [...]

Sky’s The Limit for Ants in Ireland

Brigitta for rentokil.ie | July 19, 2011
Recent news seems to suggest that there is a booming ant population in Ireland this year. With the news that Ireland is facing the largest ant population in 10 years, it appears that ants are converging en masse on Ireland. And it is not just common black garden ants but the number of red ants [...]