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Pest Travel Guide Or How To Spice Up Your Holiday Stories

BenH for rentokil.in | October 22, 2009
Everybody travels to beautiful locations these days. Everybody has beautiful photographs of his/her trip. Everybody has beautiful stories to tell. Yes, I agree on that. However, I have noticed that stories of having seen a certain place of touristic value will not really draw your listeners from the woodwork. BUT as soon as you start telling [...]

Do Pests Go On Vacation

Lynn for jcehrlich.com | October 19, 2009
There’s something about a peaceful lakeside vacation that makes you a bit more reflective about the mundane.  Every day me and my colleagues think about pests in some form or another as part of our jobs – pests in homes, bedbugs in hotels, stinging insects at a picnic, the list goes on and on.  But as [...]

We Have A BedBug Sniffer Dog

Lynn for jcehrlich.com | September 24, 2009
Using dogs to sniff out bedbugs is not new, but it is new to J. C. Ehrlich. The newest four legged employee, Roxy, is a German Shepherd puppy who was saved by a Sales Rep from an animal shelter and who now goes hunting down bedbugs on work days. On rest days she stays in the [...]

Top 10 Pest Urban Myths – Busted!

Danusia for rentokil.com | April 29, 2009
The top ten list of Unbelieveable truths surprised a few people judging by the comments we got, so here we go again but this time with our top ten list of pest urban myths! 10. Bees can only sting once: Bees do die after they sting humans, but that’s only because their sting is barbed and gets [...]

International bed bugs week – South Africa – Cape Town 2

Pete for rentokil.com | April 8, 2009
Well hello, good morning, and welcome to what will be my final posting of this tour. Just when you thought things could not get better…they did with a day that certainly matched if not surpassed our best effort in Europe. Prof Mike Potter was kept busy from about 7 – 10am with a series of [...]