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bees

Halloween Super Heroes

Alicia for rentokil.ie | October 31, 2011
Happy Hallowe’en everyone! If you are out trick or treating tonight check out these darling little horrors for costume inspiration. Traditionally hallowe’en costumes have focused on the theme of witches, vampires, devils, ghosts, bats and spiders but more recently it seems like anything goes.  This tiny super hero will be sure to see off any baddie [...]

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 [...]

Do Bees Have Legal Protection In The UK?

Matt for rentokil.co.uk | July 1, 2011
Welcome to what I hope will be a series of irregularly timed posts examining the truth behind various well worn ‘facts’ relating to urban pests. So, if you have ever wondered how exactly a cockroach could ever survive a nuclear holocaust, how ‘dry rot’ can be a fungus and grow without water or how a [...]

Rabbits and Other Superstitious Stories

Alicia for jcehrlich.com | February 1, 2011
Superstition affects our daily lives, even if we don’t realise it. According to the Otis Elevator Company, more than 80% of the world’s skyscrapers are missing a 13th floor. Today #white rabbits was trending on Twitter. From a sailor’s terror of fleeing rats to lucky  ladybugs and money spiders, the animal and bug kingdom is [...]

Babies Dressed As Bugs (And Other Pests)

Alicia for rentokil.com | October 25, 2010
With Halloween upon us we thought we’d do a post on how to do costumes Rentokil-style. As we deal with a lot of gross things in our day-to-day lives, even here on the blog, we thought we’d go a bit cuter with this post. So here’s a selection of the cutest little rug rats, all dressed [...]