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Flies, Maggots and Mould

Yesterday I opened my green bin and a cloud of small flies gushed out. Eager to be free of their plastic prison they swarmed past my shoulder and hovered at shoulder height. I peered inside the bin. On top of grass cuttings lay a galia melon, shrivelled and shrouded in a foam of white fluffy [...]

How to Swat a Fly

If a fly had a career it would be a racing car driver. The annoying pest can change course in as little as 30 thousandths of a second and nearly has a 360 degree field of vision, making swotting one close to becoming an Olympic sport. The lenses in house flies’ eyes have a fixed [...]

Prepare For The Rapture With A Luminos Fly Killer

It probably came as a surprise to you when you learnt last week that the world was going to end on May the 21st and that no one had thought to tell you any sooner. I only had two days warning, which is frankly not enough to prepare for Hell. But on Sunday the 22nd [...]

What Your Pest Control Technician Won't Tell You About Fly Killers

Or Six Fly Control Urban Myths We recently published an article in Pest magazine discussing an approach for standardising fly unit testing and invited the industry to join the debate. Interestingly, the results of our testing so far have revealed a number of urban myths about EFKs, which are important for customers to know about [...]

How Many Flies Are Too Many? Rentokil Fly Testing

The pests that we deal with are unwanted organisms that cause nuisance, damage or disease to humans, livestock or crops. It is interesting that in some cases we have a “zero tolerance” attitude to certain pests, whereas others are tolerated in low numbers. For example, the numbers that are generally acceptable for the following pests [...]