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rats

The Rats Are Never Far Away

Guest for rentokil.co.uk | January 30, 2012
Statistics claim that in Britain you are never more than 20 feet away from a rat, one of Britain’s most successful mammals. This is a crude and rather misleading conclusion based on the UK rat population and the physical size of the country itself. However, there is a thread of truth in the assertion and [...]

How Mild Winters Affect Pests

Vladimir for jcehrlich.com | January 27, 2012
It’s January in the age of climate change and pests or pest control are not likely topics that people are discussing. But they should be. Partly because of what winter used to represent, and partly because winter, and it’s curious bedfellow - unseasonably warm winters - are simply throwing us curveballs week after week. Sometimes several times a week. Recent snowfall has disappeared barely leaving [...]

DIY vs. Hiring a Professional

Vladimir for jcehrlich.com | January 20, 2012
Choices for pest control are rarely considered when things are quiet and the absence of things that go bump in the night, or the telltale sign of spiders or other bugs are curiously absent from our lives. We’ve all been there. You see the first trail of ants and you get out the ant spray or [...]

How Clever Are Pests?

Alicia for rentokil.ie | January 18, 2012
A story by Science Alert caught my eye yesterday about an experiment to test how clever pigeons are. The article commented on new research from psychologists at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Damian Scarf, Harlene Hayne and Michael Colombo found that pigeons possess far greater numerical abilities than was previously thought, actually putting [...]

Top 10 Blogs of 2011

Alicia for rentokil.com | January 6, 2012
I would like to thank  everyone who has contributed to deBugged over the past year, and thanks also to everyone else who has tweeted, bookmarked the blog or posted articles to their Facebook pages. From big fat rats, harlequin invasions, to flying ants and monster sized queen wasps hiding in the folds of my curtains [...]