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Creature In My Christmas Tree

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | December 12, 2011
Further to Danusia’s Real Tree or Fake Tree blog I have always preferred a true tree though a coniferous caper last year almost swayed my decision towards purchasing faux pine this year. Last year I ordered a tree from the internet. I selected Scots Pine for its heady pine fragrance, pretty cones and all-round good Christmas [...]

Spiders Rats and Bats Have Their Day

Vladimir for jcehrlich.com | October 27, 2011
Halloween is just a couple of days away and nowhere is it more evident than the bats, spiders, rats and black cats visible on almost every porch, inside every window and on almost every lawn in neighborhoods everywhere.   Something spooky this way comes. I get a good belly laugh seeing the lengths people go [...]

A Distinct Lack Of Bugs On Holiday

Danusia for rentokil.co.uk | September 14, 2011
Day one back at work after a summer holiday is always tough. Your tan fades as you exit the aeroplane and as you sit at your desk the longed for annual summer holiday seems a million miles away. As other blogs have shown, you can never escape pest control, even when you’re on holiday… Ahh, what [...]

Spiders and Hornets Are the Most Feared UK Pest

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | September 7, 2011
It seems that I am not alone in my fear of spiders. In a survey of 2,000 Britons by HomeServe, the home emergency experts, respondents were asked to rank their fear response to several common household pests out of 10, and the answers were used to calculate the fear index – a definitive table of the creepiest crawlies. [...]

Spiders Travel By Banana

Alicia for rentokil.ie | August 30, 2011
Further to my recent post about how spider’s scare the bejesus out of me I was not overjoyed to learn that Brazilian Wandering Spiders have been discovered in the UK, having hitched a lift in a bunch of banana’s from their native South America. I would like to think that all bananas leaving tropical climates [...]