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Help Build A Map Of Wasp Activity

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | June 15, 2011
The spring has been unseasonably warm and dry which has encouraged wasps to emerge early from their overwintering places. The biggest wasp nests are often found in wood sheds or lofts because paper wasps can readily access building materials for their nest. Paper wasps, the most common species in the UK, ‘spit and scrape’ wood then [...]

Spring Clean to Banish Pests

Alicia for rentokil.co.uk | March 7, 2011
After months of gloomy skies the glorious weather this weekend served to remind that it was high time for a thorough spring clean. Bright sunshine shone through the windows to highlight tiny fingerprints and giant smears. It crept into dark corners illuminating unseen cobwebs and spotlit sunny shafts of particles, dancing and glittering like fairy [...]

Wasp’s Happening To Commuters?

Jackie for rentokil.co.uk | August 17, 2010
My usual bland journey to work on the train this week has been disrupted by commuting wasps! As we all moved from the crowded platform on to the London bound train the wasps seem to jump in just as the doors were closing. They then darted up and down the carriage from floral prints and brightly [...]

Exactly Which Pest Is Buzzing Around?

Jackie for rentokil.co.uk | July 15, 2010
The temptations of the brief  British summertime, with it’s lighter (and sometimes warmer) evenings, the rare opportunities for al fresco dining, picnics in the park or a refreshing drink in the pub beer garden, bring us all into the great outdoors, to be confronted by those summer pests… WASPS. No one likes the idea of [...]