Summer time is one of my favourite seasons, the longer days, the warm weather, and not to mention the start of festival season. Unfortunately, there is one insect which just loves to ruin my days spent enjoying this amazing...
In England, we’ve had a bit of a heat wave recently. Although it has been amazing enjoying the nice weather, for once, there has been one thing that has been a proper buzz kill (pardon the pun)… Mosquitoes! For...
If there’s one thing that could probably pose as the ultimate nightmare for hotel businesses, it’s to receive complaints from their customers about a pest sighting, such as a mice infestation. Imagine if a disgruntled hotel guest were to...
Flies are a major risk to food safety for any business handling food, such as hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and warehouses, due to the number of diseases that they carry. Business premises can provide many opportunities for flies to feed,...
Food product recalls are a major threat to food companies. They result in disruption in operations while managing the recall, direct cost of recalling stock and the associated activities and the indirect costs caused by the knock-on effects, mainly...
Scientists are generally unified by having had a strong dose of the education system. Indeed some never leave it. Whilst many biologists enter education with dreams of tracking wolves, swimming with dolphins or rushing through fields with butterfly nets,...
Hotels are adopting technology to improve the customer experience, stand out from the competition and improve efficiency in hotel operations. This includes technology-enabled systems such as automated check-in and check-out, keyless and card-less access, energy management, online access and...
How many times have you forgotten your re-usable shopping bag when visiting the supermarket; or don’t have one because you didn’t mean to buy as much as you did? The 5p environmental impact levy on single carrier bag use,...
Praise the Lord that summer is finally here! Gone are the days shivering in layers and layers of clothes; gone are the short dark days and the miserable cold weather. It’s time to bring those shorts, skirts and swimming costumes...
Almost everyone will have at some point had an encounter with a wasp in your garden, they normally pop up in the summer months when it is ‘wasp season’ Stinging insects can be the source of huge annoyance during...