Southampton-based Whelan Pest Prevention got rather a shock when they were called to treat a wasps nest in a local pub. When Sean Whelan arrived it…
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A rat was caught on camera skuttling across the very threshold of 10 Downing Street. Having slipped past the security officers, not to mention the pest…
The recent legal case of the Staffordshire window cleaner who caught, and subsequently drowned, a squirrel he trapped in his own garden has raised a whole…
We have all seen and marvelled at the aerial acrobatics of starlings, flying and wheeling in fantastic numbers. Maybe its the cold weather, but this year…
A Channel 4 programme screened on 28 January featured a Leeds couple who are quite besotted with their family of 25 rats. To the general public,…
The industry has been campaigning to make sticky rodent glue boards a professional use only product. If any further evidence or convincing were needed, look no…
An excellent eight page leaflet has just been produced by the UK Rodenticide Resistance Action Group (RRAG). It details the history of the development of anticoagulant…
A campaigner at the forefront of protecting Northumberlands red squirrel population has deliberately drowned a grey squirrel to test the legal precedent set in the recent…
Make no mistake, vector-borne diseases are on the rise both in terms of the distribution of outbreaks and the seriousness of harm caused. So says medical…
On 8 September the Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD) published a document outlining the procedure which pest control companies and local authorities would need to follow when…