Farmers across the UK are storing up serious problems for themselves and the industry by failing to maintain sufficiently rigorous rat and mouse controls. This is…
Browsing: Rodents
On 22 September the EU Parliament voted, at First Reading, in favour of the new Biocidal Products Regulation to replace the existing Biocidal Products Directive.…
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…
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…
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…
The rats at the centre of an infestation in a Reading suburb are likely to have the Hampshire/Berkshire resistant gene (L120Q) and there is every chance…
As if a decade of drought and a spate of natural disasters is not enough, Australian farmers are now facing what many call a mouse plague.…