by admin | Jan 26, 2021 | Covid-19, Landlords, Pest Control, Property Management, Tenants
Rubbish Rodents How’s this for a shocker – you go to drop your rubbish in your wheelie bin and from out of the dark recesses you spot lots of beady eyes staring back at you! This dramatic event is more common than you think, and with scores of hungry winter rats... 
by admin | Jan 9, 2021 | Farming, Pest Control
Note to Farmers – Protect your Precious Straw this Winter! 2020 has been tough for many reasons and a year of great extremes also saw a national shortage of straw with prices going through the roof as a poor summer harvest saw farmers in the North of England competing... 
by admin | Jan 5, 2021 | Covid-19, Landlords, Pest Control, Property Management, Tenants
Lockdown 3 and Pests – what to look out for… So, it’s back! We’re now in the third national lockdown after the government has shut schools and imposed tough restrictions until March in an attempt to gain control over increasing coronavirus infections. In a... 
by admin | Nov 3, 2020 | Covid-19, Landlords, Pest Control, Property Management
Lockdown (part. 2) may once again see the closure of businesses and cut backs to council services. But what have we learnt from the first round, and with that knowledge what should we be doing to protect our properties from rats and mice? During the last period of... 
by admin | Oct 28, 2020 | Pest Control, Property Management
Know your Enemy… an interview with a Norway (Sewer) Rat LANDGUARD (LG): So, finally we get to meet you – one of this country’s, actually the worlds, most feared and disliked pests. You guys not only spread disease, contaminate foodstuffs and cause fires and... 
by admin | Oct 16, 2020 | Non native species, Pest Control, UK Native Species
Red squirrels in Wharfedale! There are two species of squirrel in the UK; red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris and the grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis. UK populations are currently estimated at approximately 140,000 red squirrels and 2.5 million grey squirrels. The Reds... 
by admin | Oct 7, 2020 | Landlords, Pest Control, Property Management, Tenants
STOP-TOBER As we move into the colder months of Autumn it’s not only us who’s feeling the chill. Aware of the shelter and warmth domestic properties offer a range of our rodent counterparts are looking to join us. Rather than waiting for a problem to occur it may be... 
by admin | Sep 30, 2020 | Pest Control
Autumnal Invaders… Looking out the window it’s pretty obvious that Autumn is here in Yorkshire. But as we think of tucking ourselves up and turning on the central heating which other insects and animals are looking to head inside. Wasps Untreated wasps’ nests... 
by admin | Sep 14, 2020 | Pest Control
Need To Remove A Wasp Nest?… Late Summer Wasps – Why you must get ‘em treated! A common line we hear at this time of year goes a little like this – ‘There’s no point getting wasps treated now, they’re gonna all die out soon anyway, aren’t they!?”... 
by admin | Sep 8, 2020 | Pest Control
GOT FLIES? In most people’s opinion the only good place for insects is outdoors! However, as summer progresses, we often experience a variety of these pests making their way indoors through open doors, windows and other less obvious points of ingress. As numbers of...
