Installing solar panels on your roof is not easy. The initial expense – the uncertainty over the financial gain it might bring over future years – the upheaval while they are being installed. But once the panels are installed on your roof, the hard part is over. Isn’t it? The panels will sit up there […]

Here’s an interesting piece of trivia that might fetch you a point or two in a pub quiz – the collective noun for a flock of parakeets is a ‘pandemonium’. They’ve earned that title, trust me. A parakeet’s call is a loud, high-pitched chee-chee; when a thousand of them get together for a sunset parade

It’s that time of year again – rats are coming in from the cold to spend the winter in your warm house with all that lovely food around. It’s worth reading up about rats to know how to keep them out, because it is easier to exclude them than to evict them. Here’s some of

The blog in June set out to answer a few questions on wasps – the usual pest of the summer. It’s been widely reported over the last few weeks that this seems to be the summer without wasps, thanks to the unusually cold and wet weather. But there is one insect pest that will not

It happens a lot in the summer months. We’re called out to deal with wasps, only to find that the wasps are bees. If you ask anyone to draw a bee, they will probably draw the fuzzy buzzy bumble-bee – ask them to draw a wasp, and they’ll draw a slimmer, sleeker insect, both of

Not all of them. The main species you are likely to notice in Britain are the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) or the German wasp (Vespula germanica). These are the bright yellow and black flying insects with a loud buzz. The queens of these species will have mated last autumn and found a dark and dry

This could be a short blog. What do ants eat? Answer; just about everything. Different species of ants have different favourite foods. There are over 50,000 species of ants that have been identified and named, and there are more species out there yet to be discovered. But from the point of view of our customers

British summer time is here – officially, if not quite weather-wise. I’m looking forward to the days when I can leave your windows open in the evening to let in some cool air. On very rare occasions, a bat may fly in through that open window. If you’ve read my earlier blogs on the subject

I’m sure this situation sounds familiar to you. There’s a fly in the room, buzzing around, taking its time… and you either don’t want to use fly spray or you have something to hand that you think will swat it effectively. It’s a fun game, but one that you can rarely win because the fly

You may have noticed groups of flies on your windows recently, especially if you live in a rural area. I suspect you don’t care which kind of flies they are, but that’s one of the interesting parts of our job; identifying exactly what they are and understanding how to evict them from your home. Given