Here’s a disturbing idea you may have come across in fiction; Rat kings. A group of rats with their tails twined together. The idea has sparked several horror novels and short stories. The two most famous are James Herbert’s novel ‘The Rats’, in which a super-intelligent rat king attacks and kills large gatherings of humans, […]
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We hear the same questions every year as our customers encounter unusual behaviour from our native pests. This month, I thought it would be useful to focus on the questions we hear every summer about hornets. We covered the subject of Asian hornets in an earlier post – these are being seen occasionally in the
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HUNTING THE WASPS’ NEST There’s a good reason for staying on the subject of wasps this month. The calls we’ve been receiving suggest that this is the pest causing the majority of problems at the moment. In the previous blog about wasps, I mentioned that finding a wasps’ nest would be a signal for you
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It seems that every day has a celebration – International Women’s Day in March, International Men’s Day in November, World Naked Gardening Day in May (bet you missed that one!). Today I’m going to draw your attention to – World Pest Day! World Pest Day falls on June 6th every year; just as the warm weather
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Colchester is home to numerous commercial businesses both in the retail and industrial sectors, with pest control in high demand. Due to it being one of the largest cities in Essex by population and ever-increasing investment in new retail complexes, our services are always required. Unfortunately, wherever there are people, there are rats, known as
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If you’ve read our previous blog on Asian hornets, you might think we’re repeating ourselves this month. Read on. Wasps may also be black and yellow flying insects, but they are very different creatures to Asian hornets. You won’t appreciate wasps much if they’ve ruined a picnic for you during the recent good weather, but
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We know that times are hard and that the last thing people want to be doing is spending more money on unwanted wasp nests. Unfortunately, wasps don’t discriminate and we know customers that have had up to 15 nests in 1 year! That’s why we’ve decided to freeze our wasp nest removal prices for the
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ASIAN HORNETS Eastern Counties is beginning to get queries about the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina). It’s a relief to know that people are aware of this new threat, because it could be a serious one. The Asian hornet’s natural range is south-east Asia, but a few arrived in France in 2004. Now the species is well-established
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MOLES You can get sentimental about Kenneth Grahame’s classic ‘Wind in the Willows’ if you like. The mole in that book was a gentle and innocent creature, escaping the chore of spring-cleaning his tunnel home to explore the river bank with Ratty and Mr Badger. That’s a great introduction to country wildlife for children. Anyone
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