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Commuters on the Purfleet line in Essex were treated to an unusual sight earlier this year. A grey squirrel hopped aboard the train at (appropriately enough) Grays and settled on a seat, leaving the train at the next stop. Which demonstrates that they are inquisitive, intelligent and not afraid to invade human territory. They are

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,

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

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

Below are the the T&C’s regarding our Facebook giveaway:

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

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