Best Pest Control Company, Beaver wins Business of the Year
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
by Julia Pittman
We definitely feel like the best pest control company now. After several years of being finalists we finally WON not one but two Wandsworth awards !! Wandsworth Business of the Year 2018 – Winner Wandsworth Best SME 2018 – Winner Wandsworth Employer of the Year 2018 – Commended It was an amazing feeling to stand
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Clothes Moths – Spotted damage to your carpets, furniture or clothing ?
Monday, 17 September 2018
by Julia Pittman
You could have textile pests, Clothes Moths or Carpet Beetle. The most common textile pests are either the Common Clothes Moth (Tineola bisselliella) or Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci.) Common Clothes Moth Common Cothes Moths are a silvery/golden looking moth about 5-6 mm long. Female Clothes Moths tend not to fly and are normally be
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Busy Beavers walking the talk for The British Heart Foundation
Monday, 25 June 2018
by Julia Pittman
On the 12th May 2018 two of our Beavers set out to walk from Staines to Henley, a gruelling 50km. It was a grey and rainy day but Rafal Brymer (Head of the Bird Division) and Marcin Stolarek (Bird team) marched through it. They completed the 50k walk in 9 hours and 55 minutes beating
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Bees or wasps ?
Friday, 11 May 2018
by Julia Pittman
At this time of the year we regularly get calls into the office asking for treatments for bees nests, wasps nest and hornets. Calls for bees nests at this time of the year normally turn out to be honey bee swarms. These swarms are commonly confused with a bees nest because they contain a large
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Mice – How to tell if you have them
Monday, 05 March 2018
by Julia Pittman
Do you think you might have mice in London? Mice tend to come out when it is quiet resulting in them being more active at night. They live for around 12 months, are pregnant for only 3 weeks and a single pair can be responsible for producing hundreds of mice within one year. As they
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How do you know which pest control company to choose?
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
by Julia Pittman
If you are anything like me, knowing who to trust in your business or home is a minefield. Most people seem to go straight to Google nowadays but then the choice is huge. How do you narrow it down? Choosing pest control – Here are our top 5 hints and tips to help you: 1.
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Beaver heroes – not just pest control !
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
by Julia Pittman
Today one of our longest and nicest technicians, Colin Sexton, was going about his normal daily work. He called at a pre-booked residential job to receive no answer. Instead of just leaving he continued to try and contact the resident as he knew the job had been pre-booked and the resident was elderly. Eventually he
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Pigeon problems ? We can help humanely.
Monday, 13 November 2017
by Julia Pittman
Pigeon Problems can be very challenging to resolve; Pigeons and Gulls in particular can easily displace to other areas of a building. As well as this, the latest Wild Birds and Netting Guidance issued by RSPCA puts responsibility on all building managers or owners of properties with netting to set up a system to regularly
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Heard of cable bugs ? Help my office has fleas ! or does it ?
Monday, 18 September 2017
by Julia Pittman
We get calls on a regular basis for offices where people are being bitten by insects. Or are they? Quite often the problem is not fleas or other biting insects but ‘cable bugs’. Although cable bugs are very common they are not widely known about which is why most people automatically think of fleas. What
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