Servicing a large area means that our front line pest control officers are driving over 35,000 miles every year and encounter many hazards. The dash cam footage that was taken from one of our vehicles on the south bound carriageway of the M1 near Leicester is fortunately very rare, but …
Author: Mr Urquhart
I am the owner of Advanced Pest Management Ltd based in Market Drayton, Shropshire.
Advanced Pest Management Ltd specialises in ridding business in Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire of pests in their business premises. We can get rid of birds, rodents, and insects, then proactively control further infection with preventive barriers like mesh screens and flyscreens.
Bee keepers will this year be ushering in the summer months with some trepidation following sightings of the Asian Hornet (Vespa mandarinia) in Gloucestershire and Somerset in the autumn of 2016. The insect which is already well established in main land Europe was spotted in the area of Tetbury and …
Although to most of us we’re still in the thick of winter, six to eight weeks from now the beginning of the ant season will be upon us, and early detection and treatment is by far the best way to tackle the problem. Treatments that are applied late in the …
On behalf of the APM team, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. We hope you have a very happy holiday season and look forward to working with you in 2017.
There are many fly control units on the market ranging from cheap entry level up to units specifically designed for a purpose. Deciding which unit is the most appropriate for your environment is not as simple as it sounds, and we quite often come across units that have been poorly …
Cluster flies are normally associated with the autumn or spring seasons, but with the recent increase in temperatures, the flies have emerged from their dormant state posing a nuisance to home and business owners in areas that should normally be fly free at this time of the year. There are …
It’s that time of year again when those unwanted fury tenants move into places where they are not welcome. Just a few reminders to people out there that there are a few things that you can do to reduce the risk of rodents invading you premises. Keep external doors closed, …
Man has been battling against pests for thousands of years, it is estimated that without the application of control, pests would consume and spoil one third of all the food that we produce and in some countries this would almost certainly result in starvation. Because of the prolific way in …
It is that time of year again. The weather gets hot and muggy and you open up your doors and windows for a bit of fresh air. Once it gets too hot, flying insect pests will enter buildings as they fare no better than we do after it reaches 25 …
The seasonal behaviour of the UK garden ant was once something that could be marked on the calendar, but, with the change in UK weather conditions over the last decade their habits have become less and less predictable. Indeed the annual mating season was usually around the start of August …
Wasp Numbers March of 2012 received a short burst of unusually high temperatures encouraging fertile queens to emerge early from their winter hibernation only to be met with freezing temperatures, this was also accompanied by a very wet season and saw wasp numbers plummet by almost 80% in some areas. …
The video footage was recently taken at two separate locations and clearly demonstrates how attractive our little fury friends find roof voids and loft spaces particularly if they are well insulated providing perfect nesting material. Rat Footage 1 Rat Footage 2 The customer at one of the locations was alerted …
The main cockroaches we have to deal with here in the UK are the following from the Tropics; the Oriental, German and the American. The largest (everything is bigger in America). An African resident the Brown Banded Cockroach is now with us but my team have not yet come across …
The Grey Squirrel (Sciurus Carolinensis) is not native to the UK and was in fact brought over from North America by the rich and wealthy and kept as domestic pets and eventually introduced into the wild, nobody can be certain exactly when this happened, but estimations are between the late …
Vectors of Disease There are over 1,000 different species of flea through out the world and about 60 of these are found in the UK. Like the mosquito, fleas are responsible for the spread of many diseases, some of which have challenged the very survival of certain warm blooded species …
With April fast approaching, the insects that have hidden themselves away during the winter months will soon start to emerge, Bumble Bees are usually one of the first to establish their presence and are often mistaken for wasps. Bumble Bees Bumble Bees play an important part in the pollination of …
It’s That Time of the Year Again! With spring just around the corner ants will soon be on the march seeking out food sources on the inside and outside of buildings. Although ants are not responsible for the spreading of disease in the same way that some crawling insects are, …