Summer Pests: How to Prevent and Get Rid of Them
Ants, wasps, and other summer pests can ruin your enjoyment of the outdoors, and they can even pose a health risk.
How to Identify a Wasp Nest
Wasps – a real nuisance, especially if you’re enjoying a summer picnic, a drink and food in a pub garden or just general al fresco dining. While this is cause enough for concern, it’s worse when wasps take up residence in or around your property. We offer our top tips for identifying wasp nests and […]
Top Tips for Dealing with Summer Pests
As the sun comes out here in the South West, and the tourists flock to the seaside, it’s not just the people that are swarming around the area. The sun also brings with it some familiar, but not so friendly faces. While we bask in the sunshine in beer gardens, on the beaches, in parks […]
Autumn Pest Checklist
As we head into the autumn, leaving a strange summer behind us, we take a look at what pests you can expect to find in or around your property. Of course, many pests are around all year round but our homes and properties are more likely to become home to unwanted guests at certain times of year. Wasps […]
Wasps, bees, hoverflies and how to tell the difference
As the weather starts to warm up, we start to see insects of the stinging variety appearing. The trouble is it can be difficult to know whether the insect is harmful or not, whether it will sting, how bad the sting will be and if it will sting repeatedly. As Plymouth pest control consultants, we […]
Why do Wasps Sting?
And what to do about it if you are on the painful end of a wasp sting! Wasps buzz around us all from spring to summer and for most of this time, aren’t really a problem. However, come late summer, wasps can become ‘drowsy’ as the heat of the summer begins to fade. And this […]
It’s been a busy summer so far at Falcon Environmental Services
For the pest and bird control team at Falcon, it has been a very busy summer so far. In part this is due to the prolonged spate of hot weather which has had an impact on the amount of Plymouth insects and their nests. Wasp nests, ants, flies and bees are the most common problems […]
Step away from that wasps nest!
The first sign that you might have a Plymouth wasps nest could be the sight of one or more wasps making their way to and from one specific area. You may just see one rogue wasp that has travelled but often if you see a few then there is a nest somewhere near by. it […]
Locating and dealing with your Plymouth wasp nest
It can be tricky to tell if you have a Plymouth wasp nest in your garden but with a little bit of vigilance you can soon discover if you have and where it is located. Don’t ignore it in the hope that it will go away. This is a problem that needs addressing. Signs of […]
Did you know that April is Pest Management month?
Pests are a problem all year round in one form or another but April is the month to celebrate us Plymouth pest control specialists whose job it is to serve local homes and businesses to rid them of unwanted pests. Pests come in all shapes and sizes and while some are more of a concern […]
