Inverness Pest Control

30/06/2024

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Some of you may not know this but we have two companies. One for bees and honey and another for pest control work.

A homeowner in Scotland discovered three colonies of bees living in their ceiling.

15/04/2024

Loft inspection carried out today after reports of an animal bigger than a rat moving around. On conclusion of our investigation we believe it to either be a wolverine or lynx. We will need a battle plan for this guns? 5 men? A few dogs? And possibly some eggs.

11/04/2024

Some people may not know but we don't just do pest control work.......sometimes we fly kites and drive around in old vans.

27/02/2024

Could be a bad year for the wasps. This queen has appeared this morning. Never seen one this early!!

15/02/2024

Not posted anything for a while. Things have been busy with moles recently. Started this field this week. It's about 100 acres and will be used for grazing sheep so the bacteria that comes off the mole hills need to be sorted. Nearby properties mean the gas is not possible so it's down to good old trapping.

12/12/2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-67636215?fbclid=IwAR03d7PxI9hbr1W-AbtEJ2HyHxVbmmlSjieV6w43QPJd3Vs8rn9j9w_K20s

Don't burry your head in the sand leave us deal with your problem before it gets out of control.

A court is told droppings were found next to food on sale and packaging had been partially eaten.

29/11/2023

RIP RATTY!!!

We've spent the last couple of weeks being given the runaround by a rat in a house. I would like to add that the property was clean and tidy dispelling the myth of rats only go to untidy properties 🤔

An established entry point was blocked off and as such the rat made a new one slightly harder to find but again got sealed up.

To make things worse this particular rat had two obvious issues, Neophobia and trap shyness.

Neophobia (from the Greek neos, new and phobein, to fear) is the fear of anything new or unfamiliar. By introducing traps into the environment we triggered Neophobia.

Trap-shy often occurs if a rat has triggered a trap but not been caught or possibly seen another rat being trapped.

If you have a problem and are unsure how to deal with it then please feel free to get in touch.

Andrew
07796952908

17/11/2023

Rat fact

A female rat will have 4-6 litters per year?

Each litter has 6-12 young.

They reach reproductive maturity at 3 months.

Mother rat can become pregnant within hours of giving birth.

Rats don't selective breed meaning they can mate with sibings, parents etc.

1 healthy breeding pair of rats can produce upto 1,000 rats per year.

REMEMBER if you see a rat in daytime, you've got a pretty big problem.

If youf struggling with a rat issue please call 07796952908 to discuss.

10/11/2023

Competition time. Like and share this post and one lucky winner will receive a rat (probably dead) in time for Christmas 🤣🤣.

Well that's another week done. The change of weather has certainly driven the wildlife indoors.

3 New farm contracts started.
2 Existing farms visited.
2 Mouse jobs started
1 New rat job underway.

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31/10/2023

Final visit to a farm today found lots of dead rats and uneaten bait.......job done!

Thought I'd post these pictures of a pumpkin patch in Cromarty instead of the dead 🐀

27/10/2023

Been a long day today. A small hotel up west had closed its doors for a few days due to unwanted non paying guests. After 8 hours to treat 5 bedrooms we are confident these will no longer be freeloading.

I would like to add that the hotel was spotless again disproving the myth bedbugs are only in dirty homes.

01/10/2023

Probably the last one of the season.

This would have been a huge colony at some stage in the last two or three years.

Once we got into this extraction we recovered about 30,000 bees and 25kg of honey. The honey will be fed back to the bees and the wax refined for candle making.

The bees will now be fed and treated for the winter and all being well they will be on the go in the spring.

22/09/2023

Ah Friday!!

The cooler weather has started pushing the wildlife indoors.

Its been another busy week with a few mouse and rat jobs started and finished.

Tip of the week is to hang the wind blown apples back on the trees as they can attract unwanted guests if left on the ground.

Despite it being the weekend we are still here to deal with your pests so please feel free to give us a shout.

15/09/2023

Always nice to get in amongst the bees. The home owner of this property suspected honey was dripping from the ceiling. It was intact larvae burrowing through the plasterboard.

Wax moth had laid eggs in old honey comb. On hatching out the larvae was creating a way out by eating into the plasterboard.

Honey bee extraction is a unique service we provide that other pest control companies don't do.

savethebees

14/09/2023

Over recent months we have been aware of another pest control company using a similar name to ours.

Due to this we have decided to change our name to avoid confusion. We will now be known as

INVERNESS PEST CONTROL

This will not affect us covering the entire Highland and Moray area as we currently do.

26/06/2023

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01/05/2023

So you've got a problem with ants? Off the shelf products have failed but we can sort it 😉

You name it we cure it.

20/04/2023

Any guesses on today's pest?

18/04/2023

Eviction day. Some solar panel proofing done after recent signs of unwanted increased activity.

17/04/2023

Working under licence to manage nesting gulls at Inverness Retail Park this morning. A number of nests removed. Over the coming weeks we will begin placing bird spikes to discourage roosting pigeons.

16/03/2023

A little job today at an Air bnb. A previous visitor brought the matter to the proprietors attention who carried out their own inspection but failed to find anything. Following a full survey a low to moderate infestation was found.

Full steam, hoover and commercial insecticide should be an end to the problem.

As you can see our commercial solution is far stronger and more effective than the off the shelf options.

09/03/2023

One persons rat problem is our pleasure. This was the view to Ullapool today and as you can see it is stunning.

01/02/2023

Got to love a cheeky wee mole job. This house had a rodent issue and just as I left on the second visit I noticed the mole hill. Just like fishing I thought I'd try my hand 1 week later and problem solved.

Moles enjoy nice juicy worms.
They can tunnel up to 12 meters a day/night.
Vibrations can keep them away.
Sonic devices don't work 🤣🤣

26/01/2023

Now that's a first. Just pulled up to start a new rat job when the phone rings.

Hi, Don't suppose you cover Evanton?

Normally get these calls the day after we've been in the area.

20/01/2023

Been another good week of work with

5 New jobs started
16 Mice trapped in 3 houses
2 Commercial Properties Surveyed
2 Flea treatments completed
1 Bed bug treatment completed

If you have a problem don't leave it get out of control and give us a shout.

19/01/2023

A quick check of the traps........ah maybe not then 🤣🤣

12/01/2023

Unwanted visitor trying to find a way in. Nice to get an early heads up to prevent any further investigation by Mr Rat. I've left it some nice sweets under the bucket 😂😂

09/01/2023

Interesting facts out today.

Rats have 5 strains of DNA and mice have 3strains of DNA that enable them to genetically mutate and become resistant to poisons.

This means that over a very short period of time rats and mice can self mutate in order to avoid the effect of poisons. This means your poison in effect becomes food.

Whenever we take on new work we look at ways to prevent the problem before we treat it with poisons being used as a last resort.