It’s becoming a popular tradition in most households - the family going out for the day to a local farm to select pumpkins for the spooky season. As fun as this is, it’s important to be aware of what you may also be bringing back home with you!
It’s time to pack away those bikinis, flip flops and sun hats and get out the rain coats, wellies and fluffy socks. As we bid a fond farewell to summer, our attention now turns to the colder months. It’s a common misconception that, as we go into the colder months, pest activity decreases. Each season poses its own pest problems with different pests being active at different times - autumn does not mean we can become complacent when it comes to pest control. Here are the top five pests you should be looking out for this coming season.
Nuts and berries developing weeks ahead of normal are not the only things signalling the arrival of an early Autumn. Pest controllers are receiving calls about wasps four to five weeks earlier than normal and are finding nests that are much larger than usual for mid July. The early development means that later in the Summer some nests could be extremely large as the Queens will have had time to produce more eggs, resulting in more worker wasps and increasing the risks to anyone disturbing a nest.
Shrieks of horror can be heard across the country as people finally succumb to the Autumn weather and dig out their warm woollies and coveted cashmere. This is when householders discover that while their precious pashminas were stored away they were providing a summer time feast for the dreaded clothes moth or Tineola bisselliella.