GALLERY OF PESTS
 House Mice
(Mus domesticus)
Identification.
The House Mice has a shorter tail than other mice, it is very variable in colour being grey, brown or almost black and normally the species has a grey belly. Weight 15g (0.5 Ounces); Length 6cm-9cm head and body, 10cm tails: ears large; eyes small; snout pointed.
Habitat and Breeding.
It Has A Wide Range of habitats all buildings, coalmines to tower blocks, food factories, shops, to abattoirs. Gestation 21 days; weaning three or four weeks; sexual maturity nine to ten weeks; litter size four to 16; Litters Per Year seven to eight; lives nine to 12 months. A Mouse weighs 1g at birth and is the size of baked bean.
Control;
Identify harbourages, effects proofing to door and holes in building fabric. Identify defective access routes via services. Remove attractive foodstuffs, control waste and locate baits to effect control. Contact dust can be applied to ducting and harbourages only when safe to do so. Break Back traps can be sited and sticky boards are often used as a last resort. Bait Shyness and marked behavioural changes are often reported with a bait box and bait shyness.
 German cockroach
Identification:
12mm-15mm, mid brown, with yellow brown thorax having two dark brown stripes. Long antennae. Wings full length in male but 2\3 length in female.
Habitat and breeding:
The insect prefers a warm moist environment, inside tray wash plant, inside switch boxes, motor housing, panel inside machines, fridge motors, conduits etc. The female carries the ootheca and deposits it, nymphs hatch in one to two days, four to eight ootheca are produced each containing 30-40 eggs. There are six to seven nymphal to adulthood. The longevity of insects is 128 days for male and 153 for the female.
Control:
Cockroach traps should be sited to determine the extent and seat of the infestation. Their ability to find harbourages inside catering equipment, inside tray wash/bottle washers and switchgear is well chronicled. To determine infection a night inspection is recommended and insects can be flushed from their harbourages using a pyethroid based aerosol spray can. Treatment should be to wall/ceiling junctions as appropriate with a residual insecticide. Attention should be paid to very small cracks, crevices, broken tiles, poor fitting floor frames, gaps around pipes entering walls and guards on wall corners.
 Oriental cockroach
Identification:
17mm-30mm, dark brown to black very shiny and very flattened, the female has very reduced wing buds and the male wings are longer to almost the end of the abdomen.
Habitat and breeding:
Mainly in heated buildings or dustbin areas waste/compactor areas cellars, boiler houses, ducting and lift shafts. Colonies are often established in drains or services but sometimes in cladding and dead spaces inside processing equipment. Ootheca produced five to ten per female each containing 16/18 eggs, incubation 48-80 days at 20*C to 25*C preferred temp. Nymphal stages seven to ten to adult, life span 60-250 days depending on temperature.
Control:
The use of crawling insect monitors/cockroach traps will help on this initial inspection. Their siting will give an indication to size of the problem. Treat wall/fall junctions and cracks/crevices especially pipe chases with an insecticide to create a barrier. Emergence of immature stages will be controlled on hatching depending on the integrity of the barrier left. Cleaning, washing down and high temperatures will affect the life of the selected pesticide. Voids and known harbourages must be reached with the insecticide formulation with injection equipment. Baits can be used in inaccessible areas but treatment with a wet able powder and emulsion concentrated preparations are more effective with dusts in ducting. Night inspection must be planned-in in a serious infestation and these should be carried out, from midnight to 3am.
 Common Wasp
(Vespula vulgaris L)
Identification:
10mm-20mm, narrow waist, distinctive banding in bright yellow and black, two pairs of membranous wings. Both wasps are very similar to look at.
Breeding:
Queen emerges from hibernation in mid-April, constructs 10-20 chambers and lays eggs in each one, sterile female workers hatch and by late summer the colony reaches 3,000 to 30,000 indevigial. Males and new queens are produced in late summer; males mate with the new queens and then die. The queen wasps in turn fly off to find an over winter hibernation site usually inside buildings or hollow trees.
Control:
Control can be achieved by using the following methods: Proofing Doors, Windows and openings, with screens and curtains as appropriate; cleaning spillage from a delivery point e.g. syrup/sugar from intake pipes in a wall; Locating nests on site and carrying out a treatment with a insecticide formulation; Sitting ultra violet fly killers in corridors and near entrance to catch insects breaching the barriers. Wasps are highly attracted to UV but control should not be attempted with fly killers alone, In Extreme circumstances a fogging or misting treatment can be carried out if found in large numbers and if a knockdown is required.
 Bed Bugs
Identification:
Adult: strongly depressed; oval body; reddish brown; length female: 4mm-8mm; males are slightly smaller. They are normally mahogany red brown but become purple after feeding. They only have small wing buds but have well developed antennae and compound eyes. Their legs are crawled to allow them to climb rough surfaces. Their eggs are slightly curved pearly white and 0.8mm-1.3mm long. They are laid in the hidden areas and cemented to the surface. Three eggs laid per day and approxamently 200 over the life. They have an incomplete metamorphosis; they hatch into nymphs after ten to twenty days. Five moults are normal and one blood feed is needed before each moult.
Habitat and breeding:
Besides furniture, door casings, under windowsills, pictures and posters, under peeling wall paper, in cracks and crevices, in floor boards and skirting boards, in the seams of certain and any other similar places that may harbour infestations. Inspect wardrobes and chest of drawers and dressing tables and treat as necessary. Development rate depends on the temperature and food availability: egg to adult is usually nine to eighteen weeks (depending on the room temperature). This period is shorter during warmer period. They have two to four generations per year. If they have fed then they can survive for up to a year with low temperatures, without feeding.
Control:
The area to be treated clear of people, any bed sheets or soft furnishings removed for clearing. The areas to be treated will include all bed areas in the affected dormitory, any dormitory or bedroom areas adjoining the affected area. There is no need to destroy beds unless they are badly damaged and bed bugs are actually living in the mattress. These should ideally be burnt. Mattresses should all be removed from beds and lightly sprayed, paying special attention to seem and buttons. Bed frames to spray in all cracks and crevices, and all surfaces to be lightly sprayed. All surrounding areas to be treated and any other similar place that may harbour any infestation. Use a pyrethroid spray-can to flush insects from harbour ages. Finally, lightly spray the whole carpet area of the room. All adjoining rooms adjacent to and around the affected bedroom must only be treated along with the hallways or corridors.
 Common Rat
(Rattus Norvegicus)
Identifications.
Colour Generally Brown (May Vary); Weight 150g – 500g (Average 300g); Length 440mm including the tail; Body/ head 200mm-250mm, tail 150mm-200mm.
Habitat;
Burrows Two feet underground (60cm) 80mm diameter hole river/stream banks, farms (especially Pig units, stables, poultry). Can be found in any building but especially cellars and sewers.
Breeding.
Gestation 21 days; Litter three to six per year; litter size seven to eight blind and naked young. Eyes open at 14 days; Breeding is possible throughout the years, 200 young from a single pair possible. Mortality is reduced die to milder winter climates. This rodent is mature at three months old and average life span is nine to 18 months.
Control.
Identify Harbourages, effect proofing to doors and holes in building fabric. Identify defective drains/sewers and possible access via services. Remove Attractive foodstuffs locate baits to effect control. Contract dust can be applied to ducting and harbourages only when safe to do so. Live and break back traps can be sited and sticky boards are sometimes used but are not generally effective for best control.
Pest Control East London
E1 Whitechapel, Stepney, Mile End, E2 Bethnal Green, Shoreditch, E3 Bow, Bromley-by Bow, E4 Chingford, Highams Park, E5 Clapton, E6 East Ham, E7 Forest Gate, Upton Park, E8 Hackney, Dalston, E9 Hackney, Homerton, E10 Leyton, E11 Leytonstone, E12 Manor Park, E13 Plaistow, E14 Poplar, Isle of Dogs, Docklands, E15 Stratford, West Ham, E16 Canning Town, North Woolwich, E17 Walthamstow, E18 South Woodford.
Pest Control North London
 N1 Islington, Barnsbury, Canonbury, N2 East Finchley, N3 Finchley Central, N4 Finsbury Park, Manor House, N5 Highbury, N6 Highgate, N7 Holloway, N8 Hornsey, Crouch End, N9 Lower Edmonton, N10 Muswell Hill, N11 Friern Barnet, New Southgate, N12 North Finchley, Woodside Park, N13 Palmers Green, N14 Southgate, N15 Seven Sisters, N16 Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill, N17 Tottenham, N18 Upper Edmonton
N19 Archway, Tufnell Park, N20 Whetstone, Totteridge, N21 Winchmore Hill, N22 Wood Green, Alexandra Palace, NW1 Regent's Park, Camden Town, NW2 Cricklewood, Neasden, NW3 Hampstead, Swiss Cottage, NW4 Hendon, Brent Cross, NW5 Kentish Town, NW6 West Hampstead, Kilburn, NW7 Mill Hill, NW8 St John's Wood, NW9 Kinsbury, Colindale, NW10 Willesden, Harlesden, Kensal Green, NW11 Golders Green, Hampstead.
Pest Control London
W1 Westminster, Marylebone, Soho, Mayfair, W2 Padington, W3 Acton, W4 Chiswick, W5 Ealing,
W6 Hammersmith, W7 Hanwell, W8 Kensington, W9 Maida Vale, W10 North Kensington, W11 Notting Hill, W12 Shephards Bush, W13 West Ealing, W14 West Kensington.
Pest Control Essex
IG1 Ilford, IG2 Gants Hill, IG3 Seven Kings, IG4 Redbridge, IG5 Clayhall, IG6 Barkingside, IG7 Hainault, IG8 Woodford Green, IG9 Buckhurst Hill, IG10 Loughton, IG11 Barking, RM1 Romford, RM2 Gidea Park, RM3 Harold Wood, RM4 Havering-atte-Bower, RM5 Collier Row, RM6 Chadwell Heath, RM7 Rush Green, RM8 Becontree Heath, RM9 Becontree, RM10 Dagenham, RM11 Emerson Park, RM12 Hornchurch, RM13 Rainham, RM14 Upminster, RM15 South Ockendon, Aveley, DA1 Crayford, DA5 Bexley, DA6 Bexleyheath, DA7 Bexleyheath, DA8 Erith, DA18 Erith, DA14 Sidcup, DA16 Welling, DA17 Belvedere, EN1 Enfield, EN2 Enfield Town, EN3 Ponders End, EN4 Cockfosters, EN5 Barnet, EN6 Potters Bar, South Mimms, EN7 Cheshunt
EN8 Waltham Cross, EN9 Waltham Abbey, EN10 Broxbourne, EN11 Hoddesdon. SS0 Westcliff-on-Sea Prittlewell, SS1 Southchurch, SS2 Southend-on-Sea , SS3 Great Wakering Little Wakering, SS4 Rochford Stambridge, SS5 Hockley, SS6 Rayleigh, SS7 Benfleet, SS8 Canvey Island, SS9 Leigh-on-Sea, SS11 Wickford Runwell, SS12 Wickford Nevendon, SS13 Basildon Felmores, SS14 Basildon Whitmore Way, SS15 Laindon, SS16 Langdon Hills, SS17 Stanford-le-Hope Corringham.
CM0 Southminster Burnham-on-Crouch Tillingham, CM1 Chelmsford, CM2 Great Baddow, CM3 South Woodham Ferrers Little Baddow Danbury Latchingdon, CM4 Ingatestone Fryerning, CM5 Ongar Fyfield, CM6 Dunmow Felsted, CM7 Braintree, CM8 Witham, CM9 Maldon Totham Tolleshunt Major Tollesbury, CM11 Billericay Ramsden Bellhouse, CM12 Billericay, CM13 Brentwood East Horndon Herongate Warley Hutton, CM14 Pilgrims Hatch Coxtie Green, CM15 Shenfield Doddinghurst, CM16 Epping Theydon Bois, CM17 Harlow, CM18 Harlow, CM19 Harlow Roydon, CM20 Harlow, CM21 Sawbridgeworth, CM22 Bishop's Stortford, CM23 Bishop's Stortford, CM24 Stansted
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