After 5 years of operation, PelGar is to cease its operations at Church Farm Training Centre, near Basingstoke. During this time, in addition to being a unique training venue for PCO’s, the facility has been the centre for our insecticide efficacy testing and provided...
Climate change is happening and the question therefore is this; as our climate becomes progressively more uncharacteristic and extreme, what does this mean for us and more specifically what does this mean for the Pest Management industry? To start with a tangent....
Pest control is already on the front line of public health around the world; given the situation we now find ourselves in it could prove even more essential. The closure of schools, pubs, restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions and other public places to enforce...
Pest control is an essential service to public health and pest problems will continue regardless of the increasing human isolation strategies globally. We anticipate that many pests will flourish as a direct result of decreased human activity in and around buildings....
With the back-to-back battering of two storm fronts resulting in widespread flooding across the UK it is appropriate to speculate what effects this will have on British wildlife, both non-pest and pest alike. Commenting on the likely impact of these recent storms,...
From 1st May 2020 all products containing ≥1.0% tetramethrin will be classed as category 2 carcinogens and must carry the H351 statement ‘Suspected of causing cancer’. For PelGar this includes its leading insecticides Cimetrol Super EW and Alphaban Super. However,...
Throughout the world animals and plants are constantly evolving and adapting to the pressures placed on them by their environments. But what happens when the pressures exerted on a population of animals are not natural? What happens when that pressure is us? And...
New rules restricting the use of higher concentration second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides need not prevent professional pest controllers from carrying out their work effectively, reports Alex Wade, Technical Manager at PelGar International. Historically...
The pest control industry has evolved beyond the wanton destruction of pests at all costs. Sandy MacKay, Technical Lead and Alex Wade, Technical Manager at PelGar International, seek to explain what makes an animal a pest, and consider whether there is still a place...
The house mouse (Mus domesticus) was introduced to Australia by the first European settlers during the late 18th century. Its distribution is now widespread throughout the whole of the country, but it is in the key grain growing areas of south eastern Australia where...
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