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Lancaster City Council's Pest Control Service

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It looks like the #wasp season is finally over now. Here's an interesting location for a nest. Our customer got a shock when they opened the barbecue!

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Quite an unusual job here. Pigeons were nesting inside these air handling units. Nests removed and cleaned up and then entrance holes proofed.

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Tom, our new recruit is getting going now! Here he is tackling his first wasps nest in quite a unique location! #wasps #PestControl

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🐦Today we have fitted some bird spikes to prevent pigeons roosting above dining room doors at a Lancaster school.🐦 The guano was being walked into the dining room which isn't ideal!👎
All sorted now though💪
Access was made so much easier via a MEWP and worth every penny🙂

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It's that time of year again! The wasps nests are growing quickly now. The structure of the nest can be seen here and larval cells. Time to get busy! #wasp #pestcontrol

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This old airbrick took some finding, we had to cut away lots of vegetation to get to it but we knew rats were entering the building nearby. Once found, easily proofed with stainless mesh. Problem solved! #pestcontrol #rats

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We've had a busy year so far with honey bee swarms 🐝 👍
Here are 2 more swarms we have collected with local beekeepers to be rehomed🙂🏠

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Here's an interesting honeybee swarm that had settled on an urn in a courtyard! Bee keeper called and they were safely removed to a new home. Happy bees! #bees #swarm

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Sorry its been a while! Anyhow, we have safely relocated several bumblebee nests this week. These were in a shed being demolished. Safely moved to a new home.

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Some mouse proofing today at an old Lancaster building. Mice will get in gaps of around 6mm so airbricks and damaged pointing will be an easy route in for them. #mice #pestproofing

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Here's our latest #birdproofing job. It's to prevent swallows nesting next breeding season and causing mess and trip hazards in this corridor. There are plenty of more suitable places nearby for them to go when they return.

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Rats will take advantage of any gaps to get into a property. Heres they have found a brick missing and a hole where a pipe used to be. The rubble has excavated by them. Easily solved with some cement and wire mesh. Job sorted! #pestcontrol #RATS

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We are lucky in Lancaster that we don't have many cockroach jobs but this one makes up for it! A very large infestation of German Cockroaches (Blatella Germanica) in a Lancaster house. The speckles on walls are droppings. #roaches #pestcontrol

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This pit has been dug out of a customer's garden. Rats kept appearing in the spot so we suggested digging down to explore. The broken drains have allowed rats to escape the sewers. What the pit was for is a mystery! #Rats #pestcontrol

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An interesting rat job here. Holes appeared in a lawn so we had customer dig down and revealed this old uncapped pipe, allowing rats to escape the sewer. A nice easy fix once it's sealed up. #rats #sewerfaults #pestcontrol

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We recently cleaned and sanitised this cellar following a rat infestation. There are some excellent examples of smear marks on some stuff we took out. #rats #pestcontrol

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Even though he's an old boy now Lemmy the whippet has still got it! Last week he quickly destroyed a nest of 5 rats and today sniffed out 4 dead ones in this cellar. Good lad!

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Another clearance job for the team. This time on a warehouse roof. Gull guano and nesting material blocks drainage galleys and causes flooding. We have our IPAF licence so we are trained to use access equipment.

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It's not all glamorous! This was on behalf of housing, clearing rat infested loft insulation so that the electricians can repair wiring. Nice!

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The wasps nests are dying off now and queens are leaving to hibernate. This shows the size difference between workers and queens.