| ANTS | Lives: walls, lawns, small spaces with moisture Eats: sugary foods Risks: loss of stock, infestation and contamination, painful bites Treatment: Professional assessment of the ant type is crucial for correct treatment |
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| BED BUGS | Lives: in wallpaper cracks, mattresses, and crevices Eats: human blood, oter mammal blood Risks: ill-health, itching, burning welts Treatment: crack and crevice treatment plus residual insecticide |
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| BEETLES | Lives: in warehouses, foodstores and food factories Eats: flour, cereals, bran, litter from chicken houses, meat scraps Risks: disease, food contamination, loss of stock Treatment: broad spectrum industrial insecticides, ULV treatment |
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| BIRDS | Lives: roof spaces, barns and lofts, attics Eats: cereals, seeds, seedlings, crops, grains Risks: loss of stock, reduced yield, nesting damage, disease from droppings Treatment: pest entry prevention, culling programmes |
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| CLUSTER FLIES | Lives: hibernates in walls over winter, lives in roofs and attics Eats: earthworms and waste food |
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| COCKROACHES | Lives: anywhere relatively sheltered, under fridges and freezers, under cupboards Eats: waste food Risks: food contamination, rapid infestations Treatment: integrated approach including traps, gels and residual insecticides |
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| DEER | Lives: in woodland Eats: cereal crops, above ground vegetable crops, nuts Risks: significant loss of crops, fence damage Treatment: effective fencing, humane shooting by military trained marksman |
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| FRUIT/HOUSE FLIES | Lives: anywhere rotting food is present Eats: rotting organic matter Risks: food contamination, disease, significant loss of stock Treatment: treat larval breeding area with professional insecticide, residual insecticides |
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| MICE |
Lives: barns, houses, cellars, warehouses, sheds, outbuildings, anywhere dry and safe Eats: mostly grains and cereals but will gnaw at most things Risks: food contamination, significant loss of stock, damage from gnawing on electrics etc Treatment: traps and baiting with a regular regime of testing and assessment |
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| MOLES |
Lives: in burrows underground Eats: worms and invertebrates Risks: damage to lawned and grassed areas, loss of crops, injuries to stock animals Treatment: trapping, professional gassing, shooting |
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| MOTHS | Lives: in warehouses and foodstores Eats: cereal grains, fruit and nuts Risks: food contamination, significant loss of stock Treatment: ULV for large infestations, professional insecticides, residual insecticides |
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| POULTRY MITES | Lives: cracks and crevices in poultry houses Eats: blood Risks: weak birds, reduced egg numbers, poultry anaemia Treatment: thorough fogging insecticide treatment whilst shed is empty or dessicant spray whilst birds are present. |
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| RABBITS |
Lives: in underground burrows in or near woodland Eats: young vegetation, leafy crops, cereals, Risks: loss of crops, greatly reduced yields, disease Treatment: trapping and professional gassing, ferreting, shooting |
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| RATS | Lives: small enclosed spaces Eats: prefers grains and cereals but will also take eggs and chicks, waste food Risks: serious risk of fatal disease, death to humans and stock animals Treatment: treat nest to kill the queen and remove once all have died |
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| SQUIRRELS |
Lives: in nests in woodland Eats: nuts, seeds and grains Risks: very destructive to property, damage to electrics, Treatment: trapping is most effective |
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| WASPS | Lives: in roofs, lofts, soffits, cracks in walls Eats: waste food, sugary foods, other insects, wood Risks: stinging attacks, swarming, wood damage Treatment: treat nest to kill the queen and remove once all have died. |