Services for Pest Control
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Pest Control
Services
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Jargon Buster
Areas covered under this Category are as follows:
- Ants
- Bees
- Birds
- Cockroaches
- Emergency
- Flees
- Flies
- Foxes
- Mice/Rats
- Moles
- Moths
- Vermin
- Wasps
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British Pest Control Association - www.bpca.org.uk
National Pest Technicians Association (NPTA) - www.npta.org.uk
- Agrisense BCS
- Sorex
- Exosect
- Pest West
- Bayer
- Streme
A to B
- Alphachloralose: a narcotic drug used for the control of pigeon.
- Ants: there are two types, garden ants and the pharaoh's ants which are light yellow and smaller than the garden ant.
- Attractant: attracts insects or vertebrates, sometimes used in conjunction with a residual pesticide.
- Bait shyness: the tendency for rodents, birds or other pests to avoid poisoned bait.
- Bedbugs: are nocturnal parasitic insects which feed on the blood of humans and other mammals.
- Bird wire: stainless steel wire used as part of a post and wire anti-perching system.
- Bumble-bees: recognised as large furry bees, they are larger and more colourful than honey bees, with rounded abdomens and bumbling flight.
C to D
- Chimney cowl: a steel mesh 'hat' normally installed in a chimney to stop birds roosting and nesting.
- Cloth moth: the adult moth is brownish and has feathered ends to their wings. They feed on woollen clothing, furniture fillings, furs and carpets of natural animal origin.
- Cluster fly: the adult cluster fly is around 6 mm in length, blackish and with fine golden hairs on the thorax. Adults live harmlessly out-of-doors in summer but may enter buildings in autumn to hibernate.
- Desiccants: kills by removing or disrupting the protective, waxy outer coating on the insect's cuticle..
E to F
- Fumigants: gaseous pesticides whose vapours enter the pest's body via inhalation, or in the case of insects, through the spiracles.
- Fumigation: the pesticide used is a gas, vapour or smoke to control or kill pests.
G to H
- Guano: bird excrement.
- Harborage: living areas for pests.
- Honey bees: these are easily distinguished from wasps, being finely banded in orange and brown on the abdomen, with a brown furry thorax, not black and shiny like wasps.
I to J
- Infestation: the presence of pests in large numbers.
- Insecticide: a pesticide used to kill and/or control insects.
K to L
- Larsen trap: a trap used to trap and kill many different species of pest birds.
M to N
- Masonry bees: the colour is similar to the honey bee but they are much smaller. They prefer to make their nests in suitable cavities in buildings and will even excavate soft mortar from brickwork.
- Needle strips: anti-roosting spikes.
- Net: nylon bird netting.
O to P
- Post and wire: describes an anti-perching system normally used for the control of pigeons and gulls.
- Pre-baiting: process of getting rodents accustomed to traps before setting the traps.
- Proofing: the installation of deterrents to protect a surface from pests.
Q to R
- Repellant: repels pests such as insects, mites, ticks, or vertebrate pests.
- Resistance (insects): if a pest population is repeatedly treated with the same insecticide and each new generation of insects has increasingly higher tolerance.
- Rodenticide: a pesticide or any chemical used to kill rodents.
S to T
- Shock track: electric shock used as an anti-perching system.
- Spikes: industry standard anti-roosting spikes.
- Spring wire system: - term used to describe the 'post and wire' anti-perching system.
- Stomach poisons: these are swallowed to kill an insect, bird, or rodent.
- Suspension system: normally refers to a system used to suspend nylon bird netting to/from a building.
- Target species: this describes the species to be controlled as part of a pest control operation.
- Trapping: the use of a cage trap to kill pigeons.
U to V
W to X
- Wasp: there are several species of wasp, but the most plentiful are the common wasp and the German wasp (in the UK).
- Wasp nest: wasps will build a new nest each year, they never re inhabit the nest the following year.
Y to Z