PEST CONTROL
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Just like many eight-year-old boys, Jacob wouldn’t eat fortime a week” is a fiyou lm fanatic, loves spending outdoors and splashing around of in the is favourite saying Paul Bates swimming pool. “Jacob is a sociable little boy. Everyone knows him in Control our local of Cleankill Pest community, he loves it when people come There are more up than to 110,000 us and species have a of chat”Insecticidal says Mum,spraying around window and flies with the largest being 6cmsjoy, door Elaine. “He isaround an absolute has aframes wicked and other entry points can long and the smallest around 0.15mm senseonly of humour and does great bellyflies are inside, control can help.big Once long. Some arelaughs!” more bothersome than be achieved with a range of insecticides others – dependingJacob on thehas season and and electronic Global–Develop-ment Delay, ultra-violet fly machines some carry moremeaning germs than that others. he is significantly delayed in Cleankill. available from his cognitive and physical development. In late summer ifJacob staff inalso top-flhas oor offi theces highest grade of is a specific species of While there are complainingcerebral about flpalsy, ies –severe or your breathing issues, Common cluster fly, there are other loft space is overrun with insects seizures. – it’s species and uncontrollable “He has no of swarming flies which probably cluster independent flies. movement so overwinter. he can’t do anything himself.” Cluster flies such When as Common cluster Jacob was two years old, the of the cluster fly is very much The life cycle fly Pollenia rudisfamily are ‘fiwere eld’ fltold ies –about they their lay local children’son the prevailing weather dependent eggs in the soil and the larvae burrowTree into House, hospice, Chestnut by aand, in this country, two conditions earthworms where they of pupate. As the outreach member the hospital team.a year are usual but, in hot generations weather becomes Thecooler, familythey thenseek soonout booked their first summers, up to four generations per year shelter in nooks overnight and crannies stayin atbuildings the hospice are building near possible. to hibernate inArundel. large numbers. “I don’t Their know what I was favourite places expecting, are roof spaces andmoment lofts Curiously, but the we walked a single house or one building and people livingthrough in houses the country theindoors we were in amazed. a rowWe of similar buildings is often are often plagued withnot swarms cluster could believeofhow much care andyear love after year for this clustering chosen flies in their lofts.was there. It was fantastic. Itphenomenon. was a huge eye-opener, we could see all the Normally, several thousandthere fliesforwill opportunities Jacob. And for us, cluster together – hence the we name it was the first time could sit down and cluster flies. They will infest the relax forusually a very long time.” highest warm pointAsavailable – and this at the hospice, well as short breaks is often the topthe floor of offi cesRuth, or loft family has a Chestnut Tree spaces in people’s homes. House Nurse who visits them at home every month, allowing Jacob to get out Cleankill Pest Control’s Managing Director and about to explore his local community, Paul Bates explains: “As cluster flies don’t breed indoors, controlling them outside is impractical. It’s often impossible to keep flies from entering premises, no matter how well sealed or modern the property is. The flies enter through air vents, breathing points in mortar, roof tiles and even through gaps in modern double glazing.”
With office across the South East in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and in Bristol and Buckinghamshire, Cleankill Pest Control is an award-winning pest control company and was last year named Company of the Year in the British Pest Management Awards. Cleankill is the only pest control company in England to hold the Investors in People Gold accreditation.
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