The arrival of cooler weather in late September and early October signals us that it is time to pull out the warm sweaters and ready ourselves for the coming winter. However, it also signals insects to start looking for warm, dry quarters for wintering over....

We have been focusing our blog posts on woodworm over the last few weeks. We've done so because autumn is one of two times during the year when we see the most woodworm activity. Spring is the other busy time. A woodworm infestation can...

Autumn is the time of year that we handle a lot of timber treatment in Newbury and surrounding Berkshire. These jobs are most often the result of woodworm that have spent the summer months burrowing into timbers and generally causing havoc. Unfortunately, there is no...

This is the time of year when we begin to see signs of woodworm infestation in Western Europe. Though there are several different species of woodworms, the one seen most often in England is the common furniture beetle. This creature can infest furniture, house timbers,...

There are many different pests in Britain, yet we tend not to think of them unless we see them in our homes. Such is the case with the persistent and cantankerous flour beetle. This little pest is on par with the cockroach in terms of...