Chris Woodard Pest Control Services

31/03/2025

01/05/2024

Still ongoing, still a public health risk, still little or nothing being done about the issue.

The bug, which is spread by rats can enter the body through even a tiny cut or scratch, or even the lining of the mouth

02/04/2024

Watch the full first episode of Human Footprint here: https://youtu.be/m36E3n7y3mYWhen it comes to NYC, the rat is the undisputed king of the urban jungle — ...

12/11/2023

Mosquito borne zoonosis warning from WHO.

Dengue fever kills one in every 100 patients and kills thousands every year across Asia and South America - but fears are rising it could become endemic in the US due to rising global temperatures

14/09/2023

A public health crisis, coming to the streets in your town anytime soon.

06/08/2023

Well here's a thing.

A very interesting piece on how native predatory species can be used to to combat invasives.

What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before?

17/06/2023

Ending use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides bromadiolone and difenacoum away from buildings   Legal authorisation is being withdrawn for open area and waste dump use for the only two second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) currently allowed to be used that way, bromadiol...

13/06/2023

''Thinking Outside The Box''.
It's time to use other methods.

Local Authorities still have a duty to control public health rodents on their land to be compliant with their legal obligation under The Prevention Of Damage By Pests Act 1949, they are already struggling to achieve proper control on their land with the pest control contractors that have been employed by councils, being heavily reliant on the use of bait boxes containing anti-coagulant rodenticides. There seems to be little concern from those in Environmental Health departments regarding the very real public health issues that exist in the parks where there is a duty to control rats and where there is a very real risk of rodent borne disease.

Most contractors employed by local councils do not have staff who are trained to think 'outside the box', bait box that is, even when rats have reached high numbers and are clearly out of control and not only detrimental to humans but wildlife.

I don't see this problem ever being resolved due to most Local Authority contractors, who have a reliance on anti- coagulant rodenticides and bait boxes, being forward thinking enough and their approach to controlling rats in those places I have mentioned. So the councils will still be in dereliction of duty with the public 'still' at risk from disease.