Pest Information Provided By SM Pest Control Services

Mice - A single female mouse can produce up to 8 litters per year with up to 8/9 new born in a litter. They are mature and can start producing their own from 6 weeks old. Each mouse will average 80 droppings per day. Mice are disease carriers and can cause substantial structural damage and contamination.

Rats - A single female rat can have up to 6 litters a year. Each litter may contain up to 8 young and they are soon mature enough to start reproducing themselves. Rats are very good climbers, and they continuously chew to keep their teeth short so they can feed, with out the chewing their two front teeth can grow to 4 inches in a year. Rats are disease carriers and can cause substantial structural damage and contamination.

Wasps & Bees - Wasp nests can appear almost any where from early summer through to winter, as each day goes by the new grubs are continuously hatching until the queen stops laying the eggs, there can be any thing up to 20,000 wasps in a large nest. Wasps give a very nasty sting that can affect humans to an extent where hospital treatment will be required or worse in some cases. Bees only cause distress to people when a swarm enters their property, chimneys and wall cavities being a favourite place. If the swarm cannot be accessed by a beekeeper to be removed then the swarm can be destroyed professionally.

Moles - Just one mole can cause extensive damage to grass areas and gardens. Whilst they are cleaning out their tunnel systems they are literally excavating the soil and dumping it onto the surface. In time the surface will subside and roots will hang in the tunnel systems unattached until the grass or plants die.

Squirrels - The Grey Squirrel is an excellent climber and they can cause extensive damage to trees and shrubbery, during the autumn/winter months they will seek dry and warm areas to shelter. Roof spaces, lofts, and attics are a favourite location and once in they will build themselves a ‘drey’ from whatever soft materials they can find mostly being insulation or pipe lagging, they love to chew and are very destructive animals that have no problems chewing through alkathene water piping and electrical wiring.

Rabbits - Rabbits can destroy a large area of crops, vegetation, trees, shrubbery and grass areas in a very short time! Once established they are there to stay unless dealt with professionally and promptly. Their breeding cycle is very rapid with average size litters of 6/7 and young females will conceive within a short time after leaving the nest, they are known to carry large amounts of fleas.