Pest control Leeds and
throughout Yorkshire
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Direct cleaning provide pest control throughout Leeds,
Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield,
Barnsley and surrounding areas.
Direct Cleaning offer a professional
pest control service tailor maid to suit
your requirements. For immediate
and effective pest control contact direct
cleaning on
0845 803 7766. All
our pest control technicians
are trained to BPCA standards and
are fully insured carrying all necessary risk
assessments and method statements
for all work.
Our
policy on all pest control is to be
discreet, therefore our technicians
will turn up in Vans that aren't
sign written.
Rats
Rats are known to cause structural
damage and spread life-threatening
diseases. They can be found all over
the United Kingdom and are
frequently seen in City Centres.
Rats transmit
disease such as Weil's disease and
murine typhus. They can also spread
Salmonella bacteria, viruses and
parasites such as nematodes and
worms.
Wasps
Wasps can be beneficial insects as
they kill an enormous number of
other ‘pests' e.g. flies,
caterpillars etc. Due to their
high-energy needs, wasps also feed
on nectar from a variety of flowers
and are important pollinators in
gardens and orchards.
They do act as a pest. When
gathering woody material for
nest-building, they can chew and
damage the timbers of both fences
and buildings. They strip the bark
of trees causing die-back of
branches and young shoots and in
late summer they can do significant
damage to fruit crops.
Fleas
A concern with fleas is their
ability to transmit pathogenic micro
organisms. This ability is enhanced
by their promiscuous feeding habits
as they move from one host species
to another. For example, the cat
flea, Ctenocephalides felis, readily
attacks humans, dogs, rats and
foxes. The human flea, Pulex
irritans, can be found on dogs,
rats, pigs, mice, badgers, deer and
foxes.
Infestation by fleas may also cause
severe inflammation of the skin and
intense itching. The potentially
long pupal stage, and the fact that
adult fleas can live without food
for remarkably long periods,
accounts for the fact that people
may enter a house after it has been
unoccupied by humans or pets for
months, yet be rapidly and severely
attacked by fleas.
Fleas most often bite people about
the legs and ankles, and there are
usually 2 or 3 bites in a row. The
bites are felt immediately, but tend
to become increasingly irritating,
and are frequently sore for as much
as a week.
Cockroaches
Cockroaches present one of the most
significant public health risks,
carrying diseases such as dysentery,
gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, typhoid,
poliomyelitis and salmonella.
They are most commonly found in
commercial premises in which food is
produced or handled, such as
restaurants and catering
establishments. However, they are
not uncommon in domestic situations
where they live in kitchens and
drains.
Cockroaches are nocturnal creatures,
which spend the daytime hours hiding
in cracks and crevices around
sources of food and water such as
cookers and sinks. Complex pipe work
systems and underground ducts in
larger buildings can make their
control all the more difficult. Food
contamination occurs when the
cockroach moves from refuse to food
preparation areas. Cockroaches will
eat practically anything from human
food to leather, wallpaper and even
other cockroaches. |
