Pest Control in Bedale

Bedale is a small market town in the Vale of Mowbray in North Yorkshire, sitting at the point where the flat agricultural plain starts to give way to the rising ground of the Yorkshire Dales. The wide main street, lined with Georgian and older buildings, has the feel of a place that has changed little in generations. The town's position in the heart of farming country is the dominant factor in its pest control needs. Arable fields surround the town on all sides and the seasonal rhythm of planting and harvest directly affects mouse activity. Once the crops are cut and the fields are bare, field mice head for the nearest buildings and the older properties along the High Street and in the streets behind it have plenty of entry points through aged stonework, timber window frames and gaps around utility pipes.

Bedale Beck runs through the town, flowing beneath the main street and through the park before joining the River Swale to the south. This watercourse brings brown rats into the heart of the town and rat activity is most common around the beck corridor, in the gardens that back onto it and in the yards behind the commercial properties along the High Street. The beck also raises ground moisture levels in the properties closest to it, which can attract damp-loving insects and contribute to the conditions that rats favour.

The farming economy means grain stores, livestock buildings and feed stores are close to the town and these act as magnets for rats and mice that then spill over into residential areas. Wasp nests are a regular summer occurrence in the outbuildings, stone walls and roof spaces that characterise a North Yorkshire market town. Our technicians cover Bedale and the surrounding villages of Crakehall, Aiskew, Leeming and the wider Vale of Mowbray.