Pest Control Capel Cross

Pest Control in Capel Cross

Capel Cross is a tiny crossroads hamlet near Horsmonden in the Kent Weald, where a few houses and farms sit at the junction of narrow country lanes surrounded by fields and woodland. The area is deeply rural and the farming activity on every side means that rodents are a fact of life. Rats follow the hedgerows and ditches between the crop fields and the buildings around the crossroads and the farm outbuildings and older houses provide the shelter they look for. We carry out rat control in this part of the Weald regularly and the approach is always the same: deal with the rats that are present, find out how they are getting in and make the building harder for them to access in future.

Mice are even more common than rats in most homes around Capel Cross. The fields are full of them and they head for the warmth of houses as soon as the autumn cold sets in. The older buildings here have plenty of potential entry points in their aged walls and foundations and mice will use any gap wider than about six millimetres. Mouse proofing combined with trapping gives the best results in a rural setting like this, because simply trapping will not stop new mice arriving from the fields.

The quiet outbuildings and barns around Capel Cross are prime spots for wasp nests during the summer. Wasps build in undisturbed places and the less often a building is used the more likely it is to end up with a nest. The fruit trees and hedgerow berries in the area provide food for the colonies and by late summer a well-fed wasp nest can contain thousands of insects. We treat nests quickly and safely and we always check for secondary nests nearby that might have gone unnoticed.