Pest Control Durrant Green

Pest Control in Durrant Green

Durrant Green is a quiet hamlet near Headcorn in the Kent Low Weald, a handful of properties set among the flat, fertile farmland that stretches across this part of the county. The landscape is open and agricultural, with large fields of wheat, oilseed rape and soft fruit interspersed with the drainage ditches and ancient hedgerows that are characteristic of the Weald. Properties in the hamlet include older Kentish cottages and farmhouses alongside some converted agricultural buildings, all with the spacious gardens and outbuildings that rural living brings. The older buildings, with their weatherboard cladding, brick chimneys and timber frames, develop gaps and cracks with age that mice are experts at finding. A gap of less than two centimetres is all a mouse needs and old buildings are full of openings that size.

The flat, intensively farmed landscape around Durrant Green produces a reliable supply of rodents. Grain crops in particular attract large numbers of field mice and when the combine harvesters roll through in late summer, these mice are suddenly displaced and start looking for alternative food and shelter. Homes and outbuildings in the hamlet are the obvious destination. Rats are present too, mainly along the ditch lines and around farm buildings where spilled grain and stored feed provide year-round food. The flat terrain means there is little natural barrier between farm and home and proofing is the most important line of defence.

In summer, wasp nests appear in the garden sheds, old walls and roof spaces of the hamlet. The warm, undisturbed outbuildings that are part of rural life in Kent are especially attractive to nesting wasps. Our technicians cover the Headcorn area and the wider Low Weald regularly, providing reliable pest control for the scattered hamlets and farms that make up this quietly busy agricultural landscape.