Pest Control Advice

Food premises

Rats, mice and cockroaches in a Food premises is a serious matter and will require urgent treatment and/or reporting to Environmental Health

Harlequin Ladybirds

The Ladybird Research Group, which is sponsored by DEFRA and based at the University of Cambridge, is carrying out a survey of all Harlequin ladybird sightings in the UK and are monitoring the levels of Harlequin ladybirds coming into this country. However,  neither the Ladybird Research Group nor Babergh District Council are set up to provide pest control or advice on ladybirds.
If you would like to report a sighting, please go the Ladybird Research Group website.

Pest Control Advice

Please refer to the list below for information on the characteristics, behaviour, significance and recommended control measures of specific pests (PDF format): 

• Ant (Black) Control (293Kb),
• Bed Bugs (517Kb),
• Bees, Wasps & Hornets (178Kb),
• Biscuit Beetle (225Kb),
• Carpet, Museum & Fur Beetles (383Kb),
• Cockroaches (524Kb),
• Fleas (513Kb),
• Furniture Beetle (Woodworm) & Wharf Borers (764kb),
• Houseflies (691Kb),
• Larder, Bacon & Hide Beetles (477Kb),
• Pigeons (Feral) (275Kb),
• Psocids (Book Lice) (195Kb),
• Rats & Mice (752Kb),
• Seagulls (340Kb),
• Silverfish, Earwigs, Woodlice & Slugs (292Kb),
• Spider Beetles (166Kb).