After a successful audit, EWS Pest control has received the IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and KPMB (Keurmerk Plaagdier Management Bedrijven) certificates again this year. The KPMB certificate shows that EWS is a specialized organisation of high quality. EWS Group also meets the requirements of ‘Rat control around buildings and food storage areas’.
Spring is here and it’s starting to get warmer. That’s nice, but it also brings along bother with cluster flies.
Life stages
The cluster fly looks much like a usual fly. The cluster fly is a bit longer. The colour of the fly is brown-grey and its breast is covered in gold hairs. In the different life stages (egg-larvae-pop-adult), the cluster fly changes a lot. The females lay eggs under the ground, these eggs hatch within three days in the summer. After hatching, the larvae actively search for earthworms. Once they found one, they drill a hole in them and eat them from the inside. As soon as the worm died, the larvae will pop under the ground. It is common for cluster flies to have two generations per year, but if it is very hot in summer, they can also have as much as four. Adults feed with the nectar of flowers.
Lifestyle
The cluster fly thanks his name to the fact that they winter in swarms of possibly a thousand flies. They do this in the tops of buildings in covered places, like corners and cracks. In spring, when it’s slowly starting to lighten up and get warmer, the flies awake and are attracted by the light. They will mainly hang around the building they wintered in. After a couple of weeks they leave the building. The cluster flies can be very bothersome, because they are never alone, but always in a swarm. That is why we recommend getting rid of them by a professional in pest control.
Control
Cluster flies are harmless, but they can be very bothersome in big numbers. They sit on windows in swarms for example (because they are attracted by light). EWS Pest control is your professional in fighting the cluster fly. We do this by performing a seams and cracks treatment. This means that, in autumn, we spray an insecticide on every possible entrance in the top of the building. Consequently, flies that are looking for cover and try to get In, will be killed instantly. To prevent any fly from surviving, we always carry out a second treatment in spring. This way, the flies that come out after wintering are also killed.
Would you like to have more information about the control of cluster flies or other kinds of insect nuisance? Don’t hesitate to contact us, or go to: https://www.ews-group.nl/en/pest-control/
Besides our NVPB membership, from now we are also a member of the branch organisation Platform Plaagdierbestrijding Nederland (PLA..N.). This organisation is devoted to the interests of companies that are operating in the field of pest control and wood preservation. Besides that, PLA..N. aims for increasing the quality and professionalising the pest management branch. For more information about PLA..N., you can go: https://www.platformplaagdierbeheersing.nl/ and for insight in our memberships and certifications, go to: https://www.ews-group.nl/over-ons/certificeringen/
More and more companies choose for mice and rat control by means of the smart Xignal trap. What makes this trap so convenient?
Combination with EWS Portal
The Xignal trap is a digital trap. It works best in combination with our EWS Portal. Through LoRa, the status of the trap is directly communicated to the Portal. This way, you can immediately see it when a trap has shut and if there is or isn’t a catch. On the map you can also see which trap in which place has shut.
More information
Would you like to have more information about our Xignal traps? And are you curious about how Xignal can work for your company? Please don’t hesitate to contact us! We are happy to help you. For more information, go to: https://www.ews-group.nl/en/pest-control/xignal-the-ict-solution-for-your-pests-free-environment/
Meet the EWS Portal: a registering, informing and advising platform for (among others) pest management.
The EWS Portal is the tool for optimal pest control and is offered for free besides our familiar services. The portal provides you with an overview of all locations EWS collaborates with you on pest control. Constructional and hygienic advice concerning your specific location are to be found and processed in the EWS Portal.
Log in with a personal account and you have 24/7 access to insight into the rat and mouse traps, insect monitors and fly lamps that are present at your location. History, products, documentation, trends, statistics and our staff in particular make sure that your pest control is of the best quality.
The EWS Portal is the platform that brings our clients and EWS together and that keeps pests controllable.
If you would like to have more information, please click here or contact us!
We recently extended our department wood preservation with fungus clean-up. Fungi and wood harming moulds can cause a lot of damage. Both financially and materially. That is why it is important to tackle and prevent this problem. Besides fungus clean-up we offer wood impregnation, hot air treatment, fumigation and polymer chemical formwork restoration. In doing this, we use the newest techniques.
EWS is going to carry out some nice orders soon, regarding wood preservation and fungus clean-up. Among other things, we are going to treat a wooden roof framework of a farm in Groningen against woodworm. We are going to do this by impregnating with a woodworm killing substance.
We will also do a fungus clean-up in to buildings in Amsterdam. We are going to replace a floor that is infested by fungi and we are going to impregnate a wooden roof to prevent fungi.
Also we will start a project in Haarlem. The floors will be replaced by renovation floors. First we are going to inspect and advice in relation to impairment due to fungi and woodworm. And lastly, we will tackle fungi in Den Haag!
Some nice orders are on their way. Do you also have problems with moist, fungi or mould in wood? Or are you dealing with wood harming insects? Do not hesitate to contact us. Would you like to have more information? Go to: EWS fungus clean-up.
It is getting colder outside and that means mice and rats are looking for shelter in warm buildings. The unwanted rodents are the cause of nuisance. They can cause damage to buildings due to nibbling for example. Besides that, they are a health hazard because of the germs they are carrying. Nuisance can be prevented. There are things that you can do to prevent unwanted visits from happening. We provide you with 3 tips!
Extra tip against rats:
Rats are often hiding in bushes. That is why you should make sure that plants and bushes don’t grow against your home or office building. This way you’re giving rats a hard time entering the building.
Badly ventilated crawl spaces and basements can facilitate the development of wood harming fungi, due to long-term humidity.
This results in a lot of damage, financially and materially. Moreover, fungi and moulds are detrimental to our health. Because of these reasons, it is important to control these fungi and moulds.
EWS Group offers several adequate solutions for this. Want to know more?
Click on our flyer or go to: fungus clean-up.
From 2023, poisonous rodenticides against rats and mice are only allowed to be used by certified professionals like EWS Group. The possibility for individuals to buy and use these rodenticides is dismissed within the new regulations. Rodenticides are only to be used within Integrated Pest Management (IPM) by a professional like EWS Pest Control. These rules apply from 2023 for both in- and outside, and only as a last resort. The reason for this is that rodenticides are poisonous and difficult to degrade, which makes them detrimental for other animals. You can find more information about this in a press release of the Ctgb: https://www.ctgb.nl/actueel/nieuws/2018/10/02/middelen-tegen-ratten-en-muizen-alleen-binnen-ipm-systeem
Spring has started! The temperature is higher; the days are longer and we all are more outside. Also, you can find more and more insects which are awaken from there hibernation.
Examples of these are the cluster flies, French field wasps and garden ants.
Cluster flies:
Cluster flies are found on the in- and outside of buildings during the first warm days of the year, where they hibernated. They will come through the cracks and crevices of the buildings in large numbers, which often may cause inconvenience.
What can you do to reduce the inconvenience by cluster flies to a minimum?
French field wasps:
The French field wasps is a social wasp that increasingly is signaled in the Netherlands.
They have a social life style and live in a nation of mostly less than one hundred individuals.
The big difference between the French field wasps and “lemonade” wasps that we know is that they are having an open nest. Therefore, they are good to observe.
Often they build multiple nests next to each other. The number of nests which is made can be as much as 10 nests within a radius of 5 meters. The French field wasp has a sting and can be stabbing like another wasp’s species.
The Queen of this wasp species, different from other wasp species, are as large as the workers and therefore difficult to distinguish from the rest of the wasps.
What do we advise with wasp’s inconvenience?
We always advise at first to be ensure that the species are named (determined) so that they can successfully be removed.
Garden ants:
The first garden ants are already signaled. This are usually the Black Garden Ants or the Glossy Wood Ants. In their search for food ants can be entering your home or business building. Once the sweetness is found, there will be setting out a track by the workers.
The track, called ant street, will be followed by other workers with all the inconvenience that entails.
What can you do to reduce the inconvenience by ants?
What can EWS Pest control do for you?
EWS is specialized in the use of pest prevention and control. More information or making an appointment? Please contact EWS Pest control 0183 30 12 70 or fill in the form on our website: https://www.ews-group.nl/pest-control/