• 08 August 2024

    Pests in the press: March to June 2024

    Our regular PPC magazine feature, taking a look at public relations and how BPCA works with the press to educate the public about pest awareness.. More

  • 21 February 2023

    Pests in the press: October to December 2022

    Our regular PPC magazine feature, taking a look at public relations and how BPCA works with the press to educate the public about pest awareness. . More

  • 26 February 2024

    Pests in the press: October to December 2023

    Our regular PPC magazine feature, taking a look at public relations and how BPCA works with the press to educate the public about pest awareness.. More

  • 21 March 2025

    Pests in the press: October to December 2024

    Our regular PPC magazine feature, taking a look at public relations and how BPCA works with the press to educate the public about pest awareness. More

  • 09 November 2021

    Pests in the press: Summer 2021

    Our new regular PPC magazine feature, taking a look at public relations and how BPCA works with the press to educate the public about pest awareness.. More

  • 01 March 2022

    Pests in the press: Winter 2021

    Our regular PPC magazine feature, taking a look at public relations and how BPCA works with the press to educate the public about pest awareness.. More

  • 14 August 2018

    Pests on farms and in grain stores

    As soon as you start to accumulate large amounts of food in one place, pests will always become a problem. We take a look at the pest problems farms and grain stores have and ask what should you expect from your pest controller.. More

  • 13 September 2017

    Pests on holiday

    Do you struggle to leave work at home when you go away on holiday? Rather be doing a bit of pest management than topping up the tan? No, we don’t either. Regardless, we press on... Here are PPC’s top holiday pests you may (or may not) fancy wrestling with while on holiday.. More

  • 01 March 2022

    Pests vs Public health: Animal welfare paper review

    Regular PPC contributor Chris Cagienard, Managing Director of BPCA member Pest Solutions, reviews the paper on the assessment of common rat management methods and related welfare impacts.. More

  • 22 February 2023

    PestScan to give live demos of pest control software at PPC Live

    Press release: Are you ready for the next step in digitising your business? See PestScan at PPC Live this March!. More

  • 06 February 2025

    PestScan's Jan Smits to present AI in pest control seminar at PPC Live 2025

    Press release: Jan Smits will present a seminar at PPC Live in Harrogate on the question of AI and its uses in pest control. . More

  • 04 December 2019

    PestTech 2019 hits the target

    In November BPCA sent a team along to PestTech 2019 at the Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes.. More

  • 13 September 2017

    Pestwatch

    Tips and tricks from the BPCA technical team to see you through the last bit of the year’s pest problems.. More

  • 27 November 2020

    PESTWATCH: Bed bugs - fail to prepare, prepare to fail

    In this PestWatch, BPCA Technical Manager Dee Ward-Thompson takes a look at why bed bugs are so difficult to control and what pest technicians can do to reduce the risk of failed treatments. . More

  • 07 December 2018

    Pestwatch: Cat and dog fleas

    In this in-depth PestWatch analysis, BPCA Field Officer, Natalie Bungay, investigates cat and dog fleas, paying particular attention to the sources of infestations even when a host appears absent.. More

  • 28 May 2019

    PestWatch: Cluster flies

    BPCA Field Officer, Natalie, is back again with some more seasonal pest management advice. This PestWatch we’re taking a look at the tiny cluster fly. . More

  • 04 August 2020

    PESTWATCH: Delusional parasitosis and cable bugs

    In this PestWatch, we take a look at pests that aren’t real. What is delusional parasitosis and how do we deal with it?. More

  • 31 May 2022

    PestWatch: Field mice control

    In this issue of PestWatch, guest author Chris Parmiter from BPCA Consultant Member company Pesttrain clarifies the legal nuances of controlling field mice in the UK.. More

  • 07 March 2019

    PESTWATCH: Foxes

    When is a pest not a pest? In this in-depth PestWatch analysis, BPCA's Natalie Bungay returns to the tricky and occasionally prickly subject of Vulpes vulpes – the red fox. She’ll focus on the whens, whys and ifs of fox control.. More

  • 23 August 2021

    PestWatch: Insects that destroy wood in buildings

    In PPC104, the Property Care Association takes over our usual PestWatch feature with an introduction to wood-destroying insect pests.. More

  • 12 November 2019

    PestWatch: Pharaoh ants

    BPCA Technical Officer, Natalie Bungay, looks at treatments for pharaoh ants and how options have changed over time.. More

  • 10 May 2018

    Pestwatch: Queen wasps

    For our second in-depth PestWatch feature, we are doffing our caps to the most regal of all the species pest controllers are likely to encounter - the queen wasp.. More

  • 25 February 2021

    PestWatch: Rodents and glue boards

    With all eyes on control measures for glue boards, BPCA Technical Officer Natalie Bungay gives PPC102 a glue board refresher.. More

  • 30 August 2018

    PESTWATCH: Secondary infestations from birds

    Continuing PPC’s round of in-depth PestWatch features, Field Officer Natalie Bungay inspects birds’ homes and finds some unwelcome guests within them.. More

  • 01 November 2022

    PestWatch: Ship rats in Britain

    Professor Stephen Harris talks to PPC magazine about establishing the status of ship rats in Britain.. More