Outdoor and Garden Pest Control

Outdoors, the pest problem usually comes from the ground itself — water sitting where it should not, grass left long, gaps between paving slabs. Treating a whole garden does not deal with any of that; while the breeding site stays put, the pest is back within weeks. So on gardens, estate grounds, play areas and the grounds of social facilities, we start by finding where the pest is harbouring and where it is breeding.

Mosquito work is mostly water work

Mosquito larvae develop in standing water, and a saucer under a plant pot holds enough of it. In a garden the places that hold it are predictable: gully traps and drain covers, blocked gutters, pot saucers, open water butts, disused tyres, ornamental ponds and leaking irrigation lines.

Emptying or covering those points does more than any treatment aimed at adult mosquitoes. Where water cannot be removed, we treat for larvae instead. For adults we target the shaded shrub bases and wall lines where they rest during the day — not the open lawn.

Ticks sit in long grass and along the edges

Ticks are not in the middle of a mown lawn. They are in long grass, at the base of shrubs and along the transition strips beside paths. Where there are ticks on a site, the first job is cutting back: mowing, clearing the bottom of the shrubs and leaving a clean margin between the play area and the planted ground.

Treatment then goes onto those edge strips. Blanket-treating a lawn uses product for no reason and still misses the ground the ticks are actually on.

Wasp nests and ants in the paving

A wasp nest can be under the eaves, in a roof void, inside a hedge or in the ground. We do not treat one before we have found it, we schedule the work for a time when the area is not in use, and we keep people off the spot for a while afterwards.

Ants nest between paving slabs, along kerb edges and under pots. Spraying the visible trail does nothing to the colony, so we use a bait the workers carry back to the nest. Every product we use is a biocidal product licensed by the Turkish Ministry of Health.

Bees and what is next door

Looking after pollinators is part of doing outdoor work properly. We do not treat plants in flower during the day. We move the work to the hours when bees are not foraging — at dusk or early in the morning — and we treat only the affected area.

Where there is a vegetable bed, a pond or a beehive, the treatment is planned around it, and we leave those areas out of scope where that is the sensible answer. Before we start, we tell you the re-entry interval on the product label and any pre-harvest interval that applies.