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Badger Bother: A Case Study
“It looked like a ploughed field,” says Chas Wilson, remembering the scene that met him one morning, shortly after moving into his new home in rural Scotland. “I’d...
Bed Bugs: A Case Study
When Margie Frazer and her husband – both history-buffs and long-term Anglophiles – emigrated from their Ohio home to settle in rural Oxfordshire, they hoped they’d...
Dealing With a Mice Infestation: A Case Study
If you’re moving into a new house, you generally expect to get vacant possession, but as 70-year-old Elizabeth Watkins found, when she moved into...
Developing an 'Eco-Friendly' Pesticide: A Case Study
From chewing holes in our clothes to devastating important crops, insects cause an incredible amount of damage around the globe, so it’s little...
How I Dealt With a Plague of Slugs: A Case Study
Slugs can be a pretty difficult foe to deal with at the best of times, but add two small children and a dog into the mix and the problem can...
Invaded by Ants: A Case Study
A toddler screams, and mum runs into the kitchen – to find a troupe of hungry ants passing underneath her youngster’s chair and inches away from his dangling bare...
Living With Foxes: A Case Study
Even if you’re quite well disposed towards foxes, when pet rabbits are the love of your seven-year-old’s life, you’re hardly likely to want the canids roaming around...
Memories of a Rat Man: Case Study
“Environmental health operative?” Bill Percox laughs, “nah; not me! It’s all got a bit high falutin’ these days – when I joined I was a ‘council rat man’ as simple...
Organic Pest Control in an Overgrown Garden: Case Study
You know when you take on an overgrown garden that turning the wilderness back into a tidy and attractive outdoor space is going to take a lot of...
Pheromones for Pollution-free Pest Control: A Case Study
India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and the contribution that agriculture makes to it is fast approaching 20 percent of...
Unexpected Benefits of a Wildlife Pond: Case Study
“It’s all Lizzie’s fault”, laughs Carol Mosley, “she was the one who badgered me into having the thing in the first place!”
Lizzie is...
Vine Weevils Tamed With Biological Control: A Case Study
“The first thing we noticed was perfectly healthy-looking plants just collapsing and dying,” recalls Fiona Sparkman. “We thought it was our fault...
