Welcome to the Apest Control Website.

Here you will be able to contact us, ask for advice and find out a little about Apest Control.

Here is a bit or ‘rat’ trivia for you:

· Originally from Asia, the brown rat arrived in Britain around 250 years ago.

· Rats average 40 cm in length.

· Female brown rats can give birth to around 40 babies a year.

· A female rat is ready to breed when she is 11 weeks old and weighs only four ounces.

· Rats need a massive amount of food to survive and they eat the equivalent of a third of their body weight every day.

· The brown rat can carry many diseases, including salmonella.

· Black rats, a brown rat relative, is thought to have been responsible for transmitting the bubonic plague in 14th century Europe.

· Rats are most commonly found near farms, in rubbish dumps and in sewers and they are excellent swimmers.