GK Pest Control Services

With an extensive knowledge and experience of the pest control industry, we concentrate on providing an elite service to domestic and small to medium enterprise clients, at competitive and affordable prices. We are based in Coupar Angus Perthshire but also provide services across Angus, Aboyne, Ballater and Braemar. We will always strive to provide a first class, professional and cost effective pest control service with consideration to client's needs and the safety of the local environment and wildlife.

Could you recognise a bed bug? Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are parasitic insects that feed on human blood. It is a common misconception that bed bugs are microscopic in size, adult bed bugs are in fact 5 - 7mm long, around the same size and shape as an apple seed. Before a blood meal, the adults are light coloured with a flat, oval body, and become longer, more rounded and reddish brown in colour after a blood meal. Bed bugs go through three main life stages: the egg, which is a white colour measuring around 1mm long; 5 pale nymph stages that range from 1mm to 4.5mm long; and then the fully grown adult.

Could you recognise a Wasp? Wasps (Vespula ssp) are yellow and black in colour, they have elbowed antennae and a constricted abdomen with a painful sting at the end. A wasp's nest is only used once, and then abandoned. The fertilised queen emerges from hibernation in the spring and begins to build a nest from wood foraged from fence posts, garden sheds and tree bark mixed with salvia. The queen will then lay eggs and care for the grubs, feeding them on insects that she has gathered until they are fully developed at approximately 4 weeks of age.