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Identifier

What is it, and what does it cost?

Twelve pests we are called about in Cardiff: what each looks like, the signs it leaves, how much of a risk it is, the fixed price and what we do. Pick one. Still not sure? Text a photograph to 07700 900 670 and a technician will tell you, usually within the hour.

Bumble bee, bees

Bees

Bumble bee

Low risk
What it looks like
Large, round and fluffy, 15 to 25 mm, black with yellow or white bands, a slow heavy flight.
The signs
A few bees going in and out of a hole in the lawn, a bird box or under the shed; a small nest of a hundred or so that dies off in late summer.
The risk
Rarely stings, does no damage and is an important pollinator; the nest is gone by the autumn.
What we do
We leave them be and tell you how to live with them until the autumn, or move a nest in a bird box if it really cannot stay.
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Questions about the identifier

I am still not sure what it is.

Text a photograph to 07700 900 670, with something for scale if you can, and a technician will tell you, usually within the hour in the day. Droppings photographed next to a coin are the most useful picture you can send.

Can I treat it myself?

Ants, often, with a gel bait from a hardware shop; a few mice, sometimes, with snap traps. Rats, wasps, bed bugs and cockroaches, rarely: the shop products kill the ones you see and leave the nest. We will tell you honestly on the phone if a DIY fix will do.

Why is the bee free?

Because Nia keeps bees, a swarm is a colony she is glad to have, and killing honey bees is something we will not do. It costs us an evening and some petrol.

Does the price ever change?

Not for the jobs on this page. A wasp nest needing a tower, a block of flats with cockroaches in the risers, or a gull roof needing a platform is quoted, and we say so before we come.

Seen something? Ring. Anything else, book a slot.

The 24-hour line is answered by a technician, and the call-out is a fixed price before anyone leaves. For anything that can wait for the morning, the booking form takes two minutes and we reply within the hour in working hours with a two-hour slot. Not sure what it is? The identifier will tell you, and what it costs.