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July 2, 2025

Wasp Season in Leicester: What You Need to Know Summer in Leicester brings longer days, warmer weather, and unfortunately, a sharp rise in wasp activity. From garden sheds to loft spaces, wasps are nesting across homes and businesses in places like Oadby, Wigston, Loughborough, and Birstall. If you’re noticing more buzzing around your property, now […]

June 23, 2025

How to Prevent Rodent Infestations in Hospitality Venues The impact that a single rodent sighting can have on a hospitality venue, whether it’s a restaurant, catering service, hotel or leisure facility, is catastrophic. Lack of proper pest control can lead to loss of reputation, and ultimately business, within a matter of hours, thanks to social […]

June 20, 2025

Wasp Control for professional pest controllers has taken a huge blow with the loss of our most effective product in Ficam D. But it’s not about how hard you get hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. Why Was Ficam D Was Withdrawn? Ficam D contained bendiocarb, a highly […]

May 21, 2024

Did you know that over and estimated 1.5 million rat live in UK sewers? This is a terrifying statistic when you think have direct access to the drain pipes of homes around the country. Unfortunately, because of the location of your drainage and sewerage pipes, it’s incredibly rare for you to notice rats in your […]

We were called to this property in Leicester when the owner noticed Pigeons were nesting under their solar panels. All bird nests were quickly removed from under the solar panels. The next task was to thoroughly clean all bird mess from the solar panels and surrounding roof tiles. We also cleared out the gutters. Finally […]

August 16, 2023

A small dig out and repair done this week. The pipe work was broken where it met the gully and rats were burrowing out of this into the hole in the wall left to put the pipe through when it was originally built. A difficult job as there was not enough room between the wall […]

September 28, 2020

Here are two reviews left on our Yell business page by one of our customers around a month apart, it is always good to receive reviews but these were worth sharing. “From taking my call to putting things in place to 1. Try and eliminate present rodent problem 2. Put things in place for prevention. […]

September 25, 2020

Here in Leicester we are still treating a high number of nests on daily basis. Do you have a Wasp nest? If so GC Pest Control Limited are here to help What does it cost to treat a wasp nest? Normally a wasp nest treatment starts at around £50.00 this price could go up depending […]

August 19, 2020

Here at GC Pest Control Limited we offer a variety of options to proof your solar panels to stop birds nesting under them. We have recently done solar panel proofing in Birstall, Evington, Oadby and Loughborough. All our work is carried out to the highest standard and most importantly with no work done that would […]