In their search for food, flies can wreak havoc on businesses, compromising food safety through product contamination and potentially spreading disease. The impact doesn’t end there – fly infestations can tarnish a business’s reputation and undermine audit scores.
While flies pose significant challenges, a comprehensive fly control programme can help businesses regain control over their environment.
What is Comprehensive Fly Control?
Comprehensive fly control integrates fly control products with professional servicing and maintenance for a robust defence strategy. For our UK customers, it encompasses both indoor and outdoor fly control, extending beyond mere installation of fly control devices.
This approach considers the flies biology, lifecycle, and environmental factors contributing to their presence. It is a form of integrated pest management (IPM) that addresses the root causes of infestations and focuses on long-term prevention. At Rentokil, our IPM program is built on four principles: exclusion, restriction, destruction, and monitoring.
- Exclusion: Preventing pests from entering.
- Restriction: Limiting food sources and hiding spots.
- Destruction: Eradicating existing infestations.
- Monitoring: Regularly inspecting premises to prevent small problems from escalating.
Ultimately, complete fly control aims to eliminate existing fly populations and prevent future infestations by combining solutions and servicing to ensure fly control products and practices are always optimal.
Components of Comprehensive Fly Control
- Behavioural Insights: Understanding flies’ lifecycles and biology to inform protection measures.
- Exclusion Methods: Implementing outdoor fly control, proper sanitation, and organic waste disposal to eliminate breeding grounds.
- Restriction and Destruction Solutions: Utilising insect light traps (ILTs) and fly traps supported with approved chemical controls where deemed appropriate and safe to do so
- Regular Monitoring: Conducting consistent inspections to prevent infestations from escalating.
Benefits of Comprehensive Fly Control for Businesses
Enhances Health and Safety: Proactive measures reduce contamination risks and potential health hazards, creating a safer environment for customers and employees.
Protects Business Reputation: An IPM program ensures a pest-free environment, enhancing customer perception and trust, crucial for food and health businesses.
Tailored Fly Control: Technicians consider specific factors for each business, such as the type of fly, tolerance levels, and building characteristics, to create customised programmes.
Potential Cost Savings: Focus on prevention reduces the need for costly reactive pest control interventions.
Comprehensive Fly Control from Pest Control Experts
An extensive fly control programme offers numerous advantages over simply installing products. But where should you start?
Expert Fly Control Solutions
With nearly 100 years of experience, we offer a programme that pairs cutting-edge solutions with expertise from leading entomologists and technicians. Our entomologists stay updated with the latest research and trends, ensuring our solutions are backed by science. Our technicians, trained rigorously, meticulously inspect sites to identify potential fly harbourage areas and develop tailored management plans.
Indoor Fly Control with Lumnia
Our award-winning Lumnia LED insect light trap range provides energy savings of up to 79% and captures flies faster than any other ILT on the market. With an 80% greater reach than fluorescent tubes, it is unmatched in the industry. Our range, from Lumnia Slim, designed for customer facing areas to Lumnia Ultimate, tailored to protect food preparation, storage and processing sites and our Lumnia Suspended, ceiling unit, designed to give multi-directional UV-LED fly control for high-dependency, high risk locations, offers a perfect solution for every environment.
Sustainable Outdoor Fly Control with EcoCatch Fly Traps
EcoCatch fly traps are our sustainable solution for outdoor fly control. Utilising sweet-smelling liquids to attract and trap flies, it is proven to be up to 60% more effective than competitors. Made from over 33% recycled plastic, the unit can be reused almost indefinitely, significantly reducing plastic waste.
Our technicians conduct site surveys to identify strategic locations for EcoCatch fly trap units, install the product, and provide regular servicing to ensure long-term effectiveness.
By combining our expertise with industry-leading products, we offer an unrivalled fly control programme tailored to your business needs, allowing you to focus on your operational priorities with peace of mind.
