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Citation
(1999), "Death Watch Beetle - a rethink", Structural Survey, Vol. 17 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ss.1999.11017aab.006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Death Watch Beetle - a rethink
Death Watch Beetle a rethink
Keywords Buildings, Pest control
If like your Editor you are a regular "Archers" listener you will be aware of the roof infestation at the Pargetter Pile, Lower Loxley House. Listeners will also be aware that the eradication advice being given on the programme is bang up to date. Conventional wisdom which held that beetles did not fly, that reinfestation was almost impossible and that insecticidal treatment was effective, has all been disproved by an international study led by English Heritage and funded by a £750,000 EU grant. The notice of a conference in the autumn to present the results of this study and more environmentally-friendly methods of treatment arrived too late for me to attend. However, I hope to bring you more on this in a later issue (plus something on the termite problem in the south-west of England).