Pest control in Manchester, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire 2010
Pest Control in the North West has seen a lively start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the relatively colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual town centre rats and mice calls during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant infestation coming in.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a active year for ant problems.
Usually ants build their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The release of several thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrific in the extreme.
A relatively new pest was especially numerous in the the North West area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent years and already this season has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.
Those who work in in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs not only stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both require a different method of gatley pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, their food is you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814