Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively and brisk start (2010) which is rather surprising given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant infestations reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but this year looks like it will turn out to be a hectic year for flying ant problems.
Frequently ants build their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade food store areas.
However it is at their mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The emergence of several thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrific in the extreme.
A somewhat new pest was especially numerous in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent times and already this March has seen sightings of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these revolting,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and get.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
Many people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different form of pest control
They dine only on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, they eat you!
Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660