Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start this year which is rather surprising given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen some ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of the last few years were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a busy year for flying ant callouts.
Regularly ants build nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most annoying as they release winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The release of many thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrific indeed.
A relatively new pest was quite troublesome in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this year has seen reports of these insects in unprecedented numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the the North West area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and get.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within about five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both need a different type of pest control
They dine only on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require grime, their food is you!
Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660