Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the relatively cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rodent infestations throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant problems coming in.
The fairly wet summers of the last few years were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a active year for ant callouts.
Regularly ants make nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest food store areas.
However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The release of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A relatively new pest was quite prevalant in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to come across these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent times and already this season has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Those who work in in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical 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 type of pest control
They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require squalor, they dine on you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary new 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 properties subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660