Pest and vermin control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start this year which is somewhat unexpected given the relatively cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual town centre rodent calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant problems coming in.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a active year for flying ant work.
Regularly ants nest under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the annual mating time when they are at their most troublesome as they create winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The release of many thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite troublesome in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this spring has seen sightings of varied carpet beetle in large 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 can be a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Those who are involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Very often the initial reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and buy new.
This is often an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.
A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye. They both need a different form of pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary living conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, their food is you!
Until the end of April 2010 Cheshire & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their three year guaranteed ant prevention treatment.
The brand new treatment which we guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every 3 years, can be carried out in most properties subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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