Pest control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire 2010
Pest Control in the North West has seen a brisk this year which is surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rat problems throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant calls coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will be a active year for ant callouts.
Frequently ants make nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The release of many thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be traumatic 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 meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Very often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs not only hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds are quickly re-infested.
Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need squalor, they dine on you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most homes subject to satisfactory,free
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 0161 930 8814
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