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Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a lively start this year which is somewhat surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept occupied with the usual city centre rodent calls during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant problems 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 busy year for flying ant calls.
Often ants build nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.
The release of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A fairly new pest was very prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these horrific,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 not only live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds are quickly re-infested.
Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, they eat you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most homes subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire 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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