Pest and vermin control in the North West has seen a lively start in 2010 which is rather surprising given the relatively cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept working with the usual town centre rodent infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant infestations reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like being a busy year for flying ant problems.
Regularly ants build their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to enter food store areas.
However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrible indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite numerous in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen sightings of varied carpet beetle in large numbers.
Having 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 natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.
This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within up to 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 require a different form of gatley pest control.
They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need squalor, their food is you!
Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814