Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a brisk start (2010) which is surprising given the very cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual town centre rodent problems all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant problems reported.
The wet summers of the last few years were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but this year looks like it is going to be a active year for flying ant problems.
Frequently ants build their nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade food store areas.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most troublesome as they produce winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite prevalant in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen sightings of these beetles in large numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within around five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.
Most people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both need a different form of gatley pest control.
They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require grime, they eat you!
Up to the end of April 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 simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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