Pest Control in the North West has seen a lively start in 2010 which is surprising given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice problems all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already provided some ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will be a busy year for ant problems.
Regularly ants make their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to enter food store areas.
However it is at mating time when they are at their most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrible in the extreme.
A relatively new pest was especially numerous in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest operatives in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Those who are involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide 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 wall sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
A lot of people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both take a different type of pest control
They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require squalor, they dine on you!
Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Liverpool 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 low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to satisfactory,free
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 more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660