Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a lively and brisk start (2010) which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rats and mice problems during the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant problems reported.
The fairly wet summers of the last few years were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but this year looks like being a hectic year for flying ant problems.
Often ants nest 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 mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.
The release of several thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very troublesome in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in the North West to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in large numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those who are 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 stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Very often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the infested beds and get.
This can be an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye. They both take a different form of pest control.
They dine exclusively on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, their food is you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Lancashire & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent discount on their three year guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814