Pest and vermin control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively and brisk start this year which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest operatives were kept working 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 calls coming in.
The wet summers of the last few years were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for flying ant callouts.
Frequently ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to visit food store areas.
However it is at their mating time when they are at their most distressing as they produce winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of many thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be traumatic indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite numerous in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest operatives in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent times and already this season has seen reports of these beetles in large quantities.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Those who are involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the the North West area, regularly arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Regularly the initial reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these revolting,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.
This is often an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are quickly re-infested.
Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both a different type of pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty living conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Until the end of April 2010 Cheshire & Manchester Pest Control are giving a 25% 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 affordable re-treatment every 3 years, can be carried out on most buildings subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering 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 0161 930 8814
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