Pest control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire 2010
Pest and vermin control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start (2010) which is unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept occupied with the usual city centre rodent infestations during the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestation reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for flying ant calls.
Frequently ants build nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The emergence of several thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A fairly new pest was very prevalant in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to meet these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and buy new.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.
Most people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require dirt, they dine on you!
Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary new 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 on most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving 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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