Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a lively and brisk start in 2010 which is somewhat surprising given the very colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year 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 is going to be a active year for ant work.
Frequently ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to invade kitchens
and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they are at their most troublesome as they create winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The emergence of thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrific in the extreme.
A somewhat new pest was quite prevalant 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 encounter these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent years and already this year has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and some fabrics.
They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.
Those involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and get.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are quickly re-infested.
Many people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both take a different form of gatley pest control.
They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, they eat 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 further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most homes subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering 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
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