Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a brisk this year which is unexpected given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rat problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant calls coming in.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for flying ant work.
Usually ants build nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.
The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrible indeed.
A fairly new pest was very numerous in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to deal with 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 large numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and get.
This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within around five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone 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 dine only on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary new 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 properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814