Pest control in Manchester, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire 2011
Pest Control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a brisk start this year which is surprising given the relatively cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rat calls throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant infestations reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but this year looks like it will turn out to be a hectic year for flying ant callouts.
Usually ants build their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they are at their most annoying as they create winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of many thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be traumatic indeed.
A relatively new pest was very troublesome in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent years and already this season has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to remove.
Those who ar einvolved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within up to fifteen feet 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 mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different form of gatley pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require dirt, they dine on 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 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 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, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814