Pest Control in the North West has seen a lively start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept working with the usual city centre rodent problems throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant infestations reported.
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 be a busy year for ant calls.
Usually ants nest 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 the annual mating time when they can be most troublesome as they release winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The emergence of many thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite numerous in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 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 can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both need a different form of pest control.
They dine only on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require grime, they eat you!
Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Liverpool 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 in most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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