Posted By admin on May 18, 2012
Pest and vermin control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a brisk start this year which is rather surprising given the relatively cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept busy with the usual town centre rodent calls all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant infestation reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for ant calls.
Usually ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at their mating time when they are at their most annoying as they produce winged queens and males which then fly off to mate.
The release of many thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrific in the extreme.
A somewhat new pest was quite numerous in the the North West area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent years and already this season has seen reports of these insects in unprecedented numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Those who ar einvolved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different method of gatley pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require grime, 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 simple 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 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 details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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