Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start this year which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant calls reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for ant calls.
Usually ants build nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most troublesome as they create winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was especially prevalant in the the North West area last year, 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 appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and get.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different method of pest control.
They dine only on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a 25% 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 homes 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 Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814