Pest Control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a relatively early in 2010 which is somewhat surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rat infestations all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant infestation coming in.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a busy year for ant work.
Often ants make nests under the floors of buildings 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 can be most distressing as they produce winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The release of several thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite troublesome in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these beetles in large numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs not only hide 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 sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.
Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require 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.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most properties subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814


