Pest Control in the North West has seen a lively and brisk this year which is very surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual town centre rodent calls during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen ant problems reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like being a active year for flying ant problems.
Regularly ants make their 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 mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrific 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 Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and buy new.
This is an unneccesary error 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 metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine just on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester 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 low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most homes subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814


