Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a relatively early this year which is surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual town centre rodent problems all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already brought some ant calls coming in.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a active year for flying ant work.
Often ants build 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 the mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The emergence of several thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was especially numerous in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive 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 fifteen feet 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 solely on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need squalor, their food is you!
Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester 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 simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814