Pest Control in the Liverpool Area has seen a lively and brisk start (2010) which is unexpected given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept working with the usual town centre rats and mice problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant infestations coming in.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but this year looks like being a active year for flying ant work.
Usually ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a lot 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 create winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The release of many thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be traumatic in the extreme.
A fairly new pest was quite prevalant in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest operatives in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen sightings of varied carpet beetle in large quantities.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Those who are involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Regularly the initial reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the infested beds and buy new.
This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.
Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both need a different form of pest control.
They dine just on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, they dine on you!
Until the end of April 2010 Cheshire & Manchester Pest Control are giving a twenty-five percent discount on their three year guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which for which we give a guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814