Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a relatively early this year which is very surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rat infestations throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like being a hectic year for flying ant work.
Regularly ants nest under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The emergence of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be horrific indeed.
A relatively new pest was especially numerous in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial 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 all fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Very often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become instantly 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 syphon from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, they eat you!
Until 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 additional three year chunks by a simple 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 giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
