Pest Control in The Merseyside Area has seen a lively and brisk start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Liverpool and Wirral Pest and vermin operatives were kept working with the standard town centre rat infestations all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant infestations reported.
The fairly wet summers of the last few years 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 calls.
Usually ants make their nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to invade food store areas.
However it is at their mating time when they are at their most distressing as they produce winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite prevalant in the Liverpool and Merseyside area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Liverpool and Merseyside to deal with these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to remove.
Those of us who are involved in pest control Liverpool have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the the North West area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.
A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both require a different method of pest control
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require squalor, they eat you!
Up to the end of May 2010 Harrier & Liverpool 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 simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Liverpool Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Liverpool and Wirral area of just forty-four pounds 50p.
Contact Liverpool Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0151 471 8660
