Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start in 2010 which is surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.

 

 

Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen ant infestations reported.

 

 

The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for ant callouts.

 

 

Often ants build 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 the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged males and queens which then mate in flight.

 

 

The release of thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.

 

 

A fairly new pest was quite troublesome in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

 

 

It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to deal with these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.

 

 

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 all fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.

 

 

Pest Control Manchester report that Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.

 

 

Often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.

 

 

This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.

 

 

Most people mistake 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 often associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require squalor, their food is 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 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 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 Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814