Pest control in Trafford, Manchester and Cheshire 2010
Pest Control in the North West has seen a relatively early this year which is unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rat calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already brought some ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will be a busy year for ant calls.
Frequently ants make nests 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 the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate on the wing.
The release of thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be horrific indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to encounter these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the the North West area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and get.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within around five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.
Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require squalor, they eat you!
Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% 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 homes subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
