Pest and vermin control in the North West has seen a lively start this year which is very surprising given the very cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rats and mice infestations all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already brought some ant infestation coming in.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but this year looks like it will be a busy year for ant callouts.
Regularly ants build nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to invade food store areas.
However it is at mating time when they are at their most distressing as they produce winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The release of many thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrible in the extreme.
A fairly new pest was quite prevalant in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest operatives in the North West to meet these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent years and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in large numbers.
These insects 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 tricky pest to get rid of.
Those who ar einvolved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are instantly re-infested.
Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both require a different method of gatley pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require dirt, they eat you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost 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 getting rid of wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814