Pest control in Bolton, Bury and Radcliffe 2011
Pest Control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively start (2010) which is somewhat surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rats and mice calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant calls reported.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will be a hectic year for flying ant callouts.
Often ants build their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.
The appearance of many thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very numerous in the the North West area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recently 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, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of 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 Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere 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.
Most people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine only on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, they eat you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most homes subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814