Pest control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire 2010
Posted By Connie on March 30, 2011
Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk this year which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already brought some ant calls coming in.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a active year for flying ant problems.
Frequently 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 mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrific indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite numerous in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Very often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these revolting,blood-sucking creatures is to get rid of the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs not only stay in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found everywhere within about fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.
Most people mix up 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 regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, they dine on you!
Until April 30th 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 low cost re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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