Pest Control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk start in 2010 which is unexpected given the relatively cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rodent problems all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen some ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like being a busy year for ant callouts.
Regularly ants make nests under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to infest food store areas.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The emergence of several thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.
A relatively new pest was very numerous in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen sightings of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to get rid of.
Those who work in in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the the North West area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within about five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
Many people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both take a different method of gatley pest control.
They dine exclusively on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require squalor, they dine on you!
Until the end of April 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 further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing 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 details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814