A Review of Pest Control in Sale, Urmston, Timperley and Altrincham Spring & Summer 2010
Pest and vermin control in Liverpool and Wirral has seen a lively start (2010) which is surprising given the very cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent problems all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant infestation coming in.
The damp summers of the last few years were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a hectic year for ant work.
Often ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at their mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The emergence of many thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrific in the extreme.
A somewhat new pest was quite numerous in the the North West area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent years and already this season has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to remove.
Those who are involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Often the initial reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these horrific,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the infested beds and purchase.
This is often an unneccesary error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
Many people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both take a different form of pest control.
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty living conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, they dine on you!
Until the end of April 2010 Lancashire & Manchester Pest Control are giving a 25% discount on their three year guaranteed ant treatment.
This 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 in most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814