Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a relatively early in 2010 which is very surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.

 

 

Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rats and mice problems all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already brought some ant problems coming in.

 

 

The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like being a active year for flying ant work.

 

 

Often ants build their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and cupboards.

 

 

However it is at the mating time when they can be most troublesome as they create winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.

 

 

The release of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.

 

 

A fairly new pest was especially troublesome in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).

 

 

It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in large numbers.

 

 

They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.

 

 

Those involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning travellers.

 

 

Regularly the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these revolting,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.

 

 

This is a costly mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are quickly re-infested.

 

 

Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both a different method of pest control.

 

 

They dine exclusively on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, they dine on you!

 

 

Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Liverpool Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.

 

 

The revolutionary new 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 properties subject to free site survey

 

 

For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for destroying 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