Pest Control in the North West has seen a brisk (2010) which is very surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant calls reported.
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 be a hectic year for ant problems.
Usually ants make nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrific indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their renaissance in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, regularly arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Very often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.
A lot of people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine only on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require squalor, their food is you!
Up to 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 properties subject to free site survey
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 more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814