Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively start this year which is very surprising given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rodent calls all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already brought some ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a busy year for flying ant work.
Usually ants build 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 are at their most troublesome as they produce winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The release of thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrific in the extreme.
A somewhat new pest was quite prevalant in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in recent years and already this season has seen sightings of these insects in large numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and some fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Those who are involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This can be an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.
Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both require a different method of pest control.
They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty living conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Lancashire & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% discount on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which we guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be performed in most homes subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the Liverpool Area area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814