Pest Control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk in 2010 which is somewhat surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rat infestations all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant calls coming in.
The wet 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 problems.
Regularly ants nest under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most annoying as they release winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The release of thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was especially numerous in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking insects is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
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 up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not require grime, their food is you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the the North West area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
