25July2010
Pest control in Rochdale, Oldham, Middleton and Bury 2010
Pest and vermin control in the Liverpool Area has seen a lively start in 2010 which is unexpected given the somewhat colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rat infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant calls reported.
The fairly wet summers of the last few years were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but this year looks like being a busy year for ant work.
Frequently ants make their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to enter food store areas.
However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The emergence of many thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrific in the extreme.
A relatively new pest was especially prevalant in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent times and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Those who ar einvolved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their come back in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and buy new.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs not only stay 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 and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.
Most people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.They both take a different method of gatley pest control.
They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require grime, their food is you!
Until April 30th 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 affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out on most homes subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814