Pest control in Whitefield, Prestwich and Swinton 2010
Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk this year which is surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat infestations all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant calls reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like being a active year for flying ant callouts.
Frequently ants nest under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at their mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of many thousands of these flying ants inside homes can be horrific indeed.
A fairly 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 Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, regularly arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrific,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and get.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds are rapidly re-infested.
A lot of people confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine exclusively on blood which they take from their sleeping hosts. People often associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require grime, they dine on you!
Until 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 further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most homes subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
