Pest Control in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire has seen a lively and brisk start this year which is somewhat unexpected given the relatively colder (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat infestations all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant calls reported.
The damp summers of the last few years were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but this year looks like it will be a busy year for ant work.
Frequently ants build their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing an army of foraging ants to infest food store areas.
However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The release of thousands of these winged ants inside homes can be traumatic in the extreme.
A relatively new pest was especially troublesome in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in recent years and already this season has seen sightings of these insects in substantial numbers.
These beetles have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Those who are involved in pest control have noted that Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Often the initial reaction of unlucky people who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the infested beds and get.
This can be an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs not only stay in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.
Many people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both take a different form of pest control.
They dine solely on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, their food is you!
Until the end of April 2010 Stockport & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent discount on their three year guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which for which we give a guarantee for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every 3 years, can be performed in most properties subject to satisfactory free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814