Pest control in Bramhall, Handforth and Stockport 2010
Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a brisk this year which is somewhat surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent problems throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant infestations coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a hectic year for flying ant calls.
Usually ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most annoying as they create winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The release of thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrible indeed.
A relatively new pest was especially prevalant in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to come across these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their resurgence in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Regularly the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t 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 sockets and the new beds will be instantly re-infested.
Many people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine only on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require squalor, they dine on you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent 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 on most properties subject to satisfactory,free
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 further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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