Pest control in Trafford, Manchester and Cheshire 2011
Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a relatively early in 2010 which is surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept busy with the usual town centre rats and mice problems all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen some ant calls coming in.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the liking of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for ant work.
Regularly ants build their nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The release of thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite numerous in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in substantial numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance 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 have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay 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 become rapidly re-infested.
Most people mistake bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine just on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, their food is 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 on most homes subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are giving a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814