Are Bed Bugs Biting You?
Just one of the most hated and least understood pest species identified by civilisation could be the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). What number of us dozed off to rest by night as children with the parting rhyme of our dads and moms in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs probably started to predate on man at around the time when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella largely feed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bed bugs evolved to nourish themselves on human beings when our ancestors started sleeping in bat infested caves.
Up to the production of DDT in the early twentieth century bed bugs were commonplace stowaways in most slum quality homes.
The later years of the 20th century saw pest operatives called out to very few bed bug problems indeed, their presence being largely restricted to budget holiday homes and student housing etc.
A lot of people confuse dust mites, which aren’t visible to the naked, with bed bugs which certainly.
Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, about a few milemetres in size and very swollen after dining on human blood.
Bed bugs usually feed on our blood every week or so, appearing in the early hours of the morning and locating their target by detecting the exhaled CO2 from human breath and when closing in on their target, they sense infra red heat.
Without a suitable human meal to feed on they’ll remain in a period of dormancy for periods of up to 18 months.
The first signs of a bedbug infestation are spots of blood on bedding and on the edges of mattresses and many people can react badly to the bites of these bugs.
The early part of the 21st century has seen bed bug infestations explode everywhere on the earth, the easy use of world travel and economic migration have both been put forward for the resurgence.
What is positive is that they are now making a real resurgence not just in slum quality housing but first class hotels, schools or even hospitals.
One London borough reported a doubling of bed bug reports annually from 1995 to 2001.
One evening away in an infested bed is all it needs, they hitch a ride in your suitcases or bags.
Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on all kinds of transport so a straightforward trip home on an infested tube or train is often sufficient to spread the infestation to your own home.
They are an difficult pest to eradicate as contrary to popular notion they don’t just live in beds. They live in any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping target, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh on flabby people.
They are not a pest that can be successfully tackled by a novice and a pest control professional will definitely be required.
Squirrels in the Attic in Chorley, Preston and Leyland.
The grey squirrel population in North West England has grown over the last twenty years to the extent that they have now become a major pest species dealt with by Squirrels in Attic Pest Control
The grey squirrels which we see in our parks and gardens (Sciurus carolinensis) are not native to the British isles, having been introduced here less than 200 years America and Canada
Like other members of the family Sciuridae, the Grey Squirrel is a hoarder; it staches food away in lots of small caches for subsequent recovery. Some hoards are temporary, especially those made near the site of a sudden surplus of food.
Others are more permanent and are not used until many weeks later. It has been seen that each squirrel makes several thousand caches each year. They have very good spatial memory for the positions of these caches, and use far and near landmarks to locate them. Smell is used once the squirrel is within a short distance of the target.
The nest of the grey squirrel is called a dray (or drey) and it is standard for the female to have two litters per year, each of two to four young..
They can be minor pests in the garden, uprooting bulbs and taking food intended for birds but can be major pests when they come into our houses.
It is increasingly common for Trafford Pest Control to be called out to houses where a nest has been placed in a loft or attic space.
Squirrels are true rodents and as such have teeth which never stop growing; the very word rodent comes from the Latin word rodere which means to gnaw or eat away and this they do very successfully.
It is rare to enter an attic space where a dray has been made and find that they have not chewed electrical wiring, indeed it is estimated that up to 40 percent of fires without an obviously attributable cause may be started by rodents chewing on the wiring.
Unfortunately they can also chew through water-pipes, especially with the recent movement towards plastic piping.
As if that was not enough, many household insurance policies exclude damage caused by rodents so if a squirrel floods your home by eating through a water pipe in the loft you may find yourself without any cover.
Removing Squirrels in Loft needs a professional, not least in as much as the law regarding squirrels is ever changing. You cannot simply obtain a packet of rat poison from your local store and deal with them that way as you would be committing a criminal offence.
Furthermore you cannot trap them and relocate them some distance away, quite apart from the fact that removing a squirrel from the area of its food hoards probably condemn it to death by starvation, it is also a criminal offence under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 under which it is illegal to release a grey squirrel in in the British Isles.
That pertains also to rescuing and/or releasing injured squirrels.
In the majority of cases trapping is the most realistic option and this must be done in a specific manner with routine, timed inspections of the traps.
Trapped squirrels are then humanely dispatched.
If you have a problem with squirrels in Lancashire, Cheshire or Manchester telephone us on 0161 930 8814
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