Pest control in Trafford, Manchester and Cheshire 2011
Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk in 2010 which is somewhat unexpected given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept busy with the usual town centre rodent calls throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen some ant problems coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like being a active year for ant callouts.
Usually ants make their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the annual mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then fly off to mate.
The emergence of many thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be horrific indeed.
A relatively new pest was especially troublesome in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this year has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
Having 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 some fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their come back in the the North West area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Very often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within up to five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.
A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine just on blood which they drink from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with dirty conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary new treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Manchester Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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