Posted by Jenny | Posted in Jenny's Jumble | Posted on 11-05-2012
Pest and vermin control in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire has seen a brisk start this year which is unexpected given the somewhat cold (weather of this last winter|winter of 2009/10}.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual city centre rodent problems all thoughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already brought some ant infestation coming in.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but this year looks like it will be a busy year for flying ant callouts.
Usually ants nest under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a lot of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most distressing as they produce winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The release of several thousands of these flying ants inside your house can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very numerous in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest operatives in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen sightings of these insects in substantial quantities.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Those who are involved in pest control note that Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the the North West area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning holiday makers.
Very often the first reaction of unlucky people who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to burn the infested beds and purchase.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs not only 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 wall sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.
A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which cannot be seen by the naked eye. They both require a different form of pest control.
They dine only on blood which they drink from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with dirty living conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need squalor, their food is you!
Until April 30th 2010 Stockport & Manchester Pest Control are giving a twenty-five percent discount on their guaranteed ant prevention treatment.
This revolutionary new 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 getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
