Pest Control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a lively and brisk this year which is somewhat surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual town centre rat calls throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold late winter has already provided some ant infestation reported.
The wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) but 2010 looks like it will be a busy year for ant problems.
Frequently ants make nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of several thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was quite prevalant in the the North West area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in the North West to encounter these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these beetles in substantial numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears can eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the the North West area, frequently arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking pests is to burn the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs do not just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found anywhere within around 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 confuse bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine just on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. 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 April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary 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 on most houses subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are guaranteeing a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814


