Pest control in Whitefield, Prestwich and Swinton 2010
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 and vermin operatives were kept working with the usual city centre rats and mice infestations throughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen ant infestation reported.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like being a hectic year for flying ant problems.
Frequently ants nest under the floors of homes and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to infest kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most troublesome as they release winged queens and males which then mate in flight.
The release of thousands of these winged ants inside your home can be traumatic indeed.
A relatively new pest was very prevalant in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was unusual for pest controllers in Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire to come across 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 large numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, often arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking insects is to burn the old beds and get.
This is an expensive error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within about five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds will be rapidly re-infested.
Most people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine only on blood which they syphon from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require dirt, their food is you!
Up to the end of April 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 additional three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most properties subject to free site survey
For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
