Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a relatively early (2010) which is surprising given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rat calls throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already provided some ant calls coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a hectic year for ant calls.
Frequently ants make nests under the floors of houses and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to invade kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at their mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and winged queens which then mate in flight.
The appearance of thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A somewhat new pest was quite numerous in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these insects in substantial numbers.
They have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do great damage to carpets and any fabrics. They can be a difficult and tricky pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, regularly arriving as stowaways in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Often the first reaction of those unfortunates who realise that they have been infested with these horrible,blood-sucking creatures is to destroy the old beds and get.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs not only hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within about five metres of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become rapidly re-infested.
Many 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 hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be further from the truth, they do not need grime, they eat you!
Until the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary new 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 getting rid of wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814