Pest control in Warrington, Knutsford and Lymm, 2011
Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a brisk this year which is somewhat unexpected given the relatively cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rodent infestations throughout the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already seen ant problems reported.
The fairly wet summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like being a busy year for flying ant calls.
Regularly ants build 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 mating time when they can be most troublesome as they produce winged queens and males which then mate on the wing.
The emergence of thousands of these flying ants inside houses can be horrible indeed.
A fairly new pest was very prevalant in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to deal with these pests until recent times but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this season has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to remove.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, often arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Regularly 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 get.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just stay 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 sockets and the new beds will be quickly re-infested.
Most 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 victims. People usually associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Until April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
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For the summer of 2010 Harrier Pest Control are providing a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
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