Pest control in Chorley, Preston and Leyland 2010
Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start (2010) which is very surprising given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest operatives were kept working with the usual city centre rodent problems during the winter of course, but the relatively cold early spring has already provided some ant calls coming in.
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 turn out to be 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 their mating time when they can be most troublesome as they release winged males and queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of several thousands of these winged ants inside your house can be traumatic indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very numerous in the the North West area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was not common for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to meet these pests until recent times but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and all fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their renaissance in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming holiday makers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these horrible,blood-sucking pests is to destroy the old beds and buy new.
This is an unneccesary mistake as despite their name bed bugs do not just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical sockets and the new beds become quickly re-infested.
A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine solely on blood which they take from their sleeping victims. People often associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not require squalor, their food is you!
Up to the end of April 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional 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 destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814
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