Pest control in Bolton, Bury and Radcliffe 2011
February 7, 2012
Pest and vermin control in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire has seen a brisk this year which is surprising given the somewhat cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept occupied with the usual city centre rat infestations during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early part of the year has already seen some ant infestations coming in.
The damp summers of 2008 and 2009 were not to the benefit of the hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants & bees) but 2010 looks like it is going to be a busy year for flying ant callouts.
Often ants build 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 annoying as they create winged males and winged queens which then fly off to mate.
The appearance of thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very prevalant in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to meet these pests until lately but they seemed to appear from nowhere in 2008 and already this March has seen reports of these beetles in unprecedented numbers.
These insects have a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, known as woolly bears devour natural fibres and can do substantial damage to carpets and natural fabrics. They are a difficult and tricky pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are continuing their resurgence in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area, frequently arriving as unwanted guests in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Regularly the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they are infested with these hideous,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and buy new.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just stay in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical and telephone sockets and the new beds become instantly re-infested.
Many people mistake 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 usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not need dirt, they eat you!
Up to April 30th 2010 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a 25% reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
This revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in additional three year chunks by a low cost 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 offering a fixed price for getting rid of wasps nests in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Manchester Pest Control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814