Pest control in Stockport, Cheadle and Gatley 2010
Pest Control in the North West has seen a lively and brisk this year which is unexpected given the very cold winter of 2009/10.
Pest and vermin operatives were kept busy with the usual city centre rats and mice problems all thoughout the winter of course, but the relatively cold late winter has already seen some ant problems coming in.
The damp 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 ant problems.
Regularly ants make their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to visit kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at mating time when they can be most distressing as they create winged males and queens which then mate in flight.
The emergence of many thousands of these flying ants inside your home can be horrific indeed.
A fairly new pest was especially numerous in the Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area last season, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester to encounter these pests until lately but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of varied carpet beetle in unprecedented numbers.
They 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 any fabrics. They can be a difficult and persistent pest to eradicate.
Bed Bugs are carrying on their return in the the North West area, often arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of returning travellers.
Often the first reaction of unfortunate people who realise that they have been infested with these hideous,blood-sucking insects is to destroy the old beds and purchase.
This is an expensive mistake as despite their name bed bugs don’t just live in beds and in an infested bedroom will be found anywhere within up to five yards of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are instantly 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 take from their sleeping victims. People usually associate bed bugs with unhygienic conditions but nothing could be less accurate, they do not need squalor, they eat you!
Until 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 further three year chunks by a simple re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in 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 Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for further details on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814